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5 U.S.C. § 4503 — Agency awards
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The head of an agency may pay a cash award to, and incur necessary expense for the honorary recognition of, an employee who—
(1) by his suggestion, invention, superior accomplishment, or other personal effort contributes to the efficiency, economy, or other improvement of Government operations or achieves a significant reduction in paperwork; or
(2) performs a special act or service in the public interest in connection with or related to his official employment.
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The head of an agency may pay a cash award to, and incur necessary expense for the honorary recognition of, an employee who—
(1) by his suggestion, invention, superior accomplishment, or other personal effort contributes to the efficiency, economy, or other improvement of Government operations or achieves a significant reduction in paperwork; or
(2) performs a special act or service in the public interest in connection with or related to his official employment.
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**(a)** Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, a cash award under this subchapter may not exceed $10,000.
**(b)** When the head of an agency certifies to the Office of Personnel Management that the suggestion, invention, superior accomplishment, or other meritorious effort for which the award is proposed is highly exceptional and unusually outstanding, a cash award in excess of $10,000 but not in excess of $25,000 may be granted with the approval of the Office.
**(c)** A cash award under this subchapter is in addition to the regular pay of the recipient. Acceptance of a cash award under this subchapter constitutes an agreement that the use by the Government of an idea, method, or device for which the award is made does not form the basis of a further claim of any nature against the Government by the employee, his heirs, or assigns.
**(d)** A cash award to, and expense for the honorary recognition of, an employee may be paid from the fund or appropriation available to the activity primarily benefiting or the various activities benefiting. The head of the agency concerned determines the amount to be paid by each activity for an agency award under [section 4503 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section4503&num=0&edition=prelim). The President determines the amount to be paid by each activity for a Presidential award under [section 4504 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section4504&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(e)** The Office of Personnel Management may by regulation permit agencies to grant employees time off from duty, without loss of pay or charge to leave, as an award in recognition of superior accomplishment or other personal effort that contributes to the
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The President may pay a cash award to, and incur necessary expense for the honorary recognition of, an employee who—
(1) by his suggestion, invention, superior accomplishment, or other personal effort contributes to the efficiency, economy, or other improvement of Government operations or achieves a significant reduction in paperwork; or
(2) performs an exceptionally meritorious special act or service in the public interest in connection with or related to his official employment.
A Presidential award may be in addition to an agency award under [section 4503 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section4503&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Scope of authority with respect to Federal employees and members of Armed Forces** The Director of Central Intelligence may exercise the authority granted in [section 4503 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section4503&num=0&edition=prelim), with respect to Federal employees and members of the Armed Forces detailed or assigned to the Central Intelligence Agency or to the Intelligence Community Staff, in the same manner as such authority may be exercised with respect to the personnel of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Intelligence Community Staff.
**(b) Time for exercise of authority** The authority granted by subsection (a) of this section may be exercised with respect to Federal employees or members of the Armed Forces detailed or assigned to the Central Intelligence Agency or to the Intelligence Community Staff on or after a date five years before December 9, 1983.
**(c) Exercise of authority with respect to members of Armed Forces assigned to foreign intelligence duties** During fiscal year 1987, the Director of Central Intelligence may exercise the authority granted in [section 4503(2) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section4503/2&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to members of the Armed Forces who are assigned to foreign intelligence duties at the time of the conduct which gives rise to the exercise of such authority.
**(d) Payment and acceptance of award** An award made by the Director of Central Intelligence to an employee or member of the Armed Forces under the authority of [section 4503 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section4503&num=0&edition=prelim) or this section may be paid and accepted notwithstandi
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**(a) In general** The Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (in this section referred to as the “Director”) of the Department of Homeland Security is authorized to hold an annual cybersecurity competition to be known as the “Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition” (in this section referred to as the “competition”) for the purpose of identifying, challenging, and competitively awarding prizes, including cash prizes, to the United States Government’s best cybersecurity practitioners and teams across offensive and defensive cybersecurity disciplines.
**(b) Eligibility** To be eligible to participate in the competition, an individual shall be a Federal civilian employee or member of the uniformed services (as such term is defined in [section 2101(3) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section2101/3&num=0&edition=prelim)) and shall comply with any rules promulgated by the Director regarding the competition.
**(c) Competition administration** The Director may enter into a grant, contract, cooperative agreement, or other agreement with a private sector for-profit or nonprofit entity or State or local government agency to administer the competition.
**(d) Competition parameters** Each competition shall incorporate the following elements:
(1) Cybersecurity skills outlined in the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education Framework, or any successor framework.
(2) Individual and team events.
(3) Categories demonstrating offensive and defensive cyber operations, such as software reverse engineering and exploitation, network operations, forensics, big data analysis, cyber analysis, cyber defense, cyber exploitation,
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TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
§ 4503
In subsections (a) and (b), the words ‘‘cash award’’ are
substituted for ‘‘monetary award’’ and ‘‘such award’’ to
conform to the remainder of the chapter.
In subsection (c), the word ‘‘Government’’ is sub-
stituted for ‘‘Government of the United States or the
government of the District of Columbia’’ in view of the
definition of ‘‘Government’’ in section 4501.
Standard changes are made to conform with the defi-
nitions applicable and the style of this title as outlined
in the preface to the report.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2000—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 106–398 added subsec. (f).
1993—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 103–89 struck out par. (2)
designation and struck out par. (1) which read as fol-
lows: ‘‘Notwithstanding section 4501(2), for the purpose
of this subsection, ‘employee’ includes an employee
covered by the performance management and recogni-
tion system established under chapter 54.’’
1990—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 101–509 added subsec. (e).
1981—Subsecs. (a), (c). Pub. L. 97–35 substituted ‘‘sub-
chapter’’ for ‘‘chapter’’.
1978—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–454, § 503(b), substituted
‘‘$10,000’’ for ‘‘$5,000’’.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–454, § 503(c), substituted ‘‘Office
of Personnel Management’’ for ‘‘Civil Service Commis-
sion’’, ‘‘$10,000’’ for ‘‘$5,000’’, and ‘‘Office’’ for ‘‘Commis-
sion’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1993 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 103–89 effective Nov. 1, 1993,
see section 3(c) of Pub. L. 103–89, set out as a note under
section 3372 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1990 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 101–509 effective on such date
as the President shall determine, but not earlier than
90 days, and not later than 180 days, after Nov. 5, 199
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