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GAO-08-965R 1 (2008-07-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawxb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 14, 2008 The Honorable Daniel K. Akaka Chairman The Honorable George V. Voinovich Ranking 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: Personnel Clearances: Questions for the Record Regarding Security Clearance Reform On May 22, 2008, I testified before your subcommittee at a hearing on Security Clearance Reform.' This letter responds to three questions for the record you posed. Your questions and my responses follow. 1. Your testimony indicates that a greater emphasis on quality throughout the clearance process could promote reciprocity. Have you noted any efforts in the Joint Reform Team report to address the quality of investigative and adjudicative work and if not, can you suggest some steps that might be taken? Through our reports and testimonies, we have emphasized a need to build more quality and quality monitoring into the clearance process. For example, in our September 2006 report,2 we identified concerns about quality in the personnel security clearance process and noted that the lack of full reciprocity of clearances- when a security clearance granted by one agency is accepted by another agency-is an outgrowth of agencies' concerns that other agencies may have granted clearances based on inadequate investigations and adjudications. As I noted in my May 22, 2008, testimony, we believe quality metrics should be applied throughout all six phases of the security clearance process (i.e., requirements setting, application submission, investigation, adjudication, appeal, and clearance updating). In addition, we have initiated discussions with the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of 'GAO, Personnel Clearances: Key Factors for Reforming the Security Clearance Process, (GAO-0877T (Washington, D.C.: May 22, 2008). 2GAO, DOD Personnel Clearances: Additional OMB Actions Are Needed to Improve the Security Clearance Process, G AO0 -0I 070 (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 28, 2006). GAO-08-965R Personnel Clearances Page I

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