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111th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6249
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 29, 2010
Mr. Skelton (for himself and Mr. Davis of Kentucky) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
A BILL
To create a system to educate, train, and develop interagency national security professionals across the Government; to require personnel selected for senior-level interagency national security positions to meet interagency education, training, and experience requirements; to provide appropriate interagency training, education, and assignment opportunities for national security professionals throughout their careers; and to authorize funds and create program structures for implementation of the system.
Short title; constitutional authority
Short title
This Act may be cited
as the Interagency National Security
Professional Education, Administration, and Development System Act of
2010
.
Constitutional authority
This Act is enacted pursuant to the power granted Congress under article I, section 8 of the United States Constitution.
Findings; purpose; rule of construction
Findings
Congress finds the following:
Employees with
responsibility for national security matters within the executive branch of the
Government (hereinafter in this Act referred to as national security
professionals
) are extraordinarily dedicated and talented individuals
who sacrifice a great deal to keep our Nation safe, secure, and
prosperous.
Modern national security challenges are complex and dynamic, and frequently require integration of the full spectrum of the capabilities and power of the United States and its allies to successfully address and manage those challenges.
The current agency-centric
cultures, incentives, and structures within the United States national security
system prevent full and effective interagency cooperation and coordination,
leaving the Nation vulnerable to complex and dynamic modern national security
threats.
It is imperative to the national security of the United States that our national security professionals are provided with the interagency knowledge, skills, and experience they need to effectively integrate and utilize the full capabilities and power of the United States and its allies to address national security challenges.
A transformation in the Government’s approach to educating, training, and developing its national security professionals is needed.
Purpose
The purpose of this Act is to establish the Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System, which will—
develop the interagency knowledge, skills, and experience of national security professionals working within the agencies of the Government by—
creating interagency national security education, training, and assignment opportunities for national security professionals; and
incentivizing national security professionals to undertake and their employing agencies to encourage such opportunities;
ensure that individuals occupying senior-level interagency national security positions have been thoroughly prepared to seek out, recognize, and execute interagency solutions to national security challenges;
provide increased consistency for educating, training, and developing national security professionals across the Government, while leaving individual agencies sufficient flexibility to meet their specific needs and ensure that agency-specific skills, competencies, and capabilities remain robust; and
over time, augment agency cultures with interagency perspectives and enhanced interagency collaboration, thereby leading to better national security policy, better mission execution, and a safer, more secure, and more prosperous Nation.
Rules of construction
Nothing in this Act, or any amendment made by this Act, shall be construed to affect—
the collective bargaining status or rights of any Federal employees or unit thereof; or
any individual’s eligibility for benefits, or the amount of any benefits payable to an individual, under a retirement system maintained by the United States for officers or employees of the United States or for members of the uniformed services.
Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System
In general
Title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System
10201. Definitions.
10202. Establishment and governance of Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System.
10203. Identification of interagency national security positions.
10204. Interagency qualification.
10205. Senior-level interagency national security positions.
10206. Interagency assignment defined.
10207. Interagency National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium.
10208. Funding, personnel float, and restriction on usage of funds.
10209. Reporting requirements.
10210. Implementation schedule.
Definitions
For purposes of this chapter—
the term Government means the Government of the United States;
the term national security professional means an employee of an Executive agency who plans, coordinates, or participates, in a substantive manner, in activities relating to national security matters;
the term national security matter means any matter that, as determined consistent with guidance issued by the President, relates to threats to the United States, its people, property, or interests, including threats from—
human actions, intentional or otherwise;
acts of nature; or
accidents;
the term agency means an Executive agency;
the term intelligence agency has the meaning given such term by section 504 of the National Security Act of 1947;
the term intelligence community has the meaning given such term by section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947;
the term INSPEAD System or System means the Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System, as described in section 10202;
the term Executive Steering Committee means the committee described in section 10202(d);
the term Integration Office means the office established by or designated pursuant to section 10202(e);
the term Interagency National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium or Consortium means the consortium established by section 10207(a); and
the term Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System Fund means the fund established by section 10208(a).
Establishment and governance of Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System
Establishment
The President shall establish and maintain
a system for the interagency education, training, and professional development
of national security professionals, which shall be known as the
Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration,
and Development System
.
