1.Short title; constitutional
authority
(a)This Act may be cited
as the Interagency National Security
Professional Education, Administration, and Development System Act of
2010
.
(b)This Act is enacted
pursuant to the power granted Congress under article I, section 8 of the United
States Constitution.
2.Findings;
purpose; rule of construction
(a)Congress
finds the following:
(1)Employees with
responsibility for national security matters within the executive branch of the
Government (hereinafter in this Act referred to as national security
professionals
) are extraordinarily dedicated and talented individuals
who sacrifice a great deal to keep our Nation safe, secure, and
prosperous.
(2)Modern national
security challenges are complex and dynamic, and frequently require integration
of the full spectrum of the capabilities and power of the United States and its
allies to successfully address and manage those challenges.
(3)The current agency-centric
cultures, incentives, and structures within the United States national security
system prevent full and effective interagency cooperation and coordination,
leaving the Nation vulnerable to complex and dynamic modern national security
threats.
(4)It is imperative
to the national security of the United States that our national security
professionals are provided with the interagency knowledge, skills, and
experience they need to effectively integrate and utilize the full capabilities
and power of the United States and its allies to address national security
challenges.
(5)A
transformation in the Government’s approach to educating, training, and
developing its national security professionals is needed.
(b)The
purpose of this Act is to establish the Interagency National Security
Professional Education, Administration, and Development System, which
will—
(1)develop the
interagency knowledge, skills, and experience of national security
professionals working within the agencies of the Government by—
(A)creating
interagency national security education, training, and assignment opportunities
for national security professionals; and
(B)incentivizing national security
professionals to undertake and their employing agencies to encourage such
opportunities;
(2)ensure that
individuals occupying senior-level interagency national security positions have
been thoroughly prepared to seek out, recognize, and execute interagency
solutions to national security challenges;
(3)provide increased
consistency for educating, training, and developing national security
professionals across the Government, while leaving individual agencies
sufficient flexibility to meet their specific needs and ensure that
agency-specific skills, competencies, and capabilities remain robust;
and
(4)over time, augment
agency cultures with interagency perspectives and enhanced interagency
collaboration, thereby leading to better national security policy, better
mission execution, and a safer, more secure, and more prosperous Nation.
(c)Nothing in this Act, or any amendment made by this
Act, shall be construed to affect—
(1)the collective
bargaining status or rights of any Federal employees or unit thereof; or
(2)any individual’s
eligibility for benefits, or the amount of any benefits payable to an
individual, under a retirement system maintained by the United States for
officers or employees of the United States or for members of the uniformed
services.
3.Interagency
National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development
System
(a)Title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the
end the following:
102Interagency
National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development
System
10201. Definitions.
10202. Establishment and governance of Interagency National
Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development
System.
10203. Identification of interagency national security
positions.
10204. Interagency qualification.
10205. Senior-level interagency national security
positions.
10206. Interagency assignment defined.
10207. Interagency National Security Professional Education and
Training Consortium.
10208. Funding, personnel float, and restriction on usage of
funds.
10209. Reporting requirements.
10210. Implementation schedule.
10201.For purposes of this chapter—
(1)the term
Government means the Government of the United States;
(2)the term
national security professional means an employee of an Executive
agency who plans, coordinates, or participates, in a substantive manner, in
activities relating to national security matters;
(3)the term national security
matter means any matter that, as determined consistent with guidance
issued by the President, relates to threats to the United States, its people,
property, or interests, including threats from—
(A)human actions, intentional or
otherwise;
(B)acts of nature;
or
(C)accidents;
(4)the term
agency means an Executive agency;
(5)the term
intelligence agency has the meaning given such term by section 504
of the National Security Act of 1947;
(6)the term
intelligence community has the meaning given such term by section
3 of the National Security Act of 1947;
(7)the term
INSPEAD System or System means the Interagency
National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development
System, as described in section 10202;
(8)the term
Executive Steering Committee means the committee described in
section 10202(d);
(9)the term
Integration Office means the office established by or designated
pursuant to section 10202(e);
(10)the term
Interagency National Security Professional Education and Training
Consortium or Consortium means the consortium established
by section 10207(a); and
(11)the term
Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and
Development System Fund means the fund established by section
10208(a).
