S.Amdt. 283

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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