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This bill aims to enhance the Department of Defense's cyber workforce recruitment and retention capabilities by expanding the existing authority to hire and compensate cybersecurity professionals. Specifically, the bill expands the types of positions eligible for special hiring and pay provisions to include roles in combatant commands, defense agencies, field activities supporting U.S. Cyber Command, and up to 500 additional hard-to-fill, highly skilled cybersecurity positions that are critical to national defense. The legislation allows the Secretary of Defense to set pay rates for these specialized cybersecurity roles at up to 150 percent of the maximum rate for Executive Schedule Level I positions, providing greater flexibility to attract top cyber talent. The bill also modifies reporting requirements, reducing the sunset period from five to three years and mandating more detailed reporting on the positions, including their titles, duties, locations, and the impact of the new pay authorities on recruitment and retention in the Cyber Excepted Service (a special hiring category for technical cybersecurity roles).

Military Affairs and Security

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/6584/all-info