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6 U.S.C. § 590 — Hiring authority
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In hiring personnel for the Office, the Secretary shall have the hiring and management authorities provided in section 1101 11 See References in Text note below. of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 ([5 U.S.C. 3104](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3104&num=0&edition=prelim) note). The term of appointments for employees under subsection (c)(1) of such section may not exceed 5 years before granting any extension under subsection (c)(2) of such section.
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In hiring personnel for the Office, the Secretary shall have the hiring and management authorities provided in section 1101 11 See References in Text note below. of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 ([5 U.S.C. 3104](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3104&num=0&edition=prelim) note). The term of appointments for employees under subsection (c)(1) of such section may not exceed 5 years before granting any extension under subsection (c)(2) of such section.
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**(a)** The Director of the Office of Personnel Management may establish, and from time to time revise, the maximum number of scientific or professional positions for carrying out research and development functions which require the services of specially qualified personnel which may be established outside of the General Schedule. Any such position may be established by action of the Director or, under such standards and procedures as the Office prescribes and publishes in such form as the Director may determine (including procedures under which the prior approval of the Director may be required), by agency action.
**(b)** The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to any Senior Executive Service position (as defined in [section 3132(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3132/a&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(c)** In addition to the number of positions authorized by subsection (a) of this section, the Librarian of Congress may establish, without regard to the second sentence of subsection (a) of this section, not more than 8 scientific or professional positions to carry out the research and development functions of the Library of Congress which require the services of specially qualified personnel.
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**(a) Programs Authorized.—**
(1) **Laboratories of the military departments.—** — The Secretary of Defense may carry out a program of personnel management authority provided in subsection (b) in order to facilitate recruitment of eminent experts in science or engineering for such laboratories of the military departments as the Secretary shall designate for purposes of the program for research and development projects of such laboratories.
(2) **DARPA.—** — The Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may carry out a program of personnel management authority provided in subsection (b) in order to facilitate recruitment of eminent experts in science or engineering for research and development projects and to enhance the administration and management of the Agency.
(3) **DOTE.—** — The Director of the Office of Operational Test and Evaluation may carry out a program of personnel management authority provided in subsection (b) in order to facilitate recruitment of eminent experts in science or engineering to support operational test and evaluation missions of the Office.
(4) **Strategic capabilities office.—** — The Director of the Strategic Capabilities Office may carry out a program of personnel management authority provided in subsection (b) in order to facilitate recruitment of eminent experts in science or engineering for the Office.
(5) **DIU.—** — The Director of the Defense Innovation Unit may carry out a program of personnel management authority provided in subsection (b) in order to facilitate recruitment of eminent experts in science or engineering for the Unit.
(6) **Joint artificial intelligence.—** — The official designated under section 238(b) of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115
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**(a) Establishment** There is established in the Department a Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office.
**(b) Assistant Secretary** The Office shall be headed by an Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office, who shall be appointed by the President.
**(c) Responsibilities** The Assistant Secretary shall serve as the Secretary’s principal advisor on—
(1) weapons of mass destruction matters and strategies; and
(2) coordinating the efforts of the Department to counter weapons of mass destruction.
**(d) Details** The Secretary may request that the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the heads of other Federal agencies, including elements of the intelligence community, provide for the reimbursable detail of personnel with relevant expertise to the Office.
**(e) Termination** The Office shall terminate on the date that is 5 years after December 21, 2018.
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TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
§ 3104
1978—Pub. L. 95–454, § 302(b)(2), substituted ‘‘reading
assistants for blind employees and interpreting assist-
ants for deaf employees’’ for ‘‘readers for blind employ-
ees’’ in section catchline.
Subsec. (a)(4), (5). Pub. L. 95–454, § 302(a)(1), added par.
(4) and redesignated former par. (4) as (5).
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–454, § 302(a)(2), inserted provi-
sions respecting applicability to employment and com-
pensation for interpreting assistant or assistants for
deaf employees.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 95–454, § 302(a)(3), inserted ‘‘or
deaf’’ after ‘‘blind’’.
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 95–454, § 302(a)(4), added subsec.
(d).
1968—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 90–623 substituted ‘‘Com-
missioner’’ for ‘‘Board of Commissioners’’.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1980 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 96–523, § 3, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3040, provided
that: ‘‘The amendments made by this Act [amending
this section, section 7 of the Federal Advisory Com-
mittee Act, formerly set out in the Appendix to this
title, section 604 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Pro-
cedure, and section 410 of Title 39, Postal Service] shall
take effect sixty days after the date of the enactment
of this Act [Dec. 12, 1980].’’
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1979 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 96–54 effective July 12, 1979,
see section 2(b) of Pub. L. 96–54, set out as a note under
section 305 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1978 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 95–454 effective 90 days after
Oct. 13, 1978, see section 907 of Pub. L. 95–454, set out as
a note under section 1101 of this title.
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1968 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 90–623 intended to restate
without substantive change the law in effect on Oc
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TITLE 6—DOMESTIC SECURITY
§ 590
Communications (referred to in this section as the ‘Di-
rector’)’’.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 115–278, § 2(g)(6)(D)(ii), substituted
‘‘Emergency Communications Division’’ for ‘‘Office of
Emergency Communications’’ in introductory provi-
sions.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CHANGE OF NAME
Reference to the Assistant Director for Emergency
Communications deemed to be a reference to the Exec-
utive Assistant Director for Emergency Communica-
tions, see section 571(g) of this title, enacted Jan. 1,
2021.
SUBCHAPTER XIV—COUNTERING WEAPONS
OF MASS DESTRUCTION OFFICE
Editorial Notes
CODIFICATION
Pub. L. 115–387, § 2(a)(1), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat. 5162,
substituted ‘‘COUNTERING WEAPONS OF MASS DE-
STRUCTION OFFICE’’ for ‘‘DOMESTIC NUCLEAR DE-
TECTION OFFICE’’ in subchapter heading.
This subchapter is comprised of title XIX, formerly
title XVIII, of Pub. L. 107–296, as added by Pub. L.
109–347, title V, § 501(a), Oct. 13, 2006, 120 Stat. 1932, and
renumbered title XIX by Pub. L. 110–53, title I,
§ 104(a)(1), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 294.
§ 590. Definitions
In this subchapter:
(1) Assistant Secretary
The term ‘‘Assistant Secretary’’ means the
Assistant Secretary for the Countering Weap-
ons of Mass Destruction Office.
(2) Intelligence community
The term ‘‘intelligence community’’ has the
meaning given such term in section 3003(4) of
title 50.
(3) Office
The term ‘‘Office’’ means the Countering
Weapons of Mass Destruction Office estab-
lished under section 591(a) of this title.
(4) Weapon of mass destruction
The term ‘‘weapon of mass destruction’’ has
the meaning given the term in section 1801 of
title 50.
(Pub. L. 107–296, title XIX, § 1900, as added Pub.
L. 115–387, § 2(a)(2), Dec. 21, 2018, 132 Stat
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