PERFORMANCE MEASURES REGARDING TIMELINESS FOR PERSONNEL MOBILITY.

SEC. 311. [50 U.S.C. 3341 note] PERFORMANCE MEASURES REGARDING TIMELINESS FOR PERSONNEL MOBILITY. (a) Policy Required.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall issue a policy for measuring the total time it takes to transfer personnel with security clearances and eligibility for access to information commonly referred to as “sensitive compartmented information” from one element of the intelligence community to another, or from one contract to another in the case of a contractor. (b) Requirements.—The policy issued under subsection (a) shall— (1) to the degree practicable, cover all personnel who are moving to positions that require a security clearance and access to sensitive compartmented information; (2) cover the period from the first time an element of the intelligence community or company submits a request to an element of the intelligence community for the transfer of the employment of an individual with a clearance access or eligibility determination to another element of the intelligence community, to the time the individual is authorized by that receiving element to start to work in the new position; and (3) include analysis of all appropriate phases of the process, including polygraph, suitability determination, fitness determination, human resources review, transfer of the sensitive compartmented information access, and contract actions. (c) Updated Policies.— (1) Modifications.—Not later than 1 year after the date on which the Director issues the policy under subsection (a), the Director shall issue modifications to such policies as the Director determines were issued before the issuance of the policy under such subsection and are relevant to such updated policy, as the Director considers appropriate. (2) Recommendations.—Not later than 1 year after the date on which the Director issues the policy under subsection (a), the Director shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees recommendations for legislative action to update metrics specified elsewhere in statute to measure parts of the process that support transfers described in subsection (a). (d) Annual Reports.—Not later than 180 days after issuing the policy required by subsection (a) and not less frequently than once each year thereafter until the date that is 3 years after the date of such issuance, the Director shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the implementation of such policy. Such report shall address performance by department or agency and by clearance type in meeting such policy. (e) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— (1) the congressional intelligence committees; and (2) the Subcommittees on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate.