The office responsible for enhancing and streamlining the federal government's security clearance system must take further action to improve what a new Government Accountability Office report concludes is an inefficient process. The Office of Management and Budget is responsible for improving the manner in which government security clearances are granted. An OMB "strategic plan" for improving the process specified a goal of 180 days to complete an initial top-secret clearance investigation. GAO's analysis, however, found initial investigations took an average...