10202.Establishment
and governance of Interagency National Security Professional Education,
Administration, and Development System
(a)The President shall establish and maintain
a system for the interagency education, training, and professional development
of national security professionals, which shall be known as the
Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration,
and Development System
.
(b)The
purpose of the INSPEAD System shall be to foster the development of exceptional
national security professionals across the Government by—
(1)developing the
interagency knowledge, skills, and abilities of national security
professionals;
(2)providing
opportunities and incentives for national security professionals to undertake
interagency education, training, and assignments;
(3)ensuring that
individuals occupying senior-level national security positions have the
interagency knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience needed to seek out,
recognize, and execute interagency solutions to national security
challenges;
(4)providing
increased consistency for educating, training, and developing national security
professionals across agencies, while ensuring sufficient flexibility for
individual agencies to continue to meet their agency-specific needs; and
(5)augmenting agency
cultures with interagency perspective and vision, encouraging the exchange of
ideas and information between agencies, and building trust and familiarity
between personnel in different agencies.
(c)The
following agencies shall participate in the INSPEAD System:
(1)The Department of
State.
(2)The Department of
Defense.
(3)The Department of
Justice.
(4)The Department of
the Treasury.
(5)The Department of
Energy.
(6)The Department of
Homeland Security.
(7)The Office of the
Director of National Intelligence and all other intelligence agencies within
the intelligence community.
(8)The Department of
Commerce.
(9)The Department of
Transportation.
(10)The Department of
Agriculture.
(11)The Department of
Health and Human Services.
(12)The United States
Agency for International Development.
(13)Such other
agencies as the President may designate.
(d)Executive
Steering Committee
(1)There is
established a committee which shall be known as the Executive Steering
Committee
and the members of which shall consist of—
(A)the head of each
agency (or designee thereof, not lower than the rank of assistant Secretary or
its equivalent) participating in the System, as identified in subsection
(c);
(B)the Director of
the Office of Personnel Management (or designee thereof);
(C)the president of
the United States Institute of Peace (or designee thereof); and
(D)the Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs (or designee thereof) or, as designated by the President, such
Assistant’s successor in function (or designee thereof).
(2)The Director of
National Intelligence (or designee thereof) shall represent the entire
intelligence community on the Executive Steering Committee, except as provided
in paragraph (3)(B).
(3)The President may, if, in the judgment of
the President, national security or the operation of the INSPEAD System would
be enhanced thereby, require that any of the following also serve as members of
the Executive Steering Committee:
(A)The head of any
agency not otherwise participating in the System.
(B)The head of any
intelligence agency within the intelligence community, other than the Director
of National Intelligence.
(4)The member under
paragraph (1)(D) shall serve as the chair of the Executive Steering
Committee.
(5)The President, with the advice of the chair
of the Executive Steering Committee, shall establish policies regarding the
governance and operations of the Executive Steering Committee.
(e)
(1)An office, to be
known as the Integration Office
, shall be established or
designated within the Executive Office of the President—
(A)to perform overall
coordination of activities and policies relating to the INSPEAD System;
(B)to ensure the implementation and execution
of the policies of the System, including by overseeing the activities of the
participating agencies relating to the System;
(C)to advise the Executive Steering Committee
on matters and policies relating to the System;
(D)to support the functions of the Interagency
National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium and Board of
Regents established pursuant to section 10207; and
(E)to support the functions of the Executive
Steering Committee.
(2)The agencies
participating in the System shall, in a manner consistent with otherwise
applicable provisions of law, provide assistance, support, and access to
information to the Integration Office for the performance of its duties.
