[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
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[S. 1268 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1268

   To increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Government by 
 providing for greater interagency experience among national security 
 and homeland security personnel through the development of a national 
 security and homeland security human capital strategy and interagency 
        rotational service by employees, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 23, 2011

Mr. Lieberman (for himself, Ms. Collins, and Mr. Akaka) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
               Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the Government by 
 providing for greater interagency experience among national security 
 and homeland security personnel through the development of a national 
 security and homeland security human capital strategy and interagency 
        rotational service by employees, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Interagency Personnel Rotation Act 
of 2011''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
            (1) the national security and homeland security challenges 
        of the 21st century bridge the foreign and domestic divide and 
        require a whole-of-Government approach in order for the United 
        States Government to operate in the most effective and 
        efficient manner; and
            (2) these challenges require that executive branch 
        personnel--
                    (A) view national security and homeland security 
                issues from a whole-of-Government perspective;
                    (B) understand the capabilities, authorities, 
                resources, and constraints of other agencies; and
                    (C) be able to rely upon networks and communities 
                of interest composed of personnel from other agencies 
                who work on the same national security or homeland 
                security issues.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to increase the efficiency 
and effectiveness of the Government by fostering greater interagency 
experience among executive branch personnel on national security and 
homeland security matters involving more than one agency.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Agency.--The term ``agency'' has the meaning given the 
        term ``Executive agency'' under section 105 of title 5, United 
        States Code.
            (2) Committee.--The term ``Committee'' means the Committee 
        on National Security Personnel established under section 5(a).
            (3) Covered agency.--The term ``covered agency'' means an 
        agency that is part of an ICI.
            (4) ICI.--The term ``ICI'' means a National Security 
        Interagency Community of Interest identified by the Committee 
        under section 6(a).
            (5) ICI position.--The term ``ICI position''--
                    (A) means--
                            (i) a position that--
                                    (I) is identified by the head of a 
                                covered agency as a position within 
                                that agency the primary duties of which 
                                relate to national security or homeland 
                                security policy formulation or 
                                execution;
                                    (II) is a position in the civil 
                                service (as defined in section 2101(1) 
                                of title 5, United States Code) in the 
                                executive branch of the Government for 
                                which the pay is at a rate at or 
                                greater than the minimum basic rate of 
                                pay for a position at GS-11 of the 
                                General Schedule; and
                                    (III) is a position within an ICI; 
                                or
                            (ii) a position in an interagency body 
                        identified as an ICI position by the Committee 
                        under section 6(c)(1); and
                    (B) shall not include--
                            (i) any position described under paragraph 
                        (10)(A) or (C); or
                            (ii) any position filled by an employee 
                        described under paragraph (10)(B).
            (6) Intelligence community.--The term ``intelligence 
        community'' has the meaning given under section 3(4) of the 
        National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)).
            (7) Interagency body.--The term ``interagency body'' means 
        an interagency body identified by the Committee under section 
        6(c)(1).
            (8) Interagency rotational service.--The term ``interagency 
        rotational service'' means service by an employee in--
                    (A) an ICI position that is--
                            (i) in--
                                    (I) a covered agency other than the 
                                covered agency employing the employee; 
                                or
                                    (II) an interagency body, without 
                                regard to whether the employee is 
                                employed by the agency in which the 
                                interagency body is located; and
                            (ii) in the same ICI as the position in 
                        which the employee serves or has served before 
                        serving in that ICI position; or
                    (B) in a position in an interagency body identified 
                by the Committee under section 6(c)(2).
            (9) National security interagency community of interest.--
        The term ``National Security Interagency Community of 
        Interest'' means the personnel of the executive branch of the 
        Government that--
                    (A) as a group are employees of multiple agencies 
                of the executive branch of the Government; and
                    (B) have significant responsibility for the same 
                substantive, functional, or regional subject area 
                related to national security or homeland security that 
                requires integration of the personnel and activities in 
                that area across multiple agencies to ensure that the 
                executive branch of the Government operates as a 
                single, cohesive enterprise to maximize mission success 
                and minimize cost.
