[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 89 (Thursday, June 4, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3799-S3800]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1663. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr. McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2016 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to 
prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1085. MODIFICATION OF FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION TO 
                   ENCOURAGE GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS TO HIRE 
                   VETERANS WITH MILITARY TRAINING IN CYBER AND 
                   CYBER-RELATED FIELDS.

       The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall 
     direct the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to issue 
     proposed rules by not later than 60 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act and, final rules by not later than 
     270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act that 
     amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation--
       (1) to require contractors who are subject to the cost 
     accounting standards under the Federal Acquisition Regulation 
     and who received at least $25,000,000 in aggregated contracts 
     in each of the prior two fiscal years to develop and maintain 
     a single company-wide veterans employment plan that, at a 
     minimum, includes--
       (A) performance metrics for the hiring and training of 
     veterans;
       (B) a plan to hire veterans, with a particular focus on 
     veterans who served on active duty in the Armed Forces after 
     September 11, 2001; and
       (C) actions that can be used for training veterans for 
     civilian certifications not later than one year after hiring 
     them in skills applicable to Government contracts relating to 
     cyber and cyber related work;
       (2) to encourage Federal agencies to modify or waive a 
     skill required for the performance of an awarded contract 
     when the contract supports cyber or cyber-related work and is 
     to be performed by a veteran assigned to work on such 
     contract and the contractor provides training to the veteran 
     in order to meet the modified or waived requirement by not 
     later than one year after the date of such assignment;
       (3) to require contractors to validate that--

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       (A) the veterans hired by the contractors after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act meet the minimum skill 
     qualification requirements under the contract based on 
     military training; and
       (B) the contractors provide training to such veterans in 
     order to meet the original qualification requirement of such 
     contract within one year of such assignment; and
       (4) to modify such audit, oversight, and allowable cost 
     requirements as may be applicable to Federal contracts to 
     recognize and take into account the actions taken by a 
     contractor under paragraph (3) as being in compliance with 
     the terms and conditions of a contract.
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