S.Amdt. 2815

SA 2815. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. Brown) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 2282 proposed by Mr.
Inhofe (for himself and Mr. McCain) to the bill H.R. 5515, to authorize
appropriations for fiscal year 2019 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 A of title XI, add the following:

SEC. ___. REPORT ON SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE MOBILITY IN
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FIELDS.

(a) Report Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall enter
into an agreement with a Federally funded research and
development center to submit to the congressional defense
committees, not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, a report on the effects of rotating
members of the Senior Executive Service of the Department of
Defense in science and technology fields. The report shall
include interviews with current and former members of such
the Senior Executive Service of the Department of Defense in
science and technology and personnel managers in science and
technology organizations.
(b) Elements.--The report required under paragraph (1)
shall include the following elements:
(1) A description and comparison of policies of each of the
military departments and the Office of the Secretary of
Defense relating to positions in the Senior Executive Service
in science and technology fields.
(2) A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of
Senior Executive Service mobility and whether the policy
should be different for positions in science and technology
fields.
(3) Identification of positions in the Senior Executive
Service that may have been misclassified as technical
positions.
(4) An assessment of the extent to which mobility
requirements of the Senior Executive Service are a factor in
retirement or recruitment, and whether that differs for
science and technology fields from other fields.
(5) Such recommendations for legislative or administrative
action as the Federally funded research and development
center may have with respect to rotating members of the
Senior Executive Service of the Department in science and
technology fields.
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