            (10) Political appointee.--The term ``political appointee'' 
        means an individual who--
                    (A) is employed in a position described under 
                sections 5312 through 5316 of title 5, United States 
                Code, (relating to the Executive Schedule);
                    (B) is a limited term appointee, limited emergency 
                appointee, or noncareer appointee in the Senior 
                Executive Service, as defined under paragraphs (5), 
                (6), and (7), respectively, of section 3132(a) of title 
                5, United States Code; or
                    (C) is employed in a position in the executive 
                branch of the Government of a confidential or policy-
                determining character under schedule C of subpart C of 
                part 213 of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
            (11) Relevant committees of congress.--The term ``relevant 
        committees of Congress'' means--
                    (A) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee 
                on Armed Services, the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
                and Transportation, the Committee on Energy and Natural 
                Resources, the Committee on Finance, the Committee on 
                Foreign Relations, the Committee on Health, Labor, 
                Education, and Pensions, the Committee on Homeland 
                Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on the 
                Judiciary, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of 
                the Senate; and
                    (B) the Committee on Appropriations, the Committee 
                on Armed Services, the Committee on Energy and 
                Commerce, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 
                the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
                Homeland Security, the Committee on the Judiciary, the 
                Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the 
                Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the 
                Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
                Representatives.
            (12) Senior position.--The term ``senior position'' means--
                    (A) a Senior Executive Service position, as defined 
                in section 3132(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code;
                    (B) a position in the Senior Foreign Service 
                established under the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 
                U.S.C. 3901 et seq.);
                    (C) a position in the Federal Bureau of 
                Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration 
                Senior Executive Service established under section 3151 
                of title 5, United States Code; and
                    (D) any other equivalent position identified by the 
                Committee.

SEC. 4. STRATEGY AND PLANNING REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) National Security Human Capital Strategy.--
            (1) Issuing of strategy.--
                    (A) In general.--Except as provided in subparagraph 
                (B), not later than October 1 of the first fiscal year 
                after the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted, and 
                every 4 years thereafter, the Committee shall issue a 
                National Security Human Capital Strategy to develop the 
                national security and homeland security personnel 
                necessary for accomplishing national security and 
                homeland security objectives that require integration 
                of personnel and activities from multiple agencies of 
                the executive branch of the Government in order to 
                ensure that the executive branch of the Government 
                operates as a single, cohesive enterprise to maximize 
                mission success and minimize cost.
                    (B) Modified date.--If this Act is enacted on a 
                date that is less than 180 days before the end of the 
                fiscal year, then the Committee shall issue the 
                National Security Human Capital Strategy under this 
                paragraph not later than October 1 of the second fiscal 
                year after the fiscal year in which this Act is 
                enacted, and every 4 years thereafter.
            (2) Plan.--Each National Security Human Capital Strategy 
        issued under paragraph (1) shall include a plan that--
                    (A) provides for the phased implementation of this 
                Act;
                    (B) contains graduated and specific targets for the 
                percentages of senior positions in an ICI that--
                            (i) require interagency rotational service 
                        as an eligibility requirement;
                            (ii) ensures that, not later than October 1 
                        of the fifteenth fiscal year after the fiscal 
                        year in which this Act is enacted, not less 
                        than 85 percent of the ICI positions of each 
                        covered agency that are senior positions are 
                        designated under section 8(a)(1); and
                    (C) includes a schedule for the issuance of 
                directives relating to the requirements under this Act 
                by the Committee.
            (3) Submission to relevant committees of congress.--Not 
        later than 30 days after the date on which the Committee issues 
        a National Security Human Capital Strategy under paragraph (1), 
        the Committee shall submit that strategy to the relevant 
        committees of Congress.
    (b) Reports on Implementation.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 2 years after the date on 
        which the Committee issues a National Security Human Capital 
        Strategy under subsection (a), the Committee shall submit to 
        the relevant committees of Congress a report on the 
        implementation of the strategy and this Act.
            (2) Contents.--Each report submitted under paragraph (1) 
        shall include updates to the plan contained in the most recent 
        National Security Human Capital Strategy and detailed reporting 
        that is specific to each ICI and to each covered agency and 
        interagency body regarding--
                    (A) implementation of the National Security Human 
                Capital Strategy and this Act; and
                    (B) performance measures for the National Security 
                Human Capital Strategy and data on the performance 
                measures.

SEC. 5. COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY PERSONNEL.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established the Committee on National 
Security Personnel within the Executive Office of the President.
    (b) Membership.--The members of the Committee shall be the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget, the Director of the Office of 
Personnel Management, and the Assistant to the President for National 
Security Affairs.
    (c) Chairperson.--The Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget shall be the Chairperson of the Committee.
