S.Amdt. 1802

SA 1802. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 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. __. INCLUSION OF NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
IN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
AUTHORITY TO ATTRACT EXPERTS IN SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING.

(a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 1599h of title
10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following new paragraph:
``(7) National geospatial-intelligence agency.--The
Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency may
carry out a program of personnel management authority
provided in subsection (b) in order to facilitate recruitment
of eminent experts in science or engineering for the
Agency.''.
(b) Scope of Appointment Authority.--Subsection (b)(1) of
such section is amended--
(1) in subparagraph (E), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in subparagraph (F), by adding ``and'' at the end; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
``(G) in the case of the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency, appoint scientists and engineers to a total of not
more than 5 scientific and engineering positions in the
Agency;''.
(c) Enhanced Pay Authority.--Subsection (b)(2)(A) of such
section is amended--
(1) by striking ``paragraph (1)(B)'' and inserting
``subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1)''; and
(2) by inserting ``or employees appointed pursuant to
subparagraph (G) of such paragraph to any of 3 positions
designated by the Director of the National Geospatial-
Intelligence Agency'' after ``this subparagraph''.
(d) Extension of Terms of Appointment.--Subsection (c)(2)
of such section is amended by striking ``or the Joint
Artificial Intelligence Center'' and inserting ``the Joint
Artificial Intelligence Center, or the National Geospatial-
Intelligence Agency''.
(e) Study Required.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for
Intelligence and Security and the Director of National
Intelligence shall jointly submit to the appropriate
committees of Congress a study on the utility of providing
elements of the intelligence community of the Department of
Defense, other than the National Geospatial-Intelligence
Agency, personnel management authority to attract experts in
science and engineering under section 1599h of title 10,
United States Code.
(2) Definitions.--In this subsection:
(A) Appropriate committees of congress.--The term
``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
(i) the Committee on Armed Services and the Select
Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
(ii) the Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
Representatives.
(B) Intelligence community.--The term ``intelligence
community'' has the meaning given such term in section 3 of
the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003).
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