With Backlog Busted, Security Clearance Reform Focuses on Pushing Metrics That Matter

"It's really solving for a system level - not IT systems but business system level - set of challenges, so that we're asking 'what is it our target state needs to look like so that we can achieve better quality, lower cost and more timeliness?'" said Margaret Weichart, OMB. "We don't buy into the premise that these are trade offs. We need all of those things to be true, and so we have to take enough of an innovative approach to make all of those things true."