Sec. 1120. Assessments of staffing in DOD Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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The Secretary of Defense shall conduct an assessment validating each civil service position in the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion against existing personnel of the Office. For purposes of carrying out such assessment, the head of the Office shall submit to the Secretary the alignment of total force manpower resources of the Office against core missions, tasks, and functions, including a mapping of missions to the originating statute or Department policy. The head of the Office shall conduct an assessment on the tasks, functions, and associated civilian personnel the Office believes are necessary to perform the duties of the Office.
The Secretary shall determine whether there is any conflict between the assessment conducted under paragraph
(1)and the assessment under paragraph (2), and what personnel actions (if any) the Secretary will take to eliminate such conflict. Not later than April 1, 2024, the Secretary of Defense shall provide to the congressional defense committees an interim briefing on the assessments under subsection (a). Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the assessments under subsection (a). Such report shall include the following: A validation of every civil service position in the Office against existing civilian personnel requirements. The methodology and process through which such validation was performed. Relevant statistical analysis on civil service position fill rates against validated requirements. Analysis of each civil service position and grade and whether the position description and grade match the function and task requirements of the position. Plan to update grades and position descriptions to meet current and future requirements, tasks, and functions. Lessons learned through the civilian position validation process and statistical analysis under subparagraphs
(B)through (F). Any legislative, policy or budgetary recommendations of the Secretary related to the subject matter of the report. The Secretary of Defense shall, in the Secretary’s annual budget submission to the Office of Management and Budget for fiscal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter, identify mission changes, opportunities for automation, and business process improvements that could better optimize the size, structure, composition of the Department of Defense’s workforce and its allocation against validated requirements. In this section— the term civil service has the meaning given that term in section 2101 of title 5, United States Code; and the term Office means the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Department of Defense.