Impact of altering the delinquent debt threshold used for background investigation expansion of the denial rate of security clearances

dc.contributor.advisorFremgen, James M.
dc.contributor.advisorTimm, Howard
dc.contributor.authorHill, Henry J.
dc.contributor.corporateNaval Postgraduate School
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Administrative Sciences
dc.dateJune 1991.
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-15T23:32:09Z
dc.date.available2013-02-15T23:32:09Z
dc.date.issued1991-06
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this thesis was to conduct an analysis of cases of requests for Top Secret security clearances from applicants whose backgrounds showed some derogatory financial information, to determine the impact of the delinquent debt threshold used to expand personnel security investigations on final clearance decisions. To conduct the analysis, a sample of completed cases meeting the Defense Investigative Service's (DIS) delinquent debt criteria for investigation expansion ($500 or more outstanding for 120 days) was selected. The total amount of delinquent debt for each case was recorded and classified in one of three debt categories, under $1000, $1000 to $2000, and over $2000. In order to determine final clearance decisions, the sample data were merged with the Defense Central Investigations (DCII) data base. This provided a breakdown by clearance denials and approvals at the various delinquent debt categories. The analysis suggests that delinquent debt levels play less of a role in determining final clearance outcomes than was originally anticipated; it also provide som empirical support for raising the delinquent debt threshold above the current $500 threshold amounten_US
dc.description.serviceLieutenant, United States Navy .en_US
dc.description.urihttp://archive.org/details/impactoflteringd1094528269
dc.format.extent74 p.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/28269
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherMonterey, California. Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.subject.authorDelinquent debt thresholden_US
dc.subject.authorBackground investigationen_US
dc.subject.authorDerogatory financial informationen_US
dc.subject.authorAdjudicationen_US
dc.subject.authorBackground investigation expansionen_US
dc.subject.authorScopingen_US
dc.subject.authorHighly sensitive positionen_US
dc.subject.authorSensitive compartmented informationen_US
dc.titleImpact of altering the delinquent debt threshold used for background investigation expansion of the denial rate of security clearancesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
etd.thesisdegree.disciplineManagementen_US
etd.thesisdegree.grantorNaval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
etd.thesisdegree.levelMastersen_US
etd.thesisdegree.nameM.S. in Managementen_US
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