(1) IN GENERAL.—Title V of the National Se-
curity Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 413 et seq.) is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sec-
tion: 
‘‘REPORTS ON SECURITY CLEARANCES 
‘‘SEC. 508. (a) QUADRENNIAL AUDIT OF POSITION 
REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall every 
four years conduct an audit of how the executive 
branch determines whether a security clearance is 
required for a particular position in the Federal 
Government. 
‘‘(2) SUBMISSION.—Not later than 30 days 
after the completion of an audit conducted under 
paragraph (1), the President shall submit to Con-
gress the results of such audit. 
‘‘(b) REPORT
ON SECURITY CLEARANCE DETER-
MINATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than February 1 
of each year, the President (or a designee of the 
President) shall submit to Congress a report on the 
security clearance process. Such report shall include, 
for each security clearance level— 
‘‘(A) the number of government employees 
who— 
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‘‘(i) held a security clearance at such 
level as of October 1 of the preceding year; 
and 
‘‘(ii) were approved for a security 
clearance at such level during the pre-
ceding fiscal year; 
‘‘(B) the number of contractors who— 
‘‘(i) held a security clearance at such 
level as of October 1 of the preceding year; 
and 
‘‘(ii) were approved for a security 
clearance at such level during the pre-
ceding fiscal year; and 
‘‘(C) for each element of the intelligence 
community— 
‘‘(i) the amount of time it took to 
process the fastest 80 percent of security 
clearance determinations for such level; 
‘‘(ii) the amount of time it took to 
process the fastest 90 percent of security 
clearance determinations for such level; 
‘‘(iii) the number of open security 
clearance investigations for such level that 
have remained open for— 
‘‘(I) 4 months or less; 
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‘‘(II) between 4 months and 8 
months; 
‘‘(III) between 8 months and 12 
months; and 
‘‘(IV) more than a year; 
‘‘(iv) the percentage of reviews that 
result in a denial or revocation of a secu-
rity clearance; 
‘‘(v) the percentage of investigations 
that resulted in incomplete information; 
and 
‘‘(vi) the percentage of investigations 
that did not result in enough information 
to make a decision on potentially adverse 
information. 
‘‘(2) SECURITY CLEARANCE LEVELS.—For pur-
poses of paragraph (1), the Director of National In-
telligence may consider— 
‘‘(A) security clearances at the level of con-
fidential and secret as one security clearance 
level; and 
‘‘(B) security clearances at the level of top 
secret or higher as one security clearance level. 
‘‘(c) DIRECTOR OF OMB.—Not later than February 
1 of each year, the Director of the Office of Management 
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and Budget shall submit to Congress a report on security 
clearance determinations completed or ongoing during the 
preceding fiscal year that have taken longer than 1 year 
to complete. Such report shall include— 
‘‘(1) the number of security clearance deter-
minations for positions as employees of the Federal 
Government that required more than 1 year to com-
plete; 
‘‘(2) the number of security clearance deter-
minations for contractors that required more than 1 
year to complete; 
‘‘(3) the agencies that investigated and adju-
dicated such determinations; and 
‘‘(4) the cause of significant delays in such de-
terminations.’’. 
(2) REPORT ON METRICS FOR ADJUDICATION 
QUALITY.—Not later than 180 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to 
Congress a report on security clearance investiga-
tions and adjudications. Such report shall include— 
(A) Federal Government-wide adjudication 
guidelines and metrics for adjudication quality; 
(B) a plan to improve the professional de-
velopment of security clearance adjudicators; 
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(C) metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of 
interagency clearance reciprocity; and 
(D) Federal Government-wide investigation 
standards and metrics for investigation quality. 
(3) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents in the first section of the National Security 
Act of 1947 is amended by inserting after the item 
relating to section 507 the following new item: 
‘‘Sec. 508. Reports on security clearances.’’. 
(b) INITIAL AUDIT.—The first audit required to be 
conducted under section 508(a)(1) of the National Secu-
rity Act of 1947 (as added by subsection (a)) shall be com-
pleted not later than February 1, 2010. 
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