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Security Clearances–The Wheels of Government Turn Slowly

OPM: Progress made on security clearances

By Richard W. Walker

Agency asks GAO to reexamine 2006 review

Office of Personnel Management officials think the government is making progress on improving the timeliness and quality of its personnel security clearance investigations. In fact, OPM wants the Government Accountability Office to have another look at the situation.

In a September 2006 report, GAO found that the government was not meeting its goals for processing background investigations. The system, GAO said, seemed unable to maintain investigative standards consistently under the strain of increased demand for clearances.

But OPM Director Linda Springer said recently that considerable improvement has been made since GAO did the field work for the report and asked Congress to request an updated report from GAO.

For the entire article go to WashingtonTechnology.com

The wheels of government move slowly. Bureaucracies usually move at a glacial pace. Corra knows there should be no shock there. But you are hiring people and you have the kind of contract with a client where you have to checkout your employees for criminal searches and the OFAC or global terrorist watch list? What to do?

Call Corra. While we cannot help arrange to expedite security clearance, we can certainly run all the background checks that render your employees compliant with any stipulations. We can run these searches quickly and easily, returning some of the reports the very same day.

So check them out before your hire. And use Corra when you do so.

By Gordon Basichis

Gordon Basichis is the Co-Founder of Corra Group, specializing in pre-employment background checks and corporate research. He has been a marketing and media executive and has worked in the entertainment industry, the financial, health care and technology sectors. He is the author of the best selling Beautiful Bad Girl, The Vicki Morgan Story, a non-fiction novel that helped define exotic sexuality in the late twentieth century. He is the author of the Constant Travellers and has recently completed a new book, The Guys Who Spied for China, dealing with Chinese Espionage in the United States. He has been a journalist for several newspapers and is a screenwriter and producer.