Comments on: GAO on Contractor Security Clearances http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/05/gao_on_contractor_security_cle.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:49:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Daniel Hirsch http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/05/gao_on_contractor_security_cle.html/comment-page-1#comment-811 Daniel Hirsch Sun, 20 May 2007 02:19:48 +0000 http://fasweb.beacontec.com/blog/secrecy/2007/05/gao_on_contractor_security_clearances.html#comment-811 Speed of clearances is only one factor, and the least important one at that, as this press release from CFSOs points out: PRESS RELEASE FROM CONCERNED FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS Washington DC, May 18, 2007 For Immediate Release Contact Concerned Foreign Service Officers: info@worldcrafters.com <a href="http://www.worldcrafters.com/images/CFSO_statement_on_IT_Award.doc" rel="nofollow">CONCERNED FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS STATEMENT ON RECENT DS AWARDS</a> (MSWord file) People who work with computers use the term GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) to refer to the fact that an automated information management system is only as good as the information programmed into it. This is especially important with a system whose purpose is merely to store and transmit information, rather than processing it. The State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) recently received an IT Leadership Award from Government Computer News, for innovation in the use of automation to facilitate the security clearance process. This is the second award that the State Department has received for this process (it also received an OPM Guardian Award) and is touted by DS as evidence that the State Department's security clearance process is among the best. Concerned Foreign Service Officers (www.worldcrafters.com) begs to differ. [...] Speed of clearances is only one factor, and the least important one at that, as this press release from CFSOs points out:

PRESS RELEASE FROM CONCERNED FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS

Washington DC, May 18, 2007
For Immediate Release

Contact Concerned Foreign Service Officers: info@worldcrafters.com

CONCERNED FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS STATEMENT ON RECENT DS AWARDS (MSWord file)

People who work with computers use the term GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) to refer to the fact that an automated information management system is only as good as the information programmed into it. This is especially important with a system whose purpose is merely to store and transmit information, rather than processing it. The State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) recently received an IT Leadership Award from Government Computer News, for innovation in the use of automation to facilitate the security clearance process. This is the second award that the State Department has received for this process (it also received an OPM Guardian Award) and is touted by DS as evidence that the State Department’s security clearance process is among the best. Concerned Foreign Service Officers (www.worldcrafters.com) begs to differ.

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