    (d) Functions.--
            (1) In general.--The Committee shall perform the functions 
        as provided under this Act to carry out service in an ICI 
        position in another covered agency or interagency body by 
        employees, the training required under section 9, and other 
        activities under this Act.
            (2) Directives.--
                    (A) In general.--In consultation with the Director 
                of the Office of Personnel Management and the Assistant 
                to the President for National Security Affairs, the 
                Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall 
                issue directives and set standards for service in an 
                ICI position in another covered agency or interagency 
                body, the training required under section 9, and other 
                activities under this Act, including the directives 
                specifically required under this Act.
                    (B) Use by covered agencies.--The head of each 
                covered agency shall carry out the responsibilities 
                under this Act in accordance with the directives issued 
                by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
                    (C) Submission to congress.--Not later than 30 days 
                after the date on which the Director of the Office of 
                Management and Budget issues a directive under this 
                Act, the Director shall submit the directive to the 
                relevant committees of Congress.
    (e) Support and Implementation.--
            (1) Board.--There is established a board to assist the 
        Committee, which shall be composed of 1 designee (who shall 
        serve in an Executive schedule position at level III) selected 
        by each of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, 
        the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, the 
        Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Energy, the 
        Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary of 
        Commerce, and the Director of National Intelligence.
            (2) Chief human capital officers council.--The Chief Human 
        Capital Officers Council shall provide advice to the Committee 
        regarding technical human capital issues relating to the 
        implementation of this Act.
            (3) Covered agency officials.--The head of each covered 
        agency shall designate an officer and office within that 
        covered agency with responsibility for the implementation of 
        this Act.

SEC. 6. NATIONAL SECURITY INTERAGENCY COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST.

    (a) Identification of ICIs.--The Committee--
            (1) shall identify ICIs on an ongoing basis for purposes of 
        carrying out this Act; and
            (2) may alter or discontinue an ICI identified under 
        paragraph (1).
    (b) Identification of ICI Positions.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (4), the head of each 
        covered agency shall identify ICI positions within that covered 
        agency.
            (2) Position with administrative or technical duties.--
                    (A) Exclusion for administrative duties.--A 
                position the primary duties of which relate to 
                administrative duties (including duties relating to 
                procurement, accounting, and finance) shall not be 
                identified as an ICI position.
                    (B) Technology duties.--
                            (i) In general.--The Committee shall 
                        determine which positions the primary duties of 
                        which relate to information technology or 
                        engineering may be identified as ICI positions 
                        by the head of a covered agency. The Committee 
                        may provide guidance regarding the positions 
                        that may be identified as ICI positions under 
                        this clause or approve the identification of 
                        the ICI positions on a case-by-case basis, as 
                        the Committee determines appropriate.
                            (ii) Information technology positions.--A 
                        position that relates to information technology 
                        may be identified as an ICI position for an ICI 
                        relating to cybersecurity.
            (3) Other provisions.--
                    (A) Multiple icis.--A position may be within more 
                than one ICI.
                    (B) Changes.--Subject to paragraph (4), the head of 
                a covered agency may change which positions are 
                identified as ICI positions or which ICI an ICI 
                position is within.
            (4) Review and approval by the committee.--
                    (A) In general.--The Committee shall--
                            (i) provide guidance to the heads of 
                        covered agencies concerning criteria for 
                        identifying or changing the identification of 
                        ICI positions;
                            (ii) establish criteria concerning 
                        identifications and changes to the 
                        identifications of ICI positions which may be 
                        made by the head of a covered agency and take 
                        effect without review and approval by the 
                        Committee;
                            (iii) establish criteria concerning 
                        identifications and changes to the 
                        identifications of ICI positions which may be 
                        made by the head of a covered agency and shall 
                        be reviewed and approved by the Committee 
                        before the identification or change may take 
                        effect; and
                            (iv) develop a schedule for the Committee 
                        to review identifications of and changes to the 
                        identifications of ICI positions that took 
                        effect without prior review and approval under 
                        the criteria established under clause (ii).
                    (B) Action by covered agencies.--The head of a 
                covered agency may not identify a position as an ICI 
                position or change an ICI position or which ICI an ICI 
                position is within if the identification or change is 
                not--
                            (i) authorized to be made without the 
                        advance authorization of the Committee under 
                        subparagraph (A)(ii); or
                            (ii) approved by the Committee under 
                        subparagraph (A)(iii).
