S.Amdt. 4368

SA 4368. Mr. CARPER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

Strike section 973 and insert the following:

SEC. 973. MODERNIZATION OF SECURITY CLEARANCE INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense, in consultation
with the Director of National Intelligence and the Director
of the Office of Personnel Management, shall develop and
implement an information technology system (in this section
referred to as the ``System'') to--
(1) modernize and sustain the security clearance
information architecture of the National Background
Investigations Bureau and the Department of Defense;
(2) support decision-making processes for the evaluation
and granting of personnel security clearances;
(3) improve cyber security capabilities with respect to
sensitive security clearance data and processes;
(4) reduce the complexity and cost of the security
clearance process;
(5) provide information to managers on the financial and
administrative costs of the security clearance process;
(6) strengthen the ties between counterintelligence and
personnel security communities; and
(7) improve system standardization in the security
clearance process.
(b) Guidance Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in
consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, shall
issue guidance establishing the respective roles,
responsibilities, and obligations of the Secretary and
Directors with respect to the development and implementation
of the System.
(c) Elements of System.--In developing the System under
subsection (a), the Secretary shall--
(1) conduct a review of security clearance business
processes and, to the extent practicable, modify such
processes to maximize compatibility with the security
clearance information technology architecture to minimize the
need for customization of the System;
(2) conduct business process mapping (as such term is
defined in section 2222(i) of title 10, United States Code)
of the business processes described in paragraph (1);
(3) use spiral development and incremental acquisition
practices to rapidly deploy the System, including through the
use of prototyping and open architecture principles;
(4) establish a process to identify and limit interfaces
with legacy systems and to limit customization of any
commercial information technology tools used;
(5) establish automated processes for measuring the
performance goals of the System; and
(6) incorporate capabilities for the continuous monitoring
of network security and the mitigation of insider threats to
the System.
(d) Completion Date.--The Secretary shall complete the
development and implementation of the System by not later
than September 30, 2019.
(e) Briefing.--Beginning on December 1, 2016, and on a
quarterly basis thereafter until the completion date of
implementation of the System under subsection (d), the
Secretary shall provide a briefing to the appropriate
committees of Congress on the progress of the Secretary in
developing and implementing the System.
(f) Review of Applicable Laws.--The Secretary shall review
laws, regulations, and executive orders relating to the
maintenance of personnel security clearance information by
the Federal Government. Not later than 90 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide to
the appropriate committees of Congress a briefing that
includes--
(1) the results of the review; and
(2) recommendations, if any, for consolidating and
clarifying laws, regulations, and executive orders relating
to the maintenance of personnel security clearance
information by the Federal Government.
(g) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this
section, the term ``appropriate committees of Congress''
means--
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on
Appropriations of the Senate, and the Select Committee on
Intelligence of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, the Committee on
Appropriations and the Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
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