S.Amdt. 1663

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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