Purpose
The purpose of the INSPEAD System shall be to foster the development of exceptional national security professionals across the Government by—
developing the interagency knowledge, skills, and abilities of national security professionals;
providing opportunities and incentives for national security professionals to undertake interagency education, training, and assignments;
ensuring that individuals occupying senior-level national security positions have the interagency knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience needed to seek out, recognize, and execute interagency solutions to national security challenges;
providing increased consistency for educating, training, and developing national security professionals across agencies, while ensuring sufficient flexibility for individual agencies to continue to meet their agency-specific needs; and
augmenting agency cultures with interagency perspective and vision, encouraging the exchange of ideas and information between agencies, and building trust and familiarity between personnel in different agencies.
Participation
The following agencies shall participate in the INSPEAD System:
The Department of State.
The Department of Defense.
The Department of Justice.
The Department of the Treasury.
The Department of Energy.
The Department of Homeland Security.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and all other intelligence agencies within the intelligence community.
The Department of Commerce.
The Department of Transportation.
The Department of Agriculture.
The Department of Health and Human Services.
The United States Agency for International Development.
Such other agencies as the President may designate.
Executive Steering Committee
There is
established a committee which shall be known as the Executive Steering
Committee
and the members of which shall consist of—
the head of each agency (or designee thereof, not lower than the rank of assistant Secretary or its equivalent) participating in the System, as identified in subsection (c);
the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (or designee thereof);
the president of the United States Institute of Peace (or designee thereof); and
the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (or designee thereof) or, as designated by the President, such Assistant’s successor in function (or designee thereof).
The Director of National Intelligence (or designee thereof) shall represent the entire intelligence community on the Executive Steering Committee, except as provided in paragraph (3)(B).
The President may, if, in the judgment of the President, national security or the operation of the INSPEAD System would be enhanced thereby, require that any of the following also serve as members of the Executive Steering Committee:
The head of any agency not otherwise participating in the System.
The head of any intelligence agency within the intelligence community, other than the Director of National Intelligence.
The member under paragraph (1)(D) shall serve as the chair of the Executive Steering Committee.
The President, with the advice of the chair of the Executive Steering Committee, shall establish policies regarding the governance and operations of the Executive Steering Committee.
Integration Office
An office, to be
known as the Integration Office
, shall be established or
designated within the Executive Office of the President—
to perform overall coordination of activities and policies relating to the INSPEAD System;
to ensure the implementation and execution of the policies of the System, including by overseeing the activities of the participating agencies relating to the System;
to advise the Executive Steering Committee on matters and policies relating to the System;
to support the functions of the Interagency National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium and Board of Regents established pursuant to section 10207; and
to support the functions of the Executive Steering Committee.
The agencies participating in the System shall, in a manner consistent with otherwise applicable provisions of law, provide assistance, support, and access to information to the Integration Office for the performance of its duties.
Policies and procedures
The Executive Steering Committee shall establish policies and procedures for governing, implementing, and executing the INSPEAD System, including policies and procedures relating to—
the interagency knowledge, skills, experience, abilities, and qualifications desired or required of national security professionals at all career levels across all agencies participating in the System, particularly individuals holding interagency national security positions;
criteria for the identification of interagency national security positions at all career levels within all agencies participating in the System;
guidance on the management of national security professionals and positions across the Government, such that interagency assignments are available, encouraged, and incentivized;
the development, management, and coordination of interagency educational opportunities for national security professionals;
the development, management, and coordination of interagency training opportunities for national security professionals;
overseeing and monitoring the careers of employees who undertake interagency assignments, education, and training opportunities offered by the System;
ensuring that employees who undertake interagency assignments, education, and training opportunities are promoted and rewarded at rates not less than those of individuals who do not;
incentivizing employees to participate in the System and pursue interagency qualification, which may include consideration for accelerated promotion, one-time compensation bonuses, and a General Schedule step increase (or the equivalent) upon completion of an interagency qualification level;
the management of the Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System Fund; and
the operation and functions of the Integration Office.
