(2) ensure that individuals occupying senior- 
level interagency national security positions have 
been thoroughly prepared to seek out, recognize, and 
execute interagency solutions to national security 
challenges; 
(3) provide increased consistency for educating, 
training, and developing national security profes-
sionals across the Government, while leaving indi-
vidual agencies sufficient flexibility to meet their 
specific needs and ensure that agency-specific skills, 
competencies, and capabilities remain robust; and 
(4) over time, augment agency cultures with 
interagency perspectives and enhanced interagency 
collaboration, thereby leading to better national se-
curity policy, better mission execution, and a safer, 
more secure, and more prosperous Nation. 
(c) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this Act, 
or any amendment made by this Act, shall be construed 
to affect— 
(1) the collective bargaining status or rights of 
any Federal employees or unit thereof; or 
(2) any individual’s eligibility for benefits, or 
the amount of any benefits payable to an individual, 
under a retirement system maintained by the United 
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States for officers or employees of the United States 
or for members of the uniformed services. 
SEC. 
3. 
INTERAGENCY 
NATIONAL 
SECURITY 
PROFES-
SIONAL EDUCATION, ADMINISTRATION, AND 
DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘CHAPTER 102—INTERAGENCY NATIONAL 
SECURITY 
PROFESSIONAL 
EDU-
CATION, ADMINISTRATION, AND DE-
VELOPMENT SYSTEM 
‘‘10201. Definitions. 
‘‘10202. Establishment and governance of Interagency National Security Pro-
fessional Education, Administration, and Development System. 
‘‘10203. Identification of interagency national security positions. 
‘‘10204. Interagency qualification. 
‘‘10205. Senior-level interagency national security positions. 
‘‘10206. Interagency assignment defined. 
‘‘10207. Interagency National Security Professional Education and Training 
Consortium. 
‘‘10208. Funding, personnel float, and restriction on usage of funds. 
‘‘10209. Reporting requirements. 
‘‘10210. Implementation schedule. 
‘‘§ 10201. Definitions 
‘‘For purposes of this chapter— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘Government’ means the Govern-
ment of the United States; 
‘‘(2) the term ‘national security professional’ 
means an employee of an Executive agency who 
plans, coordinates, or participates, in a substantive 
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manner, in activities relating to national security 
matters; 
‘‘(3) the term ‘national security matter’ means 
any matter that, as determined consistent with guid-
ance issued by the President, relates to threats to 
the United States, its people, property, or interests, 
including threats from— 
‘‘(A) human actions, intentional or other-
wise; 
‘‘(B) acts of nature; or 
‘‘(C) accidents; 
‘‘(4) the term ‘agency’ means an Executive 
agency; 
‘‘(5) the term ‘intelligence agency’ has the 
meaning given such term by section 504 of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947; 
‘‘(6) the term ‘intelligence community’ has the 
meaning given such term by section 3 of the Na-
tional Security Act of 1947; 
‘‘(7) the term ‘INSPEAD System’ or ‘System’ 
means the Interagency National Security Profes-
sional Education, Administration, and Development 
System, as described in section 10202; 
‘‘(8) the term ‘Executive Steering Committee’ 
means the committee described in section 10202(d); 
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‘‘(9) the term ‘Integration Office’ means the of-
fice established by or designated pursuant to section 
10202(e); 
‘‘(10) the term ‘Interagency National Security 
Professional Education and Training Consortium’ or 
‘Consortium’ means the consortium established by 
section 10207(a); and 
‘‘(11) the term ‘Interagency National Security 
Professional Education, Administration, and Devel-
opment System Fund’ means the fund established by 
section 10208(a). 
‘‘§ 10202. Establishment and governance of Inter-
agency National Security Professional 
Education, Administration, and Develop-
ment System 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The President shall estab-
lish and maintain a system for the interagency education, 
training, and professional development of national security 
professionals, which shall be known as the ‘Interagency 
National Security Professional Education, Administration, 
and Development System’. 
‘‘(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the INSPEAD Sys-
tem shall be to foster the development of exceptional na-
tional security professionals across the Government by— 
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‘‘(1) developing the interagency knowledge, 
skills, and abilities of national security professionals; 
‘‘(2) providing opportunities and incentives for 
national security professionals to undertake inter-
agency education, training, and assignments; 
‘‘(3) ensuring that individuals occupying senior- 
level national security positions have the interagency 
knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience needed to 
seek out, recognize, and execute interagency solu-
tions to national security challenges; 
‘‘(4) providing increased consistency for edu-
cating, training, and developing national security 
professionals across agencies, while ensuring suffi-
cient flexibility for individual agencies to continue to 
meet their agency-specific needs; and 
‘‘(5) augmenting agency cultures with inter-
agency perspective and vision, encouraging the ex-
change of ideas and information between agencies, 
and building trust and familiarity between personnel 
in different agencies. 
‘‘(c) PARTICIPATION.—The following agencies shall 
participate in the INSPEAD System: 
‘‘(1) The Department of State. 
‘‘(2) The Department of Defense. 
‘‘(3) The Department of Justice. 
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‘‘(4) The Department of the Treasury. 
‘‘(5) The Department of Energy. 
‘‘(6) The Department of Homeland Security. 
‘‘(7) The Office of the Director of National In-
telligence and all other intelligence agencies within 
the intelligence community. 
‘‘(8) The Department of Commerce. 
