Sec. 502. Report on recruitment, retention, and promotion of Foreign Service economic officers
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees regarding the recruitment, retention, and promotion of economic officers in the Foreign Service. The report required under subsection
(b)shall include— an overview of the key challenges the Department faces in— recruiting individuals to serve as economic officers in the Foreign Service; and retaining individuals serving as economic officers in the Foreign Service, particularly at the level of GS–14 of the General Schedule and higher; an overview of the key challenges in recruiting and retaining qualified individuals to serve in economic positions in the Civil Service; a comparison of promotion rates for economic officers in the Foreign Service relative to other officers in the Foreign Service; the identification, disaggregated by region, of hard-to-fill posts and proposed incentives to improve staffing of economic officers in the Foreign Service at such posts; and a summary and analysis of the factors that lead to the promotion of— economic officers in the Foreign Service; and individuals serving in economic positions in the Civil Service.