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Security clearance program "in trouble:" GAO.(clearance)
Set-Aside Alert, July, 2005
A top Government Accountability Office investigator says there will be no quick fix for the huge backlog of applications for security clearances.
"This is a program in trouble," GAO's director of defense capabilities and management, Derek Stewart, told the Oversight Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee June 28.
The Office of Personnel Management took over responsibility for Defense Department security investigations, as well as most civilian clearances, in February. GAO this year placed the DOD security clearance program on its high-risk list of programs that are vulnerable to waste, fraud and abuse. Defense accounts for about 80% of clearances.
A DOD official said the department currently has...
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