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Agencies have a long way to go to fix security clearance problems, GAO says

Agencies have a long way to go to fix security clearance problems, GAO says

December 13, 2017

Via: FCW
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A new GAO audit has found that many federal agencies have yet to implement years-old recommendations to reform and speed up their security clearance processes.

The report covers the time period between 2012 and 2016 and examines the progress made by executive branch agencies in reforming their security clearance processes, whether they met established timeliness objectives and the extent to which the recently established National Bureau of Background Investigations has helped to streamline the process.

GAO found that agencies had made some progress in reforming their clearance practices, such as incorporating polygraphs and social media as part of their investigative processes, shared services around electronic filing of background documents and a single, common set of adjudicative criteria.

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