Security Clearance Reform: The Way Forward

Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia

Thursday, May 22, 2008
02:30 PM

[view archive webcast]

This will be the fifth in a series of Subcommittee hearings on the federal government’s security clearance process. This hearing will examine progress in improving the security clearance process over the last year. Specifically, the hearing will focus on reform efforts underway in the Administration’s Joint Security and Suitability Reform Team to streamline, standardize and update the process.

Witnesses

Panel 1

• Ms. Brenda Farrell [view testimony]
  Director, Defense Capabilities and Management
  U.S. Government Accountability Office
• The Honorable Clay Johnson, III [view testimony]
  Deputy Director for Management
  Office of Management and Budget
• Ms. Beth McGrath [view testimony]
  Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation
  Department of Defense
• Mr. John Fitzpatrick
  Director of Specialty Security Center
  Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• Kathy L. Dillaman [view testimony]
  Associate Director, Federal Investigative Services Division
  U.S. Office of Personnel Management