    (c) Interagency Bodies.--
            (1) Identification.--
                    (A) In general.--The Committee shall identify--
                            (i) entities in the executive branch of the 
                        Government that are primarily involved in 
                        interagency activities; and
                            (ii) components of agencies that are 
                        primarily involved in interagency activities 
                        and have a mission distinct from the agency 
                        within which the component is located.
                    (B) Certain bodies.--The Committee shall identify 
                the National Security Council and the Directorate of 
                Strategic Operational Planning of the National 
                Counterterrorism Center as interagency bodies under 
                this paragraph.
            (2) Positions in interagency bodies.--
                    (A) In general.--For purposes of this Act--
                            (i) the Assistant to the President for 
                        National Security Affairs shall perform the 
                        duties of the head of a covered agency for ICI 
                        positions within the National Security Council;
                            (ii) the Director of the National 
                        Counterterrorism Center shall perform the 
                        duties of the head of a covered agency for ICI 
                        positions within the Directorate of Strategic 
                        Operational Planning of the National 
                        Counterterrorism Center; and
                            (iii) the Committee shall designate the 
                        Federal officer who shall perform the duties of 
                        the head of a covered agency for ICI positions 
                        within any other interagency body.
                    (B) Identification of positions.--The officials 
                described or designated under subparagraph (A) shall 
                identify--
                            (i) positions within their respective 
                        interagency bodies that are ICI positions; and
                            (ii) positions within their respective 
                        interagency bodies--
                                    (I) that are not within an ICI;
                                    (II) that are not a position 
                                described under section 3(10)(A) or (C) 
                                or a position filled by an employee 
                                described under section 3(10)(B); and
                                    (III) for which service in the 
                                position shall constitute interagency 
                                rotational service.
                    (C) Review and approval by the committee.--The 
                identification of, change of, and determinations 
                relating to positions described in subparagraph (B) by 
                a Federal officer described in or designated under 
                subparagraph (A) shall be subject to review and 
                approval by the Committee in the same manner and to the 
                same extent as provided for the head of a covered 
                agency under this Act.

SEC. 7. ICI ROTATIONAL SERVICE.

    (a) Exclusion of Senior Positions.--For purposes of this section, 
the term ``ICI position'' does not include a senior position.
    (b) Rotations.--
            (1) In general.--The Committee shall provide for employees 
        serving in an ICI position to be assigned on a rotational basis 
        to another ICI position that is--
                    (A) within another covered agency or within an 
                interagency body; and
                    (B) within the same ICI.
            (2) Service within multiple icis.--An employee who has 
        served or is serving in an ICI position that is within 2 or 
        more ICIs may be assigned to an ICI position in any of such 
        ICIs.
            (3) Exception.--An employee may be assigned to an ICI 
        position in another covered agency or in an interagency body 
        that is not in the ICI applicable to an ICI position in which 
        the employee serves or has served if--
                    (A) the employee has particular nongovernmental or 
                other expertise or skills that are relevant to the 
                assigned ICI position; and
                    (B) the head of the covered agency employing the 
                employee, the head of the covered agency to which the 
                assignment is made, and the Committee approve the 
                assignment.
            (4) Officers of the armed forces.--
                    (A) Service in icis.--The policies, procedures, and 
                practices for the management of officers of the Armed 
                Forces established pursuant to section 661 of title 10, 
                United States Code, may provide for the assignment of 
                officers of the Armed Forces to ICI positions or 
                positions designated under section 6(c)(2)(B)(ii) and 
                for the treatment of such assignments as joint duty 
                assignments for purposes of chapter 38 of such title.
                    (B) Directives.--The Committee shall specify the 
                requirements and limitations applicable to the 
                assignment of officers of the Armed Forces to ICI 
                positions or positions designated under section 
                6(c)(2)(B)(ii). The directives specifying such 
                requirements and limitations shall be issued with the 
                concurrence of the Secretary of Defense.
            (5) Return to prior position.--
                    (A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), an 
                employee performing service in an ICI position in 
                another covered agency or interagency body or in a 
                position designated under section 6(c)(2)(B)(ii) shall 
                be entitled to return to the position held by the 
                employee in the covered agency employing the employee 
                within a reasonable period of time after the end of the 
                period of service.
                    (B) Reasonable exceptions.--The Committee shall 
                determine under what circumstances it is reasonable to 
                make an exception to the requirement under subparagraph 
                (A) and issue guidance regarding making such an 
                exception.
