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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · H.R. 6395 (Engrossed in House) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 244

Sec. 244. Pilot program on the use of electronic portfolios to evaluate applicants for certain technical positions

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Beginning not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall carry out a pilot program under which applicants for technical positions within the Department of Defense will be evaluated, in part, based on electronic portfolios of the applicant’s work, as described in subsection (b). Under the pilot program, the human resources manager of an organization of the Department of Defense participating in the program, in consultation with relevant subject matter experts, shall assess each applicant for a technical position in the organization by reviewing an electronic portfolio of the applicant’s best work, as selected by the applicant.
The Secretary of Defense shall carry out the pilot program under subsection
(a)in at least one major command of each military department. Not later than 2 years after the commencement of the pilot program under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the results of the program. At a minimum, the report shall describe— how the use of electronic portfolios in the hiring process affected the timeliness of the hiring process for technical positions in organizations of the Department of Defense participating in the program; and the level of satisfaction of organization leaders, hiring authorities, and subject matter experts with the quality of applicants that were hired based on evaluations of electronic portfolios. In this section, the term technical position means a position in the Department of Defense requiring expertise in artificial intelligence, data science, or software development. The authority to carry out the pilot program under subsection
(a)shall terminate 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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