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GAO Adds Security Clearance Process To ‘High-Risk’ List

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GAO Adds Security Clearance Process To ‘High-Risk’ List
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Following concerns of extensive backlogs, lagging reform efforts and now IT systems vulnerabilities, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has added the federal security clearance process to its list of “high-risk” programs in need of immediate improvement.The next update to the GAO’s high-risk list is scheduled for early 2019, but the agency made the new addition on Thursday after it determined the clearance process is in need of urgent congressional attention to fix glaring security flaws.“Our objective for the High Risk…

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