(f)The Executive Steering Committee shall establish
policies and procedures for governing, implementing, and executing the INSPEAD
System, including policies and procedures relating to—
(1)the interagency
knowledge, skills, experience, abilities, and qualifications desired or
required of national security professionals at all career levels across all
agencies participating in the System, particularly individuals holding
interagency national security positions;
(2)criteria for the
identification of interagency national security positions at all career levels
within all agencies participating in the System;
(3)guidance on the
management of national security professionals and positions across the
Government, such that interagency assignments are available, encouraged, and
incentivized;
(4)the development,
management, and coordination of interagency educational opportunities for
national security professionals;
(5)the development,
management, and coordination of interagency training opportunities for national
security professionals;
(6)overseeing and
monitoring the careers of employees who undertake interagency assignments,
education, and training opportunities offered by the System;
(7)ensuring that
employees who undertake interagency assignments, education, and training
opportunities are promoted and rewarded at rates not less than those of
individuals who do not;
(8)incentivizing
employees to participate in the System and pursue interagency qualification,
which may include consideration for accelerated promotion, one-time
compensation bonuses, and a General Schedule step increase (or the equivalent)
upon completion of an interagency qualification level;
(9)the management of
the Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and
Development System Fund; and
(10)the operation and
functions of the Integration Office.
10203.Identification
of interagency national security positions
(a)In
order to carry out this section, the Executive Steering Committee shall
establish the criteria to be used in determining which positions within an
agency are interagency national security positions. Such criteria shall
include, for each career level (as identified under this subsection based on
position duties and responsibilities)—
(1)a position’s involvement or participation
in the planning, coordination, or execution of activities relating to national
security matters;
(2)a position’s required or desired level of
interaction and engagement with other agencies; and
(3)such other
criteria as the Executive Steering Committee considers appropriate.
(b)Initial
identification and subsequent reviewEach agency participating in the INSPEAD
System, as identified under section 10202(c), shall identify and thereafter
periodically review, with the assistance of the Integration Office and the
Office of Personnel Management, all positions within such agency that meet the
criteria for inclusion in the System as interagency national security
positions
and designate those positions accordingly.
(c)Procedures for
new positionsThe Executive Steering Committee shall establish
and publish policies and procedures for determining whether newly created
positions meet the criteria developed pursuant to this section and must be
designated interagency national security positions before being filled.
(d)Exemption for
presidential appointees
(1)This chapter and the System do not apply to any position
to which an individual is appointed by the President or to the individual
holding any such position.
(2)It is the sense of Congress that, in the selection and
appointment of any individual for a position that (but for paragraph (1)) would
otherwise meet the criteria for an interagency national security position, due
consideration should be given to such individual’s interagency experience and
qualifications.
(e)Job
announcements for interagency national security positions shall solicit
applications from the widest population allowable by law.
10204.Interagency
qualification
(a)Interagency
qualification levelsThe Executive Steering Committee shall
establish various levels of interagency qualification for national security
professionals, as well as the requirements for employees to achieve
qualification at each level. Each level shall, at a minimum, have—
(1)interagency
education requirements;
(2)interagency
training requirements; and
(3)interagency
experience or assignment requirements.
The
purpose of establishing such qualification levels shall be to ensure
systematic, progressive, career-long development of national security
professionals in the knowledge, skills, experience, and abilities that enable
them to be highly effective participants in interagency activities related to
national security matters.(b)Qualification
levels required or desired for filling interagency national security
positionsUsing guidance established by the Executive Steering
Committee, and with assistance from the Integration Office, the agencies
participating in the INSPEAD System shall identify, for each interagency
national security position identified pursuant to section 10203, the
interagency qualification level required or desired of employees filling such
positions.
(c)The Executive Steering Committee, with the assistance
of the Integration Office, shall establish and publish normal procedures for
individuals to achieve the requirements for various levels of interagency
qualification. These procedures shall describe what interagency education,
training, and assignment opportunities enable an employee to meet the
requirements for interagency qualification at various levels.
(d)The Executive Steering Committee, with the assistance
of the Integration Office, shall establish and publish procedures for
individuals to apply for a review of work assignments, education, training, and
other appropriate experiences that are undertaken outside of the normal
procedures of the INSPEAD System and for which the individual desires to
receive interagency qualification credit. To encourage the participating
agencies to continue to seek exceptional talent from all sources, these
procedures shall address, at a minimum, individuals with appropriate and
distinguished work history outside the Government.
