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Delayed Security Clearance Reforms Could Increase Costs for Agencies

Delayed Security Clearance Reforms Could Increase Costs for Agencies

November 23, 2017

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Intelligence officials are still far behind in perfecting a system to continuously evaluate security clearance holders by scanning public records rather than relying on rigorous re-clearance investigations every five or 10 years, a congressional watchdog found.

In October 2016, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence launched an initiative to phase in continuous evaluation across federal agencies, which would allow investigators to run background checks more efficiently on current security clearance holders.

More than a year later, ODNI has yet to create a plan to implement, monitor and measure the success of the program, and hasn’t even determined what the key parts of continuous evaluation should be, according to the Government Accountability Office.

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