DOD Personnel Clearances. Improved Annual Reporting Would Enable More Informed Congressional Oversight

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DOD) industry personnel security clearance program has longstanding delays and backlogs in completing clearance requests and difficulties in accurately projecting its future needs for investigations to be conducted by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). In 2006, Congress mandated that DOD report annually on the future requirements of the program and DOD's efforts to improve it, and that GAO evaluate DOD's first report. Specifically, GAO was required to report on (1) the extent to which the report responds to the issues in the mandate, (2) the number and cost of clearance investigations and adjudications in fiscal years 2000-2006, and (3) the extent to which DOD has developed procedures to estimate future needs, plans to reduce delays and backlogs, and plans to provide funding for the program. To accomplish these objectives, GAO obtained and reviewed laws, executive orders, policies, reports, and other documents related to the security clearance process and interviewed officials from a range of government offices concerned with the clearance process.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA476916

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Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

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Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Business Administration
  • Clearances
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Mail
  • Financial Management
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Administration
  • United States
  • United States Government

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