(e)Accounting for
prior experiencesThe Executive Steering Committee, with the
assistance of the Integration Office, shall establish and execute a process for
properly accounting for interagency assignments, education, and training
undertaken by individuals prior to implementation of the INSPEAD System that
satisfy requirements for interagency qualification.
(f)Based upon the normal procedures established by the
Executive Steering Committee pursuant to subsection (c), the head of each
participating agency shall establish career guidelines for employees in their
agency to understand and work toward achieving the various levels of
interagency qualification. Such guidelines shall include guidance regarding
interagency education, interagency training, interagency assignments, and such
other matters as the head of the agency considers appropriate.
10205.Senior-level
interagency national security positions
(a)Senior-Level
interagency national security positionsInteragency national security positions
within the Government’s senior-level personnel systems that are identified
pursuant to section 10203 shall be designated as senior-level
interagency national security positions
and shall be subject to the
requirements of this section. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term
position within the Government’s senior-level personnel systems
refers to—
(1)a position within the Senior Executive
Service;
(2)a position within the Senior Intelligence
Service;
(3)a position within the Defense Intelligence
Senior Executive Service;
(4)a position within the Senior Foreign
Service; and
(5)any other position
in an agency which is classified above grade GS–15 of the General Schedule
pursuant to section 5108 or in level IV or V of the Executive Schedule, or an
equivalent position, which—
(A)is not required to
be filled by appointment by the President, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate; and
(B)would otherwise be
considered a Senior Executive Service position under section 3132(a)(2), but
for section 3132(a)(1).
(b)Qualification
requirement for filling senior-Level interagency national security
positionsThe highest level of interagency qualification
established pursuant to section 10204(a) shall be required for an individual to
serve in senior-level interagency national security positions designated
pursuant to this section. The purpose of requiring this highest level of
interagency qualification shall be to ensure that personnel serving in
senior-level interagency national security positions have the requisite
knowledge, skills, experience, and abilities to be highly proficient leaders of
interagency activities related to national security matters. An individual may
not be designated as interagency-qualified at this highest level until the
individual successfully completes—
(1)an appropriate
program of interagency national security professional education, as prescribed
by the Executive Steering Committee and offered by the Interagency National
Security Professional Education and Training Consortium;
(2)an appropriate
program of interagency national security training, as prescribed by the
Executive Steering Committee;
(3)an interagency
assignment, as defined pursuant to section 10206, that consists of, at a
minimum, 1 interagency assignment lasting at least 24 months or 2 separate
interagency assignments lasting at least 12 months each; and
(4)such other
assignments and experiences, demonstrating the individual’s knowledge, skills,
and abilities in interagency national security matters, as the Executive
Steering Committee may prescribe.
(c)The
head of the agency seeking to fill a senior-level interagency national security
position designated pursuant to this section may, on a case-by-case basis,
request a waiver of portions of the interagency-qualification requirements
established pursuant to subsection (b) if the agency head determines—
(1)such waiver is
critical for the national security of the United States; or
(2)no individual is
available who meets the interagency qualification requirements of subsection
(b).
For each
waiver requested under this subsection, the agency head shall submit a
statement of justification to the Integration Office, including details
relating to the position and the candidate desired to fill the position.
Waivers must be approved by the Executive Steering Committee before the desired
candidate may be appointed to fill the position on a permanent basis.10206.Interagency
assignment defined
(a)The Executive Steering Committee shall define an
interagency assignment
for purposes of this chapter.
(b)The
definition shall be limited to assignments in which the individual so
assigned—
(1)gains significant
experience in addressing national security matters by means of interagency
cooperation and coordination; or
(2)gains significant
understanding of the operations, roles, responsibilities, and cultures of 1 or
more other agencies participating in the INSPEAD System.
(c)The
definition shall exclude—
(1)an assignment
within the agency in or under which such individual is employed, unless the
assignment is a full-time assignment to an interagency organization or team, as
defined by the Executive Steering Committee; and
(2)an assignment made
primarily or exclusively for training or educational purposes.
