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Inspection Report: INS-O-09-01
Security Clearances at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory-California
Security Clearances at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory-California
Department of Energy facilities, including those managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), use a fonllal security clearance process to authorize einployees with a "need to know" to access classified information or special nuclear material. The NNSA Service Center (Service Center) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the cognizant authority for NNSA persoimel security clearances. ~II fiscal year 2007, the Service Center spent about $21 mi!lion to process approxiinately 52,000 persoimel security clearances for NNSA facilities. This included Lawrence Livennore National Laboratory (Livermore) and Sandia National Laboratory-California (Sandia), where about 9,200 individuals held clearances and approximately $3.6 million of the $21 million was expended. During this same period, the Service Center had a backlog of over 2,500 personnel security clearance requests that it was unable to process.
Department of Energy facilities, including those managed by the National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA), use a fonllal security clearance process to authorize einployees with a
"need to know" to access classified information or special nuclear material. The NNSA Service
Center (Service Center) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the cognizant authority for NNSA
personnel security clearances. ~ I fIis cal year 2007, the Service Center spent about $21 million to process approximately 52,000 personnel security clearances for NNSA facilities. This included Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Livermore) and Sandia National Laboratory- California (Sandia), where about 9,200 individuals held clearances and approximately $3.6 million of the $2 1 million was expended. During this same period, the Service Center had a backlog of over 2,500 personnel security clearance requests that it was unable to process.
Clearances within the Department is time and resource intensive. and processing backlogs have been a concern within the Department. Ensuring security clearances are requested only when truly recluired is a matter of policy and will help reduce un-guarantee expenditures and the clearance backlog. We initiated this inspection to determine if security clearance justifications at Livermore and Sandia met the Department's requirements.
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