    (c) Voluntary Nature of Rotational Service.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), 
        service in an ICI position in another covered agency or 
        interagency body shall be voluntary by an employee.
            (2) Authority to assign involuntarily.--If the head of a 
        covered agency has the authority under another provision of law 
        to assign an employee involuntarily to a position and the 
        employee is serving in an ICI position, the head of the covered 
        agency may assign the employee involuntarily to serve in an ICI 
        position in another covered agency or interagency body.
    (d) Directives.--
            (1) Identification of positions open for rotational 
        service.--The Committee shall--
                    (A) require, and provide guidelines relating to, 
                the identification by the head of each covered agency 
                of ICI positions in the covered agency that are open 
                for assignment of employees serving or who have served 
                in ICI positions in other covered agencies or an 
                interagency body;
                    (B) specify how many ICI positions the head of each 
                covered agency shall make available for assignment of 
                employees serving or who have served in ICI positions 
                in other covered agencies or an interagency body; and
                    (C) ensure that each ICI position in a covered 
                agency or interagency body that is available for 
                assignment of an employee from another covered agency 
                or interagency body is filled by an employee serving in 
                a position with a level of responsibility comparable to 
                the position that is available for assignment.
            (2) Minimum period for service.--With respect to the period 
        of service in an ICI position in another covered agency or 
        interagency body, the Committee--
                    (A) shall ensure that the period of service is 
                sufficient to gain an adequately detailed understanding 
                and perspective of the covered agency or interagency 
                body at which the employee is assigned;
                    (B) may provide for different periods for service, 
                depending upon the nature of the position, including 
                whether the position is in an area that is a combat 
                zone for purposes of section 112 of the Internal 
                Revenue Code of 1986; and
                    (C) shall require that an employee performing 
                service in an ICI position in another covered agency or 
                interagency body is informed of the period of service 
                for the position before beginning such service.
    (e) Selection of ICI Positions Open for Rotational Service.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the head of each 
        covered agency shall determine which ICI positions in the 
        covered agency shall be available to be filled by employees 
        from another covered agency and may modify a determination 
        under this paragraph.
            (2) Review of determination of ici positions open for 
        rotational service.--
                    (A) In general.--The Committee shall--
                            (i) provide guidance to the heads of 
                        covered agencies concerning criteria for 
                        determining and modifying determinations of 
                        which ICI positions are available to be filled 
                        by employees from another covered agency;
                            (ii) establish criteria concerning 
                        determinations and modifications to 
                        determinations regarding ICI positions that are 
                        available to be filled by employees from 
                        another covered agency which may be made by the 
                        head of a covered agency and take effect 
                        without review and approval by the Committee;
                            (iii) establish criteria concerning which 
                        determinations and modifications to 
                        determinations regarding ICI positions that are 
                        available to be filled by employees from 
                        another covered agency may be made by the head 
                        of a covered agency and shall be reviewed and 
                        approved by the Committee before the 
                        determination or modification may take effect; 
                        and
                            (iv) develop a schedule for the Committee 
                        to review determinations and modifications to 
                        determinations that an ICI position is 
                        available to be filled by employees from 
                        another covered agency that took effect without 
                        prior review and approval under the criteria 
                        established under clause (ii).
                    (B) Action by covered agencies.--The head of a 
                covered agency may not determine an ICI position as 
                available to be filled by employees from another 
                covered agency or make a modification of the 
                determination if the determination or modification is 
                not--
                            (i) authorized to be made without the 
                        advance authorization of the Committee under 
                        subparagraph (A)(ii); or
                            (ii) approved by the Committee under 
                        subparagraph (A)(iii).
            (3) List.--The Committee shall maintain a single, 
        integrated list of positions available to be filled by 
        employees from another covered agency under this section and 
        shall make the list available to Federal employees on an 
        ongoing basis in order to facilitate applications for the 
        positions and long-term career planning by employees of the 
        executive branch of the Government, except to the extent that 
        the Committee determines that the identity of certain positions 
        should not be distributed in order to protect national security 
        or homeland security.
    (f) Prevention of Need for Increased Personnel Levels.--
            (1) Phase-In.--The Committee shall phase in the requirement 
        to designate ICI positions for assignment across covered 
        agencies in a manner that ensures that there is a reasonable 
        equivalence between the number of employees rotating out of the 
        covered agencies or interagency bodies within an ICI and the 
        number of employees rotating into the covered agencies or 
        interagency bodies within an ICI.
