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Personnel vetting : DOD should improve management and operation of its background investigation working capital fund : report to the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives.
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- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Defense--Appropriations and expenditures.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Defense--Accounting.
- United States. Department of Defense.
- Working capital--United States--Accounting.
- Working capital.
- Employee screening--United States.
- Employee screening.
- Security clearances--United States.
- Security clearances.
- Accounting.
- Expenditures, Public.
- Working capital--Accounting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (iii, 53 pages) : color illustrations
- Other Title:
- Personnel vetting : Department of Defense should improve management and operation of its background investigation working capital fund
- DOD should improve management and operation of its background investigation working capital fund
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2023.
- Summary:
- The U.S. government relies on over 4 million personnel with security clearances to provide critical public services, including national defense. In October 2019, the Department of Defense (DOD) became the federal government's primary background investigation service provider through a new agency, DCSA, which considers security clearances for millions of federal and contractor personnel. DCSA established a WCF to finance its personnel vetting activities. House Report 117-118, accompanying a bill for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, included a provision for GAO to evaluate, among other things, the extent to which DCSA maintained its monthly cash balances within established operating ranges and calculated cash requirements correctly, and managed its WCF in accordance with key operating principles for WCFs. GAO is making six recommendations to the Secretary of Defense, including that DCSA issues and implements guidance for correctly calculating its WCF operating range; evaluate its WCF performance measures; establish performance targets; and implement a systematic and reliable method for analyzing customer satisfaction.
- Contents:
- Background.
- DCSA plans to use its WCF to finance all personnel vetting activities.
- Monthly cash balances generally remained within operating range over 3 years, but miscalculations during 1 year led to higher than needed prices.
- The WCF has defined roles and is self-sufficient, but DCSA does not fully measure performance or assess feedback.
- Conclusions.
- Recommendations for executive action.
- Agency comments.
- Appendices.
- Notes:
- "July 2023."
- Accompanied by summary report with title: GAO highlights.
- In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Cataloging and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (GAO, viewed Aug. 21, 2023).
- OCLC:
- 1391432286
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