(b) EMPLOYMENT AUTHORITY.—The full-time per-
sonnel authorized to be employed in the Response Readi-
ness Corps under section 62(c)(1)(B)(i) of the State De-
partment Basic Authorities Act of 1956 (as added by sub-
section (a)) shall be in addition to any other full-time per-
sonnel of the Department or the United States Agency for 
International Development authorized to be employed 
under any other provision of law. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit 
to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 
the status of efforts to establish the Response Readiness 
Corps under this section. The report shall include rec-
ommendations for any legislation necessary to implement 
subsection (c) of section 62 of the State Department Basic 
Authorities Act of 1956, as added by subsection (a). 
SEC. 8. STABILIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION TRAINING 
AND EDUCATION. 
Section 701 of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 
U.S.C. 4021) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-
section (h); and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (f) the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
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‘‘(g) STABILIZATION
AND RECONSTRUCTION CUR-
RICULUM.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT AND MISSION.—The Sec-
retary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Defense 
and the Secretaries of the Army and Navy, is au-
thorized to establish a stabilization and reconstruc-
tion curriculum for use in programs of the Foreign 
Service Institute, the Center for Stabilization and 
Reconstruction Studies at the Naval Postgraduate 
School, the National Defense University, and the 
United States Army War College. 
‘‘(2) CURRICULUM CONTENT.—The curriculum 
referred to in paragraph (1) should include the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(A) An overview of the global security en-
vironment, 
including 
an 
assessment 
of 
transnational threats and an analysis of United 
States policy options to address such threats. 
‘‘(B) A review of lessons learned from pre-
vious United States and international experi-
ences in stabilization and reconstruction activi-
ties. 
‘‘(C) An overview of the relevant respon-
sibilities, capabilities, and limitations of various 
Executive agencies (as that term is defined in 
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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 and cultural aware-
ness training. 
‘‘(G) Training and simulation exercises for 
joint civilian-military emergency response oper-
ations. 
‘‘(H) Security awareness training. 
‘‘(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 
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Postgraduate School and the Interagency Training, 
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 62(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) shall be considered among the fa-
vorable factors for the promotion of employees of Execu-
tive agencies. 
(b) PERSONNEL TRAINING AND PROMOTION.—The 
Secretary and the Administrator shall take steps to ensure 
that, not later than three years after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, at least ten percent of the employees 
of the Department and of 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 
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