            (2) Filling positions rotating out.--The Committee shall 
        ensure that employees are rotated across covered agencies and 
        interagency bodies within an ICI in a manner that ensures that 
        the original ICI positions of all employees performing service 
        in an ICI position in another covered agency or interagency 
        body are filled within a reasonable period by--
                    (A) employees from another covered agency or 
                interagency body who are performing service in an ICI 
                position in another covered agency or interagency body; 
                or
                    (B) other available employees.
    (g) Open and Fair Competition.--Each covered agency or interagency 
body that has an ICI position available to be filled by an employee 
from another covered agency shall coordinate with the Office of 
Personnel Management to ensure that the position is filled in a fully 
open and competitive manner that is consistent with the merit system 
principles set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 2301(b) of 
title 5, United States Code, except if the ICI position is otherwise 
exempt under another provision of law.
    (h) Collective Bargaining Rights and Other Personnel Law Matters.--
            (1) National security exclusion.--The identification of a 
        position as available for service by an employee of another 
        covered agency or as being within an ICI shall not be a basis 
        for an order under section 7103(b) of title 5, United States 
        Code, excluding the covered agency, or a subdivision thereof, 
        in which the position is located from the applicability of 
        chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code.
            (2) On rotation.--An employee performing service in an ICI 
        position in another covered agency or interagency body shall 
        have collective bargaining rights to the extent and in the 
        manner that such rights would be available to the employee if 
        the employee were detailed or assigned under a provision of law 
        other than this Act from the agency employing the employee to 
        the agency in which the ICI position in which the employee is 
        serving is located.
            (3) Consultation.--The Committee shall consult with 
        relevant associations, unions, and other groups involved in 
        collective bargaining or encouraging public service or 
        organizational reform of the Government in formulating and 
        implementing policies under this Act.
    (i) Reporting.--Not later than 1 year after the date on which the 
Committee issues the first National Security Human Capital Strategy 
under section 4(a)(1), and every year thereafter, the Committee shall 
submit to the relevant committees of Congress--
            (1) a consolidated list of ICI positions, which shall 
        include an explanation of the reasons that each position was 
        identified as being within the ICI; and
            (2) a consolidated list of ICI positions made available to 
        be filled by employees from another covered agency, which shall 
        include an explanation of the methodology used by the covered 
        agency in determining which positions were and were not to be 
        made available.

SEC. 8. INTERAGENCY ROTATIONAL SERVICE AS A REQUIREMENT FOR SELECTION 
              TO SENIOR POSITIONS IN ICIS.

    (a) Requirement for Promotion to Selected Senior Positions Within 
ICIs.--Except as otherwise provided in this section, the head of each 
covered agency shall--
            (1) designate ICI positions of the covered agency that are 
        senior positions for which interagency rotational service shall 
        be an eligibility requirement; and
            (2) not later than October 1 of the fifteenth fiscal year 
        after the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted, designate 
        not less than 85 percent of the ICI positions of the covered 
        agency that are senior positions to be senior positions for 
        which interagency rotational service shall be an eligibility 
        requirement.
    (b) Exemptions.--
            (1) In general.--An employee may be appointed to a senior 
        position designated under subsection (a) without meeting the 
        interagency rotational service requirement if before the 
        appointment the employee--
                    (A) is not employed in the executive branch of the 
                Government when selected for the senior position;
                    (B) is serving in a senior position that is not an 
                ICI position;
                    (C) has not served in the executive branch of the 
                Government for a sufficient period, as determined by 
                the Committee, to have performed interagency rotational 
                service;
                    (D) entered service in the executive branch of the 
                Government at or above GS-15 of the General Schedule, 
                or equivalent;
                    (E) has prior service in another agency that 
                provides the employee with relevant experience in the 
                applicable ICI, as determined by the Committee; or
                    (F) is in another class of employees exempted from 
                subsection (a) by the Committee.
            (2) Notice.--Not later than 30 days after the date on which 
        the Committee determines to exempt a class of employees under 
        paragraph (1)(F), the Committee shall notify the relevant 
        committees of Congress of the exemption.
    (c) Waivers.--
            (1) In general.--On a case-by-case basis, the head of a 
        covered agency may waive the requirement that an employee being 
        appointed to a senior position designated under subsection (a) 
        has performed interagency rotational service.
            (2) Years 3 to 8.--During the period beginning on October 1 
        of the second fiscal year after the fiscal year in which this 
        Act is enacted and ending on September 30 of the seventh fiscal 
        year after the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted, the 
        head of a covered agency may issue a waiver under paragraph (1) 
        for good cause.