(d)Determination of
interagency assignments
(1)Each agency shall
determine, for individuals employed by such agency, which assignments satisfy
the requirements of subsections (a) through (c).
(2)The Integration
Office, from time to time, shall review such number of interagency assignments,
for individuals employed by a particular agency, as will enable the Integration
Office to determine whether such agency is defining interagency assignments in
conformance with the requirements of subsections (a) through (c).
(3)If the Integration
Office finds under paragraph (2) that 1 or more assignments, involving
individuals employed by an agency, are not in conformance with the requirements
of subsections (a) through (c)—
(A)the Integration
Office shall report its findings to the Executive Steering Committee;
and
(B)the Executive
Steering Committee may, in accordance with such procedures as the Committee by
regulation prescribes, take such action as the Committee considers necessary to
ensure that—
(i)the assignment or
assignments in question are brought into conformance with the requirements of
subsections (a) through (c); and
(ii)future
assignments of individuals employed by such agency will be in conformance with
those requirements.
10207.Interagency
National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium
(a)
(1)The Executive
Steering Committee shall establish an Interagency National Security
Professional Education and Training Consortium, which shall be composed of such
universities, colleges, and other institutions (whether public, private, or
governmental) as the Committee may determine and which agree to
participate.
(2)The mission of the Consortium shall be to
educate and train national security professionals, at all career levels from
the various agencies participating in the INSPEAD System, in a consistent
curriculum that provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to
successfully address complex and dynamic modern national security issues across
agencies.
(3)(A)The Executive Steering
Committee shall appoint a Board of Regents—
(i)to develop and maintain guidelines for the
curriculum, syllabi, and learning objectives for courses that can be taken by
national security professionals to fulfill interagency qualification
requirements of the System and are offered by institutions comprising the
Consortium;
(ii)to oversee and validate such courses taught
by institutions comprising the Consortium, to ensure they are consistent and
fulfill the purpose of the System;
(iii)to recommend to the Executive Steering
Committee that an institution be granted membership in the Consortium or that
the membership of an institution be denied or revoked; and
(iv)to perform such other duties in managing
and regulating the Consortium as the Executive Steering Committee may
determine.
(B)The Board of Regents shall be composed
of experts in education and training, national security matters, public
administration and policy, and such other topics as the Executive Steering
Committee considers appropriate. The Executive Steering Committee shall
periodically review the curriculum, syllabi, and learning objectives, and all
other aspects of the Consortium program.
(4)To foster long-term cooperation and
stronger relations with allies of the United States, the Executive Steering
Committee shall endeavor to create appropriate opportunities for government
personnel (civilian and military) of allied foreign nations, who have duties
similar to those of national security professionals, to study and train
alongside national security professionals through the Consortium.
(5)To enhance
cooperation with local and State governments on national security matters, the
Executive Steering Committee shall endeavor to create appropriate opportunities
for employees of local and State governments to study and train alongside
national security professionals through the Consortium.
(6)The Executive Steering Committee shall
study the means and appropriateness of enabling personnel from
quasi-governmental organizations, Federally funded research and development
corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and private corporations that
support agencies on national security matters to study and train alongside
national security professionals through the Consortium, and may provide such
access if warranted.
(b)Interagency
national security capstone course
(1)Upon selection, promotion, or transfer to
fill a senior-level interagency national security position designated pursuant
to section 10205(a), an individual shall be required, if such individual has
not done so before, to attend an interagency national security education course
designed specifically to prepare new senior-level national security
professionals to work effectively across agencies. The individual must complete
this course within 6 months after filling the position. The Board of Regents
(established pursuant to subsection (a)(3)) shall oversee the curriculum,
syllabi, learning objectives, and faculty for this course.
(2)The head of an
agency seeking to fill a senior-level interagency national security position
may, on a case-by-case basis, request a waiver of the requirements of paragraph
(1) if the agency head determines—
(A)such waiver is
critical for national security; or
(B)such individual
has extensive interagency experience as a result of previous assignments,
education, or training.
