S.Amdt. 311

SA 311. Mr. CARDIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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 title XI, add the following:

SEC. 1106. REPORTS ON USE OF DIRECT HIRING AUTHORITIES BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Defense (with respect to the
Department of Defense) and each Secretary of a military
department (with respect to such military department) shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a report on
the use by the department concerned of direct hiring
authority (DHA) for civilian employees of such department.
Each report shall set forth the following:
(1) Citations to each of the direct hiring authorities
currently available to the department concerned.
(2) The current number of civilian employees of the
department concerned who were hired using direct hiring
authority (whether or not such authority is currently in
force), and the grade level and occupational series of such
civilian employees.
(3) A description and assessment of the challenges, if any,
faced by the department concerned in hiring civilian
employees for critical positions and occupational series, and
a description and assessment of the role of current or
potential direct hiring authorities in addressing such
challenges.
(4) A proposal for increasing the number of civilian
employees of the department concerned who are employed using
direct hiring authority.
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