Identification of interagency national security positions
Criteria
In order to carry out this section, the Executive Steering Committee shall establish the criteria to be used in determining which positions within an agency are interagency national security positions. Such criteria shall include, for each career level (as identified under this subsection based on position duties and responsibilities)—
a position’s involvement or participation in the planning, coordination, or execution of activities relating to national security matters;
a position’s required or desired level of interaction and engagement with other agencies; and
such other criteria as the Executive Steering Committee considers appropriate.
Initial identification and subsequent review
Each agency participating in the INSPEAD
System, as identified under section 10202(c), shall identify and thereafter
periodically review, with the assistance of the Integration Office and the
Office of Personnel Management, all positions within such agency that meet the
criteria for inclusion in the System as interagency national security
positions
and designate those positions accordingly.
Procedures for new positions
The Executive Steering Committee shall establish and publish policies and procedures for determining whether newly created positions meet the criteria developed pursuant to this section and must be designated interagency national security positions before being filled.
Exemption for presidential appointees
In general
This chapter and the System do not apply to any position to which an individual is appointed by the President or to the individual holding any such position.
Sense of Congress
It is the sense of Congress that, in the selection and appointment of any individual for a position that (but for paragraph (1)) would otherwise meet the criteria for an interagency national security position, due consideration should be given to such individual’s interagency experience and qualifications.
Recruitment
Job announcements for interagency national security positions shall solicit applications from the widest population allowable by law.
Interagency qualification
Interagency qualification levels
The Executive Steering Committee shall establish various levels of interagency qualification for national security professionals, as well as the requirements for employees to achieve qualification at each level. Each level shall, at a minimum, have—
interagency education requirements;
interagency training requirements; and
interagency experience or assignment requirements.
Qualification levels required or desired for filling interagency national security positions
Using guidance established by the Executive Steering Committee, and with assistance from the Integration Office, the agencies participating in the INSPEAD System shall identify, for each interagency national security position identified pursuant to section 10203, the interagency qualification level required or desired of employees filling such positions.
Normal procedures
The Executive Steering Committee, with the assistance of the Integration Office, shall establish and publish normal procedures for individuals to achieve the requirements for various levels of interagency qualification. These procedures shall describe what interagency education, training, and assignment opportunities enable an employee to meet the requirements for interagency qualification at various levels.
Review procedures
The Executive Steering Committee, with the assistance of the Integration Office, shall establish and publish procedures for individuals to apply for a review of work assignments, education, training, and other appropriate experiences that are undertaken outside of the normal procedures of the INSPEAD System and for which the individual desires to receive interagency qualification credit. To encourage the participating agencies to continue to seek exceptional talent from all sources, these procedures shall address, at a minimum, individuals with appropriate and distinguished work history outside the Government.
Accounting for prior experiences
The Executive Steering Committee, with the assistance of the Integration Office, shall establish and execute a process for properly accounting for interagency assignments, education, and training undertaken by individuals prior to implementation of the INSPEAD System that satisfy requirements for interagency qualification.
Career guidance
Based upon the normal procedures established by the Executive Steering Committee pursuant to subsection (c), the head of each participating agency shall establish career guidelines for employees in their agency to understand and work toward achieving the various levels of interagency qualification. Such guidelines shall include guidance regarding interagency education, interagency training, interagency assignments, and such other matters as the head of the agency considers appropriate.
Senior-level interagency national security positions
Senior-Level interagency national security positions
Interagency national security positions
within the Government’s senior-level personnel systems that are identified
pursuant to section 10203 shall be designated as senior-level
interagency national security positions
and shall be subject to the
requirements of this section. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term
position within the Government’s senior-level personnel systems
refers to—
a position within the Senior Executive Service;
a position within the Senior Intelligence Service;
a position within the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service;
a position within the Senior Foreign Service; and
any other position in an agency which is classified above grade GS–15 of the General Schedule pursuant to section 5108 or in level IV or V of the Executive Schedule, or an equivalent position, which—
is not required to be filled by appointment by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and
would otherwise be considered a Senior Executive Service position under section 3132(a)(2), but for section 3132(a)(1).
