section 105 of title 5, United States Code) and 
the interactions among them. 
‘‘(D) A discussion of the international re-
sources available to address stabilization and 
reconstruction 
requirements, 
including 
re-
sources of the United Nations and its special-
ized agencies, nongovernmental organizations, 
private and voluntary organizations, and foreign 
governments, together with an examination of 
the successes and failures experienced by the 
United States in working with such entities. 
‘‘(E) A study of the United States inter-
agency system. 
‘‘(F) Foreign language training. 
‘‘(G) Training and simulation exercises for 
joint civilian-military emergency response oper-
ations. 
‘‘(3) EXISTING TRAINING AND EDUCATION PRO-
GRAMS.—The Secretary shall ensure that personnel 
of the Department make use of the relevant existing 
training and education programs offered within the 
Government, such as those at the Center for Sta-
bilization and Reconstruction Studies at the Naval 
Postgraduate School and the Interagency Training, 
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Education, and After Action Review Program at the 
National Defense University.’’. 
SEC. 9. SERVICE RELATED TO STABILIZATION AND RECON-
STRUCTION. 
(a) PROMOTION PURPOSES.—Service in stabilization 
and reconstruction activities overseas, membership in the 
Response Readiness Corps under section 61(c) of the 
State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (as 
added by section 7), and education and training in the 
stabilization and reconstruction curriculum established 
under section 701(g) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
(as added by section 8) should be considered among the 
favorable factors for the promotion of employees of Execu-
tive agencies. 
(b) PERSONNEL TRAINING AND PROMOTION.—The 
Secretary and the Administrator should take steps to en-
sure that, not later than three years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, at least ten percent of the employ-
ees of the Department and the United States Agency for 
International Development in the United States are mem-
bers of the Response Readiness Corps or are trained in 
the activities of, or identified for potential deployment in 
support of, the Response Readiness Corps. The Secretary 
should provide such training as needed to Ambassadors 
and Deputy Chiefs of Mission. 
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(c) OTHER INCENTIVES AND BENEFITS.—The Sec-
retary and the Administrator may establish and admin-
ister a system of awards and other incentives and benefits 
to confer appropriate recognition of and reward any indi-
vidual who is assigned, detailed, or deployed to carry out 
stabilization or reconstruction activities in accordance with 
this Act. 
SEC. 10. AUTHORITIES RELATED TO PERSONNEL. 
(a) CONTRACTING AUTHORITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, or the Ad-
ministrator with the concurrence of the Secretary, 
may enter into contracts to procure the services of 
nationals of the United States (as defined in section 
101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22)) or aliens authorized to be 
employed in the United States as personal services 
contractors for the purpose of carrying out this Act, 
without regard to civil service or classification laws, 
for service in the Office of the Coordinator for Re-
construction and Stabilization or for service in for-
eign countries to assist in stabilizing and recon-
structing a country or region that is at risk of, in, 
or is in transition from, conflict or civil strife. 
(2) NOT EMPLOYEES.—Individuals performing 
services under contracts described in paragraph (1) 
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shall not by virtue of performing such services be 
considered to be employees of the United States 
Government for purposes of any law administered by 
the Office of Personnel Management (except that 
the Secretary or Administrator may determine the 
applicability to such individuals of any law adminis-
tered by the Secretary or Administrator concerning 
the performance of such services by such individ-
uals). 
(b) EXPERTS AND CONSULTANTS.—The Secretary 
and the Administrator may, to the extent necessary to ob-
tain services without delay, employ experts and consult-
ants under section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, 
for the purpose of carrying out this Act, without requiring 
compliance with any otherwise applicable requirements for 
that employment as the Secretary or Administrator may 
determine, except that such employment shall be termi-
nated after 60 days if by that time the applicable require-
ments are not complied with. 
(c) AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT AND ASSIGN DETAILS.— 
The Secretary is authorized to accept details or assign-
ments of employees of Executive agencies, members of the 
uniformed services (as defined in section 2101 of title 5, 
United States Code), and employees of State or local gov-
ernments on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis for 
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the purpose of carrying out this Act. The assignment of 
an employee of a State or local government under this sub-
section shall be consistent with subchapter VI of chapter 
33 of title 5, United States Code. 
(d) DUAL COMPENSATION WAIVER FOR ANNUITANTS 
UNDER CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND FED-
ERAL
EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT
SYSTEM.—Notwith-
standing sections 8344(i) and 8468(f) of title 5, United 
States Code, the Secretary or the head of another Execu-
tive agency, as authorized by the Secretary, may waive the 
application of subsections (a) through (h) of section 8344 
and subsections (a) through (e) of section 8468 with re-
spect to annuitants under the Civil Service Retirement 
System or the Federal Employees’ Retirement System who 
are assigned, detailed, or deployed to assist in stabilizing 
and reconstructing a country or region that is at risk of, 
in, or is in transition from, conflict or civil strife during 
the period of their reemployment. 
(e) INCREASE
IN PREMIUM PAY CAP.—The Sec-
retary, or the head of another Executive agency as author-
ized by the Secretary, may compensate an employee de-
tailed, assigned, or deployed to assist in stabilizing and 
reconstructing a country or region that is at risk of, in, 
or is in transition from, conflict or civil strife, without re-
gard to the limitations on premium pay set forth in section 
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