            (3) Years 9 to 15.--During the period beginning October 1 
        of the eighth fiscal year after the fiscal year in which this 
        Act is enacted and ending on September 30 of the fourteenth 
        fiscal year after the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted, 
        the head of a covered agency may issue a waiver under paragraph 
        (1) if--
                    (A) there is a lack of qualified candidates for the 
                senior position who have satisfied the requirement 
                under subsection (a);
                    (B) a lack of sufficient positions available to be 
                filled by employees from another covered agency 
                prevented the most qualified candidate for the senior 
                position from completing interagency rotational 
                service; or
                    (C) the most qualified candidate for the senior 
                position has prior service in a position in another 
                agency that, although involving duties comparable to an 
                ICI position, does not qualify as interagency 
                rotational service.
            (4) After year 15.--
                    (A) In general.--After the period described in 
                paragraph (3), the head of a covered agency may issue a 
                waiver under paragraph (1) if--
                            (i) there are extraordinary circumstances 
                        relating to the senior position; and
                            (ii) the Committee concurs with issuing the 
                        waiver.
                    (B) Nondelegation.--The authority to issue a waiver 
                under paragraph (1) may not be delegated after the 
                period described in paragraph (3).
            (5) Reporting.--Not later than 30 days after the date on 
        which a waiver is issued under paragraph (1), the Committee 
        shall submit to the relevant committees of Congress a report 
        containing a description of the waiver and an explanation of 
        the justification for the waiver.
    (d) Other Rotational Requirements.--
            (1) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    (A) DHS rotational service program.--The term ``DHS 
                rotational service program'' means any program 
                established before the date of enactment of this Act 
                that provides for rotation assignments of employees 
                within the Department of Homeland Security.
                    (B) IC rotational service program.--The term ``IC 
                rotational service program'' means any program 
                established before the date of enactment of this Act 
                that provides for rotation assignments of employees 
                across the agencies or elements of the intelligence 
                community.
            (2) Department of homeland security.--If an employee of the 
        Department of Homeland Security has performed service in an ICI 
        position in another covered agency or interagency body, the 
        employee may not be denied an appointment to a senior position 
        in the Department of Homeland Security because of any other 
        requirement to perform service on a rotational basis under a 
        DHS rotational service program.
            (3) Officers of the armed forces.--Section 668(b) of title 
        10, United States Code, is amended--
                    (A) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph 
                (3); and
                    (B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following 
                new paragraph (2):
    ``(2)(A) The definition required by paragraph (1) may provide for 
the treatment as a joint duty assignment of any assignment of officers 
to an ICI position or a position in an interagency body that is not an 
ICI position as the Secretary may specify in the regulations required 
by that paragraph.
    ``(B) In this paragraph, the terms `ICI position' and `interagency 
body' have the meanings given those terms in section 3 of the 
Interagency Personnel Rotation Act of 2011.''.
            (4) Credit for service in another component within an 
        agency.--
                    (A) In general.--During the first 8 fiscal years 
                after the fiscal year in which this Act is enacted, an 
                employee that performed service in a rotation to 
                another component of the covered agency that employs 
                the employee identified under subparagraph (B) may be 
                appointed to an ICI position that is a senior position 
                in that covered agency without regard to any 
                designation under subsection (a).
                    (B) Identification of components.--Subject to 
                approval by the Committee, the head of a covered agency 
                may identify the components of the covered agency that 
                are sufficiently independent in functionality for 
                service in a rotation in the component to qualify as 
                service in another component of the covered agency for 
                purposes of subparagraph (A).
            (5) Intelligence community personnel.--During the first 8 
        fiscal years after the fiscal year in which this Act is 
        enacted, an employee of a covered agency that performed service 
        in a rotation in the intelligence community under an IC 
        rotational service program may be appointed to an ICI position 
        that is a senior position in that covered agency without regard 
        to any designation under subsection (a).
            (6) Reports.--The head of each covered agency shall include 
        information relating to this subsection in any relevant report 
        to the relevant committees of Congress required under this Act.
