[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 126 (Wednesday, July 26, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S4314]
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  SA 283. Mr. ROUNDS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
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 C of title XVI, add the following:

     SEC. 1630C. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON USE OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL 
                   PERSONNEL ACT MOBILITY PROGRAM AND DEPARTMENT 
                   OF DEFENSE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXCHANGE 
                   PROGRAM TO OBTAIN PERSONNEL WITH CYBER SKILLS 
                   AND ABILITIES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) the Department of Defense should fully use the 
     Intergovernmental Personnel Act Mobility Program (IPAMP) and 
     the Department of Defense Information Technology Exchange 
     Program (ITEP) to obtain cyber personnel across the 
     Government by leveraging cyber capabilities found at the 
     State and local government level and in the private sector in 
     order to meet the needs of the Department for cybersecurity 
     professionals; and
       (2) the Department should implement at the earliest 
     practicable date a strategy that includes policies and plans 
     to fully use such programs to obtain such personnel for the 
     Department.
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