United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2008-02-27 monographic deposited born digital 21 p. GA 1.13:GAO-08-352T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-352T P0b002ee18039cd81 f:d08352t DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-352T machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-352T GAO-08-352T Eligibility determinations Interagency relations Personnel qualifications Personnel security clearance programs Personnel security policies Policy evaluation Program evaluation Reporting requirements Security clearance backlogs Security clearances Program goals or objectives GAO High Risk Series Testimony A81109 In 2004, Congress passed the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act to reform security clearance processes. Much of GAO's experience in evaluating personnel security clearance processes over the decades has consisted of examining the Department of Defense's (DOD) program, which maintains about 2.5 million clearances on servicemembers, DOD civilian employees, legislative branch employees, and industry personnel working for DOD and 23 other federal agencies. Long-standing delays in processing applications--and other problems in DOD's clearance program--led GAO to designate it a high-risk area in 2005. GAO also has documented clearance-related problems in other agencies. For this hearing, GAO was asked to identify key factors that could be applied in personnel security clearance reform efforts. To identify key factors, GAO drew upon its past reports and institutional knowledge. For those reports, GAO reviewed laws, executive orders, policies, reports, and other documentation related to the security clearance process; examined samples of cases of personnel granted top secret eligibility; compared documentation in those sampled cases against federal standards; and interviewed a range of cognizant government officials. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-352T/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-352T.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-352T/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-352T.pdf GAO-08-352T https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-08-352T Testimony GAO-08-352T; Personnel Clearances: Key Factors to Consider in Efforts to Reform Security Clearance Processes; Eligibility determinations Interagency relations Personnel qualifications Personnel security clearance programs Personnel security policies Policy evaluation Program evaluation Reporting requirements Security clearance backlogs Security clearances Program goals or objectives GAO High Risk Series Volume 120 Page 1184 120 Stat. 1184 Public Law 108-458 Public Law 109-347 Public Law 109-364