Sec. 874. Congressional oversight of private security contractor contracts and personnel
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Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretaries of the military departments (as defined in section 101 of title 10, United States Code), shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the efforts and plans of the Department of Defense to implement the recommendations contained in the report of the Government Accountability Office titled PRIVATE SECURITY CONTRACTORS: DOD Needs to Better Identify and Monitor Personnel and Contracts (GAO–21–255), dated July 29, 2021. The report required by subsection
(a)shall, to the maximum extent possible, be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex. The report required by subsection
(a)shall contain— a summary of the actions planned or taken by Department of Defense to implement the three recommendations in the report of the Government Accountability Office described in such subsection; a schedule for completing the implementation of each such recommendation, including specific milestones; a comprehensive list of— the specific contracted activities and services designated by the Department private security functions; and the private security contracts of the Department in effect at any time during fiscal year 2021; an explanation of how the Department plans to ensure that information pertaining to private security contracts and personnel can be uniquely identified in the databases of the Department used to record information on contracts and contractor personnel; and a summary of the data possessed by the Department on all private security contracts in effect as of the end of fiscal year 2021, including— the number of such contracts; the number of contractors for such contracts; the number of private security personnel performing private security functions under such contracts, including the number of such personnel who are armed and the number who are unarmed; and for all such private security personnel, job titles and primary duty stations under such contracts, including whether such individual is deployed inside or outside of the continental United States. In this section: The term private security contract means a covered contract (as defined under section 159.3 of title 32, Code of Federal Regulations) under which private security functions are performed. The term private security functions has the meaning given such term under section 159.3 of title 32, Code of Federal Regulations. The term private security personnel has the meaning given the term PSC personnel under section 159.3 of title 32, Code of Federal Regulations.