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GAO-06-323R 1 (2006-01-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaszl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SpGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 January 17, 2006 The Honorable George V. Voinovich Chairman The Honorable Daniel K. Akaka Ranking Minority Member 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: Questions for the Record Related to DOD's Personnel Security Clearance Program and the Government Plan for Improving the 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 Senator Daniel K. Akaka posed. The questions and my responses follow. 1. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) in testimony before this Subcommittee in September 2004 and June 2005, indicated that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) continues to use its investigations contractor to conduct personnel security clearance investigations for the contractor's employees even though GAO raised an internal control concern about this practice during its 1996 review. Would you please elaborate on these concerns, and describe whether you believe OPM has taken sufficient steps to addressing the internal control and quality- control problems identified by GAO? Although we have evidence that OPM has not taken steps to correct the cited internal control weakness that we identified nearly a decade ago, conclusions about the sufficiency of OPM's specific quality control procedures must wait until we complete other work requested by this subcommittee and others. When OPM was privatizing its investigative function in 1996, we identified an internal control concern-OPM's investigations contractor was conducting personnel security clearance investigations GAO-06-323R DOD Security Clearances

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