Sec. 3121. National Nuclear Security Administration Personnel System

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Subtitle C of the National Nuclear Security Administration Act ( 50 U.S.C. 2441 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Administrator may adapt the pay banding and performance-based pay adjustment demonstration project carried out by the Administration under the authority provided by section 4703 of title 5, United States Code, into a permanent alternative personnel system for the Administration (to be known as the National Nuclear Security Administration Personnel System ) and implement that system with respect to employees of the Administration. In adapting the demonstration project described in subsection

(a)into a permanent alternative personnel system, the Administrator— may, subject to paragraph (2), revise the requirements and limitations of the demonstration project to the extent necessary; and shall— ensure that the permanent alternative personnel system is carried out in a manner consistent with the final plan for the demonstration project published in the Federal Register on December 21, 2007 (72 Fed. Reg. 72776); ensure that significant changes in the system not take effect until revisions to the plan for the demonstration project are approved by the Office of Personnel Management and published in the Federal Register; ensure that procedural modifications or clarifications to the final plan for the demonstration project be made through local notification processes; authorize, and establish incentives for, employees of the Administration to have rotational assignments among different programs of the Administration, the headquarters and field offices of the Administration, and the management and operating contractors of the Administration; and establish requirements for employees of the Administration who are in the permanent alternative personnel system described in subsection

(a)to be promoted to senior-level positions in the Administration, including requirements with respect to— professional training and continuing education; and a certain number and types of rotational assignments under subparagraph (D), as determined by the Administrator. The Director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program established pursuant to section 4101 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act ( 50 U.S.C. 2511 ) and section 3216 of this Act may, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Navy, apply the alternative personnel system under subsection

(a)to— all employees of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program in the competitive service (as defined in section 2102 of title 5, United States Code); and all employees of the Department of Navy who are assigned to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and are in the excepted service (as defined in section 2103 of title 5, United States Code) (other than such employees in statutory excepted service systems). . Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator for Nuclear Security shall provide a briefing to the appropriate congressional committees on the implementation of section 3248 of the National Nuclear Security Administration Act, as added by subsection (a). In this subsection, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional defense committees; the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives. Section 3116 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 ( Public Law 115–91 ; 131 Stat. 1888; 50 U.S.C. 2441 note prec) is amended— by striking subsections

(a)and (d); and by redesignating subsections

(b)and

(c)as subsections

(a)and (b), respectively. The table of contents for the National Nuclear Security Administration Act is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 3247 the following new item: Sec. 3248. Alternative personnel system. .

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