For each
waiver requested under this paragraph, the agency head shall submit a statement
of justification to the Integration Office, including details relating to the
position and the candidate desired to fill the position. Waivers must be
approved by the Executive Steering Committee before the desired candidate may
be appointed to fill the position on a permanent basis.(c)Other
interagency education and training opportunities for national security
professionals
(1)The head of each
agency participating in the INSPEAD System shall require that such agency’s
education and training programs include programs, for national security
professionals at all career levels, that—
(A)strengthen the
interagency knowledge and skills of their national security
professionals;
(B)prepare their
national security professionals for interagency assignments; and
(C)offer
opportunities to learn and train alongside national security professionals from
other agencies.
(2)The head of each
agency shall ensure that interagency education and training opportunities under
the System shall augment, and shall not replace (in whole or in part),
agency-specific education and training opportunities.
10208.Funding,
personnel float, and restriction on usage of funds
(a)
(1)There is
established a fund, to be known as the Interagency National Security
Professional Education, Administration, and Development System Fund
.
Such Fund shall be available for—
(A)the expenses
incurred, in the administration of this chapter, by—
(i)the Executive
Steering Committee;
(ii)the Integration
Office; and
(iii)the Board of
Regents;
(B)such expenses
incurred by the Interagency National Security Professional Education and
Training Consortium to carry out this chapter as the Executive Steering
Committee may determine; and
(C)such other
purposes relating to the administration of the System as the Executive Steering
Committee may determine.
(2)There are authorized to be appropriated for
the Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and
Development System Fund such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes
set forth in paragraph (1). Amounts appropriated pursuant to this subsection
shall remain available until expended. The President shall include in each
annual budget request to Congress a request for funding to the Interagency
National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development
System Fund.
(b)The President shall include in each annual budget request
to Congress a statement of the amount of funding requested for operation of the
INSPEAD System within each participating agency. The Integration Office, with
guidance from the Office of Management and Budget, shall provide, in a
transmittal to the head of each agency participating in the System, not later
than July 1 of each year, guidance for determining the agency’s level of
funding necessary for operation of the System within that agency. The head of
each participating agency shall include the funding amount so determined for
the System in the agency’s budget request for the next fiscal year scheduled
for formulation under chapter 11 of title 31, and each of the 4 succeeding
fiscal years.
(c)Within
the agency funding requests developed pursuant to subsection (b), the
President’s annual budget request for the INSPEAD System shall include funding
to establish and maintain a personnel float
for each agency.
This float
will enable the agencies to continue day-to-day
functions and mission operations while allowing agency national security
professionals to participate in interagency education, training, and assignment
opportunities provided by the System that require absences from their normal
duties.
(d)Funds
authorized or stipulated under this section may not be used to conduct
mission-related or day-to-day operations of an agency, or to defray (in whole
or in part) the costs of agency-specific education or training.
10209.
(a)Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this chapter, the President shall submit to Congress a written report
containing an implementation plan for the INSPEAD System. This report shall, at
a minimum, address—
(1)the list of
agencies participating in the System, as determined under section
10202(c);
(2)progress and a
timeline on development and issuance of policies and procedures required to
implement and operate the System, including those required pursuant to section
10202(f);
(3)progress and a
timeline on implementation of the organizational structure of the System,
including—
(A)the Executive
Steering Committee;
(B)the Integration
Office; and
(C)the Interagency
National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium (as described
in section 10207) Board of Regents (as so described);
(4)progress and a
timeline on implementing a comprehensive program of interagency national
security education, training, and assignment opportunities;
(5)cost estimates to
support full implementation and operation of the System, including the
personnel float
required pursuant to section 10208(c);
and
(6)such other matters
as the Executive Steering Committee determines important for full transparency
of the implementation of the System.
