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GAO-25-108078 1 (May 1, 2025)

handle is hein.gao/prtyonrmm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: c rAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 1, 2025 The Honorable Tulsi Gabbard Director of National Intelligence Office of the Director of National Intelligence Washington, D.C. 20511 Priority Open Recommendations: Office of the Director of National Intelligence Dear Director Gabbard: Congratulations on your appointment. The purpose of this letter is to call your personal attention to three areas based on GAO's past work and 14 open priority recommendations.1 Additionally, there are 31 other open GAO recommendations that we will continue to work with your staff to address. We are highlighting the following areas that warrant your timely and focused attention as you consider mission and staffing needs. Specifically: Personnel Vetting Risks. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has not fully addressed all priority recommendations related to the security clearance process. We have made recommendations to improve ODNI's oversight of reciprocity and use of performance measures.2 For example, related to reciprocity, we found that the data collected by ODNI are not sufficiently reliable to determine the extent to which agencies have granted security clearance reciprocity. In addition, 22 of the 31 agencies GAO surveyed in 2024 stated that incomplete and inaccurate information in information technology (IT) systems was the most significant reciprocity challenge they faced. We recommended that the Director of National Intelligence (1) follow best practices for evaluating the reliability of agency-submitted data and (2) implement a plan to ensure that IT systems contain complete and accurate information required to make security clearance reciprocity determinations. By taking these actions, ODNI would likely improve reciprocity rates. This will enable agencies to access personnel with needed skills more quickly and help those agencies achieve their missions. Addressing these personnel vetting-related recommendations is imperative to improving the government-wide personnel security clearance process, which has been on GAO's High-Risk List since 2018. We added this issue, in part, because of delays in the process. In subsequent updates, we have provided information on the extent to which agencies are meeting timeliness 1GAO considers a recommendation to be a priority if, when implemented, it may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2Due to the sensitive nature of the recommendation related to ODNI's use of performance measures for the security clearance process, additional details are in the classified enclosure to this letter. GAO-25-108078 ODNI Priority Recommendations Page 1

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