OPM Launches E-Clearance
Initiative, Enhancing Homeland Security
News Advisory:
On March 17, the U.S. Office of Personnel
Management will hold
a press briefing to launch its e-Clearance Initiative.
The e-Clearance Initiative is part of the
e-Government
initiative contained in President George W. Bush's Management
Agenda and coordinated by the Office of Management and Budget.
The
president's Management Agenda contains 24 e-Government
initiatives, five of
which are managed by OPM. The other four
programs OPM manages are
e-Training, e-Payroll, Recruitment One
Stop, and Enterprise Human Resource
Integration.
The e-Clearance Initiative focuses on
consolidating and
increasing access and leveraging technology to improve the
efficiency and speed for granting or locating previous clearances
or
investigations. Benefits to citizens include more efficient
operations,
quicker granting of clearances, elimination of
redundant investigations, and
financial savings. All these
features contribute to enhanced homeland
security.
Who: Kay Coles James, Director, Office of
Personnel Management
-- Norm Enger, Project Manager for HR Related
e-Government
Projects, Office of Personnel Management
-- Pete Grau,
Special Security Officer, Lockheed Martin Data
and Management Services
-- Ann Tursic, Chief, Personnel Security Division, Department
of
Homeland Security
What: Launch of the e-Clearance
Initiative
When: March 17, 2003 at 2 p.m.
Where: Office of Personnel Management,
Theodore Roosevelt
Building, 1900 E Street, NW, Washington, DC
For more information or to RSVP for the
event contact Rusty
Asher in the Office of Communications at
202-606-2402.
