Comment Number: OL-10500896
Received: 2/22/2005 1:38:58 PM
Subject: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Request for Comment
Title: National Security Personnel System
CFR Citation: 5 CFR Chapter XCIX and Part 9901
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Comments:

Reference Subpart E / 9901.513. One of the goals of NSPS should be to reduce the disadvantages in hiring that DoD supervisors face compared to private industry. One of those disadvantages is the fact that, in Air Force at least, supervisors reviewing a list of candidates for a job are not even allowed to find out which candidates on the list may already possess a security clearance, even if the job being filled requires a clearance. This can lead to employees being hired for a position and then being paid for a year or more while waiting for a clearance, unable to accomplish the work they were hired to do, when another candidate who may have been equally qualified in every other respect may have already possessed the required clearance. Either having or not having a security clearance should not be a disqualifying factor or a required qualifications factor, but selecting supervisors should at least be able to have all possible pertinent information on the candidates they are considering.