ODNI Report Discusses Clearance Reforms

A new, unclassified report issued by the Office of the Director for National Intelligence (ODNI) and approved for release via the Federation of American Scientists’ Secrecy Project highlights challenges ahead for Intelligence Community personnel management. The Report touches upon aspects of security clearance reform…

Among the Report’s key points on security clearances:

Due, in part, to the “most stringent suitability and security clearance requirements anywhere,” the Intelligence Community faces “hyper-competition” for skilled talent…

Despite long waits for security clearance, most of those [job candidates] we select stay the course. However, we cannot take this for granted…

[We need to] expedite the reengineering of the security clearance investigation and adjudication process in FY 2006, so that recruits are not forced to wait months to begin work…

“Uniform security clearance” standards are necessary to “ease movement between and among Intelligence Community components.”

The Report also reveals a proposal to create a “research park” where recruits awaiting clearance could begin analytical work using open-source, unclassified materials, rather than wait in limbo for clearances to be issued.

The Washington Post highlighted the Report in a recent news article here.

Filed Under: Reform, Adjudication