Sec. 142. Fitness standards
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Chief Security Officer of the Department of Homeland Security and in coordination with heads of the components of the Department, shall— develop a strategy and timeline for implementation and use of uniform fitness standards that correspond to the relevant position risk level as the basis for fitness determinations for a contractor employee across the Department of Homeland Security; and ensure such strategy includes a system of reciprocity across the Department.
The Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Chief Security Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, shall collect data to allow the Department and its components and contractor representatives to assess average fitness investigation, adjudication, and determination processing times for each component of the Department, including information regarding the parameters used to calculate each such average. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security, acting through the Chief Security Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, shall enter into a contract with a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) to conduct a cost benefit analysis for establishing a uniform process to provide contractor representatives access to information regarding the status of fitness determinations for Department contractor employees relevant to such contractor representatives.