(b)The Executive Steering Committee, with the assistance of
the Integration Office, shall submit to Congress each year, at the time that
the President’s budget request is submitted to Congress that year under section
1105(a) of title 31, a report detailing the implementation and operations of
the INSPEAD System. Each such report shall include, at a minimum, details
relating to—
(1)statistics
concerning the promotion and advancement of individuals who participate in the
interagency assignment, education, and training opportunities provided by the
System and those who do not;
(2)expenditures from the Interagency National
Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System Fund
under section 10208(a), and from agency funds under section 10208(b), during
the preceding fiscal year;
(3)the number and a
brief description of the senior-level interagency national security positions
in each agency participating in the System;
(4)statistics
relating to the number of employees in the participating agencies, broken down
by agency and by the various levels of interagency qualification;
(5)an overview of
education and training courses offered by the Interagency National Security
Professional Education and Training Consortium, and statistics on the number of
employees participating in such courses;
(6)waivers, broken
down by agency, granted with respect to any of the requirements and policies
established by this chapter, the President, or the Executive Steering
Committee;
(7)statistics
relating to the application and review of individuals seeking interagency
qualification outside the normal procedures of the System, including those with
appropriate and distinguished work experience outside the Government;
and
(8)any legislation
which the President or the Executive Steering Committee considers necessary to
improve the System.
10210.
(a)Rollout, pilot,
and full implementation
(1)Notwithstanding
the requirements of this section, the President and Executive Steering
Committee may phase-in implementation of the INSPEAD System’s policies and
requirements in a manner that enables national security professionals to
recognize and begin acquiring the requirements for interagency qualification
and enables agencies and the governance structures of the System to implement
policies and programs to support the INSPEAD System.
(2)All of the
requirements of the System, including section 10205(b), shall be fully
applicable to at least 4 of the agencies identified in section 10202(c), as
chosen by the President, no later than 24 months after the date of the
enactment of this chapter. All of the policies, procedures, and career guidance
required to operate the System under this paragraph shall be issued no later
than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this chapter.
(3)All of the
requirements of the System, including section 10205(b), shall be fully
applicable to all of the agencies selected for participation in the System
pursuant to section 10202(c) no later than 48 months after the date of the
enactment of this chapter. All of the policies, procedures, and career guidance
required to operate the full System shall be issued no later than 42 months
after the date of the enactment of this chapter.
(b)Identification
of interagency national security positionsInitial identification
of interagency national security positions pursuant to section 10203(b) shall
be completed by an agency no later than 12 months before the requirements of
the INSPEAD System are fully applicable to that agency, as determined by the
President.
(c)Education and
training programsInitial interagency education and training
programs shall be established and available no later than 12 months after the
date of the enactment of this chapter.
(d)Interagency
assignment requirementAny individual, employed in or under an
agency, who occupies a senior-level interagency national security position on
the date as of which all requirements of the System, including section
10205(b), become fully applicable with respect to such agency, shall be exempt
from the requirements established in section 10205(b) and 10207(b) for the
duration of their individual careers.
(e)Inclusion of
uniformed military personnel
(1)Not later than 48 months after the date of
the enactment of this chapter, the Secretary of Defense shall make the
requirements of the System, including those of section 10205(b), applicable to
commissioned officers.
(2)At least 12 months
before the requirements of the System are applicable to commissioned officers,
the Secretary of Defense, with the advice of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff and the Executive Steering Committee, shall issue policies and
procedures for including commissioned officers in the System. These policies
and procedures shall be fully integrated with professional military education,
training, and joint duty assignment policies and procedures.
(3)At least 24 months
before the requirements of the System are applicable to commissioned officers,
the Secretary of Defense shall identify, using the same criteria developed
pursuant to section 10202(f)(2) and section 10203(a), commissioned officer
positions that shall be designated interagency national security positions
pursuant to section 10203. Such positions that are filled by general officers
or flag officers shall be designated senior-level interagency national security
positions pursuant to section 10205 and shall be subject to the requirements of
such designation.
(4)Enlisted members and warrant officers of
the Armed Forces shall not be subject to the requirements of this chapter or
the System, unless so designated by the Secretary of Defense.
(5)For purposes of this subsection, the terms
‘commissioned officer’, ‘enlisted member’, ‘warrant officer’, ‘general
officer’, and ‘flag officer’ have the meaning given such terms by section
101(b) of title
10.
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(b)The analysis for part III of title 5, United States
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
102.Interagency National Security Professional Education,
Administration, and Development System
10201
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