Qualification requirement for filling senior-Level interagency national security positions
The highest level of interagency qualification established pursuant to section 10204(a) shall be required for an individual to serve in senior-level interagency national security positions designated pursuant to this section. The purpose of requiring this highest level of interagency qualification shall be to ensure that personnel serving in senior-level interagency national security positions have the requisite knowledge, skills, experience, and abilities to be highly proficient leaders of interagency activities related to national security matters. An individual may not be designated as interagency-qualified at this highest level until the individual successfully completes—
an appropriate program of interagency national security professional education, as prescribed by the Executive Steering Committee and offered by the Interagency National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium;
an appropriate program of interagency national security training, as prescribed by the Executive Steering Committee;
an interagency assignment, as defined pursuant to section 10206, that consists of, at a minimum, 1 interagency assignment lasting at least 24 months or 2 separate interagency assignments lasting at least 12 months each; and
such other assignments and experiences, demonstrating the individual’s knowledge, skills, and abilities in interagency national security matters, as the Executive Steering Committee may prescribe.
Waivers
The head of the agency seeking to fill a senior-level interagency national security position designated pursuant to this section may, on a case-by-case basis, request a waiver of portions of the interagency-qualification requirements established pursuant to subsection (b) if the agency head determines—
such waiver is critical for the national security of the United States; or
no individual is available who meets the interagency qualification requirements of subsection (b).
Interagency assignment defined
In general
The Executive Steering Committee shall define an
interagency assignment
for purposes of this chapter.
Limitation
The definition shall be limited to assignments in which the individual so assigned—
gains significant experience in addressing national security matters by means of interagency cooperation and coordination; or
gains significant understanding of the operations, roles, responsibilities, and cultures of 1 or more other agencies participating in the INSPEAD System.
Exclusions
The definition shall exclude—
an assignment within the agency in or under which such individual is employed, unless the assignment is a full-time assignment to an interagency organization or team, as defined by the Executive Steering Committee; and
an assignment made primarily or exclusively for training or educational purposes.
Determination of interagency assignments
Each agency shall determine, for individuals employed by such agency, which assignments satisfy the requirements of subsections (a) through (c).
The Integration Office, from time to time, shall review such number of interagency assignments, for individuals employed by a particular agency, as will enable the Integration Office to determine whether such agency is defining interagency assignments in conformance with the requirements of subsections (a) through (c).
If the Integration Office finds under paragraph (2) that 1 or more assignments, involving individuals employed by an agency, are not in conformance with the requirements of subsections (a) through (c)—
the Integration Office shall report its findings to the Executive Steering Committee; and
the Executive Steering Committee may, in accordance with such procedures as the Committee by regulation prescribes, take such action as the Committee considers necessary to ensure that—
the assignment or assignments in question are brought into conformance with the requirements of subsections (a) through (c); and
future assignments of individuals employed by such agency will be in conformance with those requirements.
Interagency National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium
In general
The Executive Steering Committee shall establish an Interagency National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium, which shall be composed of such universities, colleges, and other institutions (whether public, private, or governmental) as the Committee may determine and which agree to participate.
The mission of the Consortium shall be to educate and train national security professionals, at all career levels from the various agencies participating in the INSPEAD System, in a consistent curriculum that provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to successfully address complex and dynamic modern national security issues across agencies.
The Executive Steering Committee shall appoint a Board of Regents—
to develop and maintain guidelines for the curriculum, syllabi, and learning objectives for courses that can be taken by national security professionals to fulfill interagency qualification requirements of the System and are offered by institutions comprising the Consortium;
to oversee and validate such courses taught by institutions comprising the Consortium, to ensure they are consistent and fulfill the purpose of the System;
to recommend to the Executive Steering Committee that an institution be granted membership in the Consortium or that the membership of an institution be denied or revoked; and
to perform such other duties in managing and regulating the Consortium as the Executive Steering Committee may determine.
The Board of Regents shall be composed of experts in education and training, national security matters, public administration and policy, and such other topics as the Executive Steering Committee considers appropriate. The Executive Steering Committee shall periodically review the curriculum, syllabi, and learning objectives, and all other aspects of the Consortium program.
To foster long-term cooperation and stronger relations with allies of the United States, the Executive Steering Committee shall endeavor to create appropriate opportunities for government personnel (civilian and military) of allied foreign nations, who have duties similar to those of national security professionals, to study and train alongside national security professionals through the Consortium.
