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GAO-06-693R 1 (2006-06-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaamwy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: im Am,GA 0 T E IAccountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 June 14, 2006 The Honorable George V. Voinovich Chairman Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate Subject: DOD Personnel Clearances: Questions and Answers for the Record Following the Second in a Series of Hearings on Fixing the Security Clearance Process On November 9, 2005, I testified before your subcommittee at a hearing on Access Delayed: Fixing the Security Clearance Process, Part II. This letter responds to three questions for the record that you posed. The questions and my responses follow. 1. What steps will GAO take to ensure that OPM, OMB, and the federal Intelligence Community are meeting the goals and objectives outlined in the OPM security clearance strategic plan? We will continue to assess and monitor the Department of Defense's (DOD) personnel security clearance program, including DOD's progress in meeting the goals and objectives outlined in the governmentwide plan. At this time, we have no ongoing or future work that would assess whether the federal intelligence community is meeting the goals and objectives of the government's plan.' We are currently reviewing the timeliness and completeness of DOD's and the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) processes used to determine whether industry personnel are eligible to hold a top secret clearance. We will report that information to your subcommittee this fall. Also, our standard steps of monitoring programs on our high- risk list require that we evaluate the progress that agencies make toward being removed from GAO's high-risk list. Finally, we continuously monitor our recommendations to agencies to determine whether active steps are being taken to overcome program deficiencies. 'For us to undertake such work would require the sponsorship of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence or the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. While we have the authority to do such work, we lack the cooperation we need to get our job done in that area. As a result, unless and until we receive such cooperation, and given GAO's limited recourse, we will continue our long- standing policy of not doing work that relates directly to intelligence matters unless requested to do so by one of the select intelligence committees. GAO-06-693R Security Clearances

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