Sec. 1107. Defense Science Initiative for Personnel
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It is the policy of the United States to assure the scientific and technological preeminence of its defense laboratories, which are essential to the national security, by requiring the Department of Defense to provide to its science and technology laboratories— the personnel and support services needed to carry out their mission; and decentralized management authority. There is hereby established within the Department of Defense a program to be known as the Defense Science Initiative for Personnel (hereinafter in this section referred to as the Initiative ).
The laboratories covered by the Initiative— shall be those designated as Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories (hereinafter in this section referred to as STRLs ) by the Secretary or by paragraph (2); and shall include the laboratories enumerated in section 1105 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 ( 10 U.S.C. 2358 note), which laboratories are hereby designated as STRLs. The director of any STRL may appoint qualified candidates, without regard to sections 3309-3319 of title 5, United States Code, directly to scientific, technical, engineering, mathematical, or medical positions within such STRL, on either a temporary, term, or permanent basis.
Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 51 of title 5, United States Code, for purposes of this subsection, the term qualified candidate means an individual who is— a candidate who has earned a bachelor’s or master’s degree; a student enrolled in a program of undergraduate or graduate instruction leading to a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a scientific, technical, engineering, mathematical, or medical course of study at an institution of higher education (as that term is defined in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001 )); or a veteran, as defined in section 2108 of title 5, United States Code, who served in the armed forces in an engineering, scientific, or medical technician occupational specialty.
Any exercise of authority under paragraph
(1)shall be considered to satisfy section 2301(b)(1) of title 5, United States Code. The director of any STRL shall manage the workforce strength of such STRL— without regard to any limitation on appointments or any allocation of positions with respect to such STRL, subject to paragraph (2); and in a manner consistent with the budget available with respect to such STRL. Section 3131 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— in paragraph (5), by striking mission; and inserting mission, subject to paragraph (15); ; in paragraph (13), by striking and at the end; in paragraph (14), by striking the period and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: permit the director of each Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory (as described in section 1107(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014) to determine the duration of appointments for senior executives (which shall in no event be less than 5 years), consistent with carrying out the mission of that laboratory. . There is hereby established in each STRL a category of senior professional scientific positions, the incumbents of which shall be designated as senior scientific technical managers and which shall be positions classified above GS-15 of the General Schedule pursuant to section 5108 of title 5, United States Code. The primary functions of such positions shall be— to engage in research and development in the physical, biological, medical, or engineering sciences, or another field closely related to the mission of such STRL; and to carry out technical supervisory responsibilities. The positions described in paragraph
(1)may be filled, and shall be managed, by the director of the STRL involved, under criteria established pursuant to section 342(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 ( Public Law 103–337 ; 108 Stat. 2721), relating to personnel demonstration projects at laboratories of the Department of Defense, except that the director of the laboratory involved shall determine the number of such positions at such laboratory, not to exceed 3 percent of the number of scientists and engineers (determined on a full-time equivalent basis) employed at such laboratory at the end of the fiscal year prior to the fiscal year in which any appointments subject to that numerical limitation are made. Section 3104 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: In addition to the number of positions authorized by subsection (a), the director of each Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory (as described in section 1107(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014), may establish, without regard to the second sentence of subsection (a), such number of scientific or professional positions as may be necessary to carry out the research and development functions of the laboratory and which require the services of specially-qualified personnel. The selection process governing appointments made under this subsection shall be determined by the director of the laboratory involved, and the rate of basic pay for the employee holding any such position shall be set by the laboratory director at a rate not to exceed the rate for level II of the Executive Schedule. .
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Sec. 1107
Defense Science Initiative for Personnel
Pub. L.Pub. L. 103-337
Stat.108 Stat. 2721
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