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UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D.C.204
GEN]RAL GOVERNMENr
May 18, 1983
The Honorable John F. Lehman
The Secretary of the Navy
Dear Mr. Secretary:
Subject: Need for Ce.itral Adjudication Facility for
Security Clearances for Navy Personnel
(GAO/GGD-83-66)
In October 1981, we began the survey phase of an evaluation
of the Department of Defenue's (DOD) Personnel Security Program
under assignment code 009709. Shortly thereafter, we learned of
two similar reviews underway by the Defense Audit Service and a
Select Panel of top Department officials. Consequently, we sus-
pended our survey for 6 months.
We have now completed our survey and the results support
previous recommendations that the Navy centralize its adjudica-
tion of security clearances for military and civilian personnel.
Although the Navy has maintained a centralized adjudication
facility for civilian personnel for many years and for special
intelligence accesses for both military and civilian personnel,
about 3,000 commands have been authorized to adjudicate the
security clearances for military personnel. We visited 11 of
these commands in California, Maryland, and Virginia. During
these visits we found that (1) the range in rank or grade level
of the individuals adjudicating cases varied widely, (2) formal
training and security experience were lacking, and (3) the
clearance review and verification procedures were inconsistent.
ABSENCE OF CENTRAL ADJUDICATION
FACILITY NOT JUSTIFIED
Before suspension of our survey, we had noted that the Navy
did not have a central adjudication facility for security clear-
ances for military personnel, except with respect to the adjudi-
cation of the special accesses required for sensitive compart-
mented information. We further noted that DOD Regulation
5200.2-R, Personnel Security Program, required the head of
each component, to the extent practicable., to establish a single
central adjudication facility.
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