To enhance cooperation with local and State governments on national security matters, the Executive Steering Committee shall endeavor to create appropriate opportunities for employees of local and State governments to study and train alongside national security professionals through the Consortium.
The Executive Steering Committee shall study the means and appropriateness of enabling personnel from quasi-governmental organizations, Federally funded research and development corporations, nongovernmental organizations, and private corporations that support agencies on national security matters to study and train alongside national security professionals through the Consortium, and may provide such access if warranted.
Interagency national security capstone course
Upon selection, promotion, or transfer to fill a senior-level interagency national security position designated pursuant to section 10205(a), an individual shall be required, if such individual has not done so before, to attend an interagency national security education course designed specifically to prepare new senior-level national security professionals to work effectively across agencies. The individual must complete this course within 6 months after filling the position. The Board of Regents (established pursuant to subsection (a)(3)) shall oversee the curriculum, syllabi, learning objectives, and faculty for this course.
The head of an agency seeking to fill a senior-level interagency national security position may, on a case-by-case basis, request a waiver of the requirements of paragraph (1) if the agency head determines—
such waiver is critical for national security; or
such individual has extensive interagency experience as a result of previous assignments, education, or training.
Other interagency education and training opportunities for national security professionals
The head of each agency participating in the INSPEAD System shall require that such agency’s education and training programs include programs, for national security professionals at all career levels, that—
strengthen the interagency knowledge and skills of their national security professionals;
prepare their national security professionals for interagency assignments; and
offer opportunities to learn and train alongside national security professionals from other agencies.
The head of each agency shall ensure that interagency education and training opportunities under the System shall augment, and shall not replace (in whole or in part), agency-specific education and training opportunities.
Funding, personnel float, and restriction on usage of funds
General fund
There is
established a fund, to be known as the Interagency National Security
Professional Education, Administration, and Development System Fund
.
Such Fund shall be available for—
the expenses incurred, in the administration of this chapter, by—
the Executive Steering Committee;
the Integration Office; and
the Board of Regents;
such expenses incurred by the Interagency National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium to carry out this chapter as the Executive Steering Committee may determine; and
such other purposes relating to the administration of the System as the Executive Steering Committee may determine.
There are authorized to be appropriated for the Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System Fund such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes set forth in paragraph (1). Amounts appropriated pursuant to this subsection shall remain available until expended. The President shall include in each annual budget request to Congress a request for funding to the Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System Fund.
Agency funds
The President shall include in each annual budget request to Congress a statement of the amount of funding requested for operation of the INSPEAD System within each participating agency. The Integration Office, with guidance from the Office of Management and Budget, shall provide, in a transmittal to the head of each agency participating in the System, not later than July 1 of each year, guidance for determining the agency’s level of funding necessary for operation of the System within that agency. The head of each participating agency shall include the funding amount so determined for the System in the agency’s budget request for the next fiscal year scheduled for formulation under chapter 11 of title 31, and each of the 4 succeeding fiscal years.
Float
Within
the agency funding requests developed pursuant to subsection (b), the
President’s annual budget request for the INSPEAD System shall include funding
to establish and maintain a personnel float
for each agency.
This float
will enable the agencies to continue day-to-day
functions and mission operations while allowing agency national security
professionals to participate in interagency education, training, and assignment
opportunities provided by the System that require absences from their normal
duties.
Restriction
Funds authorized or stipulated under this section may not be used to conduct mission-related or day-to-day operations of an agency, or to defray (in whole or in part) the costs of agency-specific education or training.
Reporting requirements
Initial report
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this chapter, the President shall submit to Congress a written report containing an implementation plan for the INSPEAD System. This report shall, at a minimum, address—
the list of agencies participating in the System, as determined under section 10202(c);
progress and a timeline on development and issuance of policies and procedures required to implement and operate the System, including those required pursuant to section 10202(f);
progress and a timeline on implementation of the organizational structure of the System, including—
the Executive Steering Committee;
the Integration Office; and
the Interagency National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium (as described in section 10207) Board of Regents (as so described);
progress and a timeline on implementing a comprehensive program of interagency national security education, training, and assignment opportunities;
cost estimates to
support full implementation and operation of the System, including the
personnel float
required pursuant to section 10208(c);
and
such other matters as the Executive Steering Committee determines important for full transparency of the implementation of the System.
