The Office of Management Budget has revised its guidance on making security clearances reciprocal among agencies.
Its December 12, 2005 memo allows agency heads to establish additional but not duplicative investigative or adjudicative requirements for special access programs or for detail or assignment to their agencies, and OMB has now changed the guidance to limit additional requirements to those involving the administration of polygraph exams, and disqualifying individuals with non-U.S. immediate family members.
Additional requirements are also limited to requiring personnel security investigations completed within seven years irrespective of the classification level of the special access program — though the requirement to submit the periodic reinvestigation packet NLT each fifth year remains unchanged, according to OMB memo M-06-21.
It said that in lieu of the polygraph, agencies may require personnel who are seeking initial access to a SAP, or a higher level SAP, to submit a SF 86 form signed and completed within the last year.
OMB said agency heads who want to impose additional requirements need to notify the OMB director, and that agencies should try to make 80 percent of all SAP determinations within 30 days.
