Serial No. 115-41: Security Clearance Investigation Challenges and Reforms, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Government Operations of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, First Session, October 11, 2017

摘要

This is the October 11, 2017 hearing on Security Clearance Investigation Challenges and Reforms, held before the Subcommittee on Government Operations of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. From the opening statement of Jody B. Hice: Today's hearing will cover a topic of great importance. How to ensure security clearance investigations are effective and efficient. We're discussing this now because of the record 700,000 investigation backlog of background investigations throughout the Federal Government. For would-be Federal or contractor employees awaiting their first clearance, the backlog means they have to wait months before they can start working. The problem calls for thoughtful analysis and meaningful reform, not knee-jerk reactions and superficial solutions. [...] Today, only a year after the creation of the NBIB [National Background Investigations Bureau], the Senate NDAA [National Defense Authorization Act] contains a provision that would transfer the investigation function back to the DOD. Though DOD has put out a plan for how it would take over investigations, it has yet to issue much in the way of an argument as to why it should do so. There are much clearer reasons for why it should not. Statements, letters, and materials submitted for the record include those of the following: Charles S. Phalen, Jr., Garry P. Reid, William R. Evanina, and A.R. ''Trey'' Hodgkins III.