Download or read book Faster Processing of DOD Personnel Security Clearances Could Avoid Millions in Losses written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Faster Processing of DoD Personnel Security Clearances Could Avoid Millions in Losses written by GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON DC GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIV. and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security clearance requests for DOD and industry personnel have increased substantially since 1978 without a corresponding increase in DOD and FBI personnel who investigate and process the requests. Processing delays--some averaging 220 days-are costly and could weaken national security. Based on an industry study, GAO estimates that 1982 productivity losses could cost the Government as much as $920 million--$340 million for industry and $580 million for DOD. This report recommends that prompt action be taken to hire additional personnel and that FBI automation efforts be expedited. (Author).

Download or read book Faster Processing of DOD Personnel Security Clearances Could Avoid Millions in Losses written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a continuing review, GAO reported on the delays in the processing of security clearances for the Department of Defense (DOD) and contractor personnel. In accordance with Executive Order 12065, national security information is classified at three levels--top secret, secret, and confidential. To obtain a clearance, several types of investigations are necessary. These include a background investigation and a national agency check which includes an examination of criminal and security files at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other Federal agencies. Requests for security clearances increased approximately 18 percent between 1978 and 1980, and estimates for 1981 and subsequent years show a continuing increase. Although DOD standards for processing requests for background investigations and national agency checks are 90 and 30 days, respectively, as of May 1981, industry requests for clearances were taking an average of 220 and 103 days, respectively. GAO estimated that the delays in processing DOD requests could cost about $580 million in 1982. Furthermore, in July 1981, the Secretary of Defense was notified that clearance delays resulted in costly slippage in initiation or schedules of classified contracts and some degradation of operational readiness. The urgency of some of the programs and the extensive delays in obtaining clearances have forced DOD to issue an increasing number of interim clearances. These clearances are followed at a later date by background investigations and national agency checks. Some interim clearances have been revoked because the subsequent investigations disclosed derogatory information. GAO believes that the increase in the use of interim clearances increases the risks to national security. The size of the Defense Investigative Service, which performs investigations required for top secret and secret clearances, has not kept pace with the increase in clearance requests. GAO believes that additional investigators and support staff are needed to reduce the time involved in obtaining a clearance.

Download or read book Faster Processing of DOD Personnel Security Clearances Could Avoid Millions in Losses written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government Operations written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a continuing review, GAO reported on the delays in the processing of security clearances for the Department of Defense (DOD) and contractor personnel. In accordance with Executive Order 12065, national security information is classified at three levels--top secret, secret, and confidential. To obtain a clearance, several types of investigations are necessary. These include a background investigation and a national agency check which includes an examination of criminal and security files at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other Federal agencies.

Download or read book DOD personnel clearances DOD needs to overcome impediments to eliminating backlog and determining its size report to the Ranking Minority Member Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Federal Government Security Clearance Programs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book GAO Documents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.

Download or read book Federal Evaluations written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.

Download or read book Federal Program Evaluations written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.

Download or read book DoD Personnel Clearances Additional OMB Actions Are Needed to Improve the Security Clearance Process written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our independent analysis of timeliness data showed that industry personnel contracted to work for the federal government waited more than one year on average to receive top secret clearances, longer than OPM-produced statistics would suggest. Our analysis of 2,259 cases for industry personnel who were granted top secret clearance eligibility in January and February 2006 had an average of 446 days for an initial clearance and 545 days for a clearance update. While OMB has issued a goal that the application-submission phase of the clearance process will take no longer than 14 days by December 17, 2006, this phase took an average of 111 days. OPM s current procedures for measuring application submission timeliness do not fully capture all of the time in the application process that starts when the application form is submitted by the facility security officer to the federal government. Inaccurate data that the employee provided in the application, multiple reviews of the application, and manual entry of some application forms are some of the causes for the extended application-submission phase. In addition, our analyses showed that OPM took an average of 286 days to complete the initial investigations for top secret clearances, well in excess of the 180-day goal (no goal is given for clearance update investigations) specified in the government wide plan for improving the clearance process. Factors contributing to the slowness of completing the investigation phase include an inexperienced investigative workforce that has not reached its full performance level; and problems accessing national, state, and local records.

Download or read book A Bibliography of Documents Issued by the GAO on Matters Related to ADP IRM Telecommunications written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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