Annual reports
The Executive Steering Committee, with the assistance of the Integration Office, shall submit to Congress each year, at the time that the President’s budget request is submitted to Congress that year under section 1105(a) of title 31, a report detailing the implementation and operations of the INSPEAD System. Each such report shall include, at a minimum, details relating to—
statistics concerning the promotion and advancement of individuals who participate in the interagency assignment, education, and training opportunities provided by the System and those who do not;
expenditures from the Interagency National Security Professional Education, Administration, and Development System Fund under section 10208(a), and from agency funds under section 10208(b), during the preceding fiscal year;
the number and a brief description of the senior-level interagency national security positions in each agency participating in the System;
statistics relating to the number of employees in the participating agencies, broken down by agency and by the various levels of interagency qualification;
an overview of education and training courses offered by the Interagency National Security Professional Education and Training Consortium, and statistics on the number of employees participating in such courses;
waivers, broken down by agency, granted with respect to any of the requirements and policies established by this chapter, the President, or the Executive Steering Committee;
statistics relating to the application and review of individuals seeking interagency qualification outside the normal procedures of the System, including those with appropriate and distinguished work experience outside the Government; and
any legislation which the President or the Executive Steering Committee considers necessary to improve the System.
Implementation schedule
Rollout, pilot, and full implementation
Notwithstanding the requirements of this section, the President and Executive Steering Committee may phase-in implementation of the INSPEAD System’s policies and requirements in a manner that enables national security professionals to recognize and begin acquiring the requirements for interagency qualification and enables agencies and the governance structures of the System to implement policies and programs to support the INSPEAD System.
All of the requirements of the System, including section 10205(b), shall be fully applicable to at least 4 of the agencies identified in section 10202(c), as chosen by the President, no later than 24 months after the date of the enactment of this chapter. All of the policies, procedures, and career guidance required to operate the System under this paragraph shall be issued no later than 18 months after the date of the enactment of this chapter.
All of the requirements of the System, including section 10205(b), shall be fully applicable to all of the agencies selected for participation in the System pursuant to section 10202(c) no later than 48 months after the date of the enactment of this chapter. All of the policies, procedures, and career guidance required to operate the full System shall be issued no later than 42 months after the date of the enactment of this chapter.
Identification of interagency national security positions
Initial identification of interagency national security positions pursuant to section 10203(b) shall be completed by an agency no later than 12 months before the requirements of the INSPEAD System are fully applicable to that agency, as determined by the President.
Education and training programs
Initial interagency education and training programs shall be established and available no later than 12 months after the date of the enactment of this chapter.
Interagency assignment requirement
Any individual, employed in or under an agency, who occupies a senior-level interagency national security position on the date as of which all requirements of the System, including section 10205(b), become fully applicable with respect to such agency, shall be exempt from the requirements established in section 10205(b) and 10207(b) for the duration of their individual careers.
Inclusion of uniformed military personnel
Not later than 48 months after the date of the enactment of this chapter, the Secretary of Defense shall make the requirements of the System, including those of section 10205(b), applicable to commissioned officers.
At least 12 months before the requirements of the System are applicable to commissioned officers, the Secretary of Defense, with the advice of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Executive Steering Committee, shall issue policies and procedures for including commissioned officers in the System. These policies and procedures shall be fully integrated with professional military education, training, and joint duty assignment policies and procedures.
At least 24 months before the requirements of the System are applicable to commissioned officers, the Secretary of Defense shall identify, using the same criteria developed pursuant to section 10202(f)(2) and section 10203(a), commissioned officer positions that shall be designated interagency national security positions pursuant to section 10203. Such positions that are filled by general officers or flag officers shall be designated senior-level interagency national security positions pursuant to section 10205 and shall be subject to the requirements of such designation.
Enlisted members and warrant officers of the Armed Forces shall not be subject to the requirements of this chapter or the System, unless so designated by the Secretary of Defense.
For purposes of this subsection, the terms ‘commissioned officer’, ‘enlisted member’, ‘warrant officer’, ‘general officer’, and ‘flag officer’ have the meaning given such terms by section 101(b) of title 10.
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Clerical amendment
The analysis for part III of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
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