    (e) Performance Appraisals.--The Committee shall--
            (1) ensure that the employees receive performance 
        evaluations that are based primarily on their contribution to 
        the work of the covered agency in which the employee is 
        performing service in an ICI position in another covered agency 
        or interagency body and the functioning of the applicable ICI; 
        and
            (2) require that--
                    (A) officials at the covered agency employing the 
                employee conduct the evaluations based on input from 
                the supervisors of the employee during service in an 
                ICI position in another covered agency or interagency 
                body; and
                    (B) the evaluations shall be provided the same 
                weight in the receipt of promotions and other rewards 
                by the employee from the covered agency employing the 
                employee as performance evaluations receive for other 
                employees of the covered agency.
    (f) Incentives for Participation.--The Committee shall identify 
ways in which the head of a covered agency shall use the authorities of 
the head of the covered agency to institute incentives to encourage 
employees to perform service in an ICI position in another covered 
agency or interagency body, regardless of the interest of any employee 
to be promoted to an ICI position that is a senior position.
    (g) Foreign Service.--Section 607(a) of the Foreign Service Act of 
1980 (22 U.S.C. 4007(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(4) At the election of an individual subject to a maximum time in 
class limitation under this subsection, any period of service in an ICI 
position (as defined in section 3 of the Interagency Personnel Rotation 
Act of 2011) that is not within the Department of State shall not be 
used for purposes of determining the period during which the individual 
has served in a class.''.

SEC. 9. EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR PERSONNEL SERVING IN INTERAGENCY 
              COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST.

    (a) Training and Education Requirements.--
            (1) Participation by personnel in ici positions.--
                    (A) Orientation training and education.--During the 
                second fiscal year after the fiscal year in which this 
                Act is enacted, and each fiscal year thereafter, each 
                employee serving in an ICI position shall participate 
                in orientation training and education.
                    (B) Ongoing training and education.--During the 
                third fiscal year after the fiscal year in which this 
                Act is enacted, and each fiscal year thereafter, each 
                employee serving in an ICI position shall participate 
                in ongoing training and education.
            (2) Failure to obtain training and education.--An employee 
        serving in an ICI position who does not successfully complete 
        the orientation training and education and the ongoing training 
        and education required under paragraph (1) may not perform 
        service in an ICI position in another covered agency or 
        interagency body.
            (3) Contents of training.--The training and education 
        required under paragraph (1) shall include training and 
        education on--
                    (A) national security and homeland security 
                strategy, both general and as relevant to the 
                applicable ICI;
                    (B) the criticality of interagency integration for 
                accomplishing national security and homeland security 
                objectives in an efficient and effective manner;
                    (C) the roles, functions, authorities, cultures, 
                and resources of agencies involved in the applicable 
                ICI; and
                    (D) practical skills and strategies for ensuring 
                maximum interagency cohesion, including effective 
                meeting management, project management, negotiation, 
                and interagency team-building.
            (4) Online training.--Unless the Committee determines that 
        the benefits of an in-person training for increasing 
        interagency coordination to improve interagency effectiveness 
        and efficiency outweigh the cost, the training and education 
        required under paragraph (1) shall be online.
    (b) Use of Consortium.--
            (1) In general.--The Committee may use a consortium of 
        agencies, educational institutions, and nongovernmental 
        organizations to provide the training and education required 
        under this section, including by the use of preexisting courses 
        and materials.
            (2) Inclusions.--The consortium used under paragraph (1) 
        may include Government educational entities such as the Foreign 
        Service Institute, the National Defense University, the Army 
        War College, and the Naval War College, if the head of the 
        agency of which the educational entity is a component 
        determines that participation in the training and education 
        will not adversely impact the capabilities of the agency.

SEC. 10. INTERAGENCY PROCESS AND STRATEGIES TRAINING FOR POLITICAL 
              APPOINTEES.

    (a) Establishment.--
            (1) In general.--Subject to the direction of the Committee, 
        the Office of Personnel Management shall establish a course for 
        political appointees relating to the objectives, history, and 
        functioning of the senior-level interagency process and 
        strategies for ensuring maximum interagency cohesion and the 
        accomplishment of national security and homeland security 
        objectives in an efficient and effective manner.
            (2) Length of course.--The length of a course established 
        under paragraph (1) may be different for different positions, 
        based on the seniority of the position and other factors as the 
        Committee determines appropriate.
    (b) Requirement.--Not later than 120 days after an individual is 
appointed to a position which makes the individual a political 
appointee, that individual shall take the course established under 
subsection (a).
    (c) Application.--This section shall apply to appointments made on 
and after the end of the fiscal year following the fiscal year in which 
this Act is enacted.
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