Defence insiders say the department is facing 'a massive backlog' for vetting new employees, a crucial requirement for anyone working on the highly secretive endeavour involving the United States and United Kingdom.
abc.net.au/news/defence-struggle-security-clearances-aukus-staff-rush/102167842Australia's largest ever military project is facing an early setback, with Defence struggling to complete mandatory security clearances for skilled staff to work on the sensitive AUKUS nuclear submarine program.
Defence insiders have told the ABC the department is facing "a massive backlog" for vetting new employees, a crucial requirement for anyone working on the highly secretive endeavour involving the United States and the United Kingdom. "They were migrating from using an older online/paper system to a new online system and the whole thing has collapsed," one figure familiar with the situation claimed.
MyClearance is used by the Australian Government Security Vetting Agency , an organisation inside Defence which performs security clearances for Commonwealth and territory departments as well as industry bodies. A Defence spokesperson acknowledged there were "challenges" with the digital portal built by tech services company Accenture, but insisted there had been "no unplanned outages of the MyClearance system".
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