The NCUA will establish a new office focused solely on agencysecurity and continuity, Public Affairs Specialist John Fairbankstold Credit Union Times.

“We anticipate naming a director of the office in the nearfuture,” he said.

The announcement was in response to questions about examiner safety, prompted after court documents revealed NCUAemployees discovered 10,000 rounds of ammunition and semi-automaticweapons in a storage room when they seized the $23.6 million TaupaLithuanian Credit Union in Cleveland earlier this year.

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