‘‘(9) The Department of Transportation. 
‘‘(10) The Department of Agriculture. 
‘‘(11) The Department of Health and Human 
Services. 
‘‘(12) The United States Agency for Inter-
national Development. 
‘‘(13) Such other agencies as the President may 
designate. 
‘‘(d) EXECUTIVE STEERING COMMITTEE.— 
‘‘(1) There is established a committee which 
shall be known as the ‘Executive Steering Com-
mittee’ and the members of which shall consist of— 
‘‘(A) the head of each agency (or designee 
thereof, not lower than the rank of assistant 
Secretary or its equivalent) participating in the 
System, as identified in subsection (c); 
‘‘(B) the Director of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management (or designee thereof); 
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‘‘(C) the president of the United States In-
stitute of Peace (or designee thereof); and 
‘‘(D) the Assistant to the President for 
National Security Affairs (or designee thereof) 
or, as designated by the President, such Assist-
ant’s successor in function (or designee there-
of). 
‘‘(2) The Director of National Intelligence (or 
designee thereof) shall represent the entire intel-
ligence community on the Executive Steering Com-
mittee, except as provided in paragraph (3)(B). 
‘‘(3) The President may, if, in the judgment of 
the President, national security or the operation of 
the INSPEAD System would be enhanced thereby, 
require that any of the following also serve as mem-
bers of the Executive Steering Committee: 
‘‘(A) The head of any agency not otherwise 
participating in the System. 
‘‘(B) The head of any intelligence agency 
within the intelligence community, other than 
the Director of National Intelligence. 
‘‘(4) The member under paragraph (1)(D) shall 
serve as the chair of the Executive Steering Com-
mittee. 
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‘‘(2) The agencies participating in the System 
shall, in a manner consistent with otherwise applica-
ble provisions of law, provide assistance, support, 
and access to information to the Integration Office 
for the performance of its duties. 
‘‘(f) POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.—The Executive 
Steering Committee shall establish policies and procedures 
for governing, implementing, and executing the INSPEAD 
System, including policies and procedures relating to— 
‘‘(1) the interagency knowledge, skills, experi-
ence, abilities, and qualifications desired or required 
of national security professionals at all career levels 
across all agencies participating in the System, par-
ticularly individuals holding interagency national se-
curity positions; 
‘‘(2) criteria for the identification of inter-
agency national security positions at all career levels 
within all agencies participating in the System; 
‘‘(3) guidance on the management of national 
security professionals and positions across the Gov-
ernment, such that interagency assignments are 
available, encouraged, and incentivized; 
‘‘(4) the development, management, and coordi-
nation of interagency educational opportunities for 
national security professionals; 
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‘‘(5) the development, management, and coordi-
nation of interagency training opportunities for na-
tional security professionals; 
‘‘(6) overseeing and monitoring the careers of 
employees who undertake interagency assignments, 
education, and training opportunities offered by the 
System; 
‘‘(7) ensuring that employees who undertake 
interagency assignments, education, and training op-
portunities are promoted and rewarded at rates not 
less than those of individuals who do not; 
‘‘(8) incentivizing employees to participate in 
the System and pursue interagency qualification, 
which may include consideration for accelerated pro-
motion, one-time compensation bonuses, and a Gen-
eral Schedule step increase (or the equivalent) upon 
completion of an interagency qualification level; 
‘‘(9) the management of the Interagency Na-
tional Security Professional Education, Administra-
tion, and Development System Fund; and 
‘‘(10) the operation and functions of the Inte-
gration Office. 
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‘‘§ 10203. Identification of interagency national secu-
rity positions 
‘‘(a) CRITERIA.—In order to carry out this section, 
the Executive Steering Committee shall establish the cri-
teria to be used in determining which positions within an 
agency are interagency national security positions. Such 
criteria shall include, for each career level (as identified 
under this subsection based on position duties and respon-
sibilities)— 
‘‘(1) a position’s involvement or participation in 
the planning, coordination, or execution of activities 
relating to national security matters; 
‘‘(2) a position’s required or desired level of 
interaction and engagement with other agencies; and 
‘‘(3) such other criteria as the Executive Steer-
ing Committee considers appropriate. 
‘‘(b) INITIAL IDENTIFICATION
AND SUBSEQUENT 
REVIEW.—Each agency participating in the INSPEAD 
System, as identified under section 10202(c), shall iden-
tify and thereafter periodically review, with the assistance 
of the Integration Office and the Office of Personnel Man-
agement, all positions within such agency that meet the 
criteria for inclusion in the System as ‘interagency na-
tional security positions’ and designate those positions ac-
cordingly. 
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‘‘(c) PROCEDURES FOR NEW POSITIONS.—The Exec-
utive Steering Committee shall establish and publish poli-
cies and procedures for determining whether newly created 
positions meet the criteria developed pursuant to this sec-
tion and must be designated interagency national security 
positions before being filled. 
‘‘(d) 
EXEMPTION
FOR
PRESIDENTIAL
AP-
POINTEES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—This chapter and the Sys-
tem do not apply to any position to which an indi-
vidual is appointed by the President or to the indi-
vidual holding any such position. 
‘‘(2) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 
Congress that, in the selection and appointment of 
any individual for a position that (but for paragraph 
(1)) would otherwise meet the criteria for an inter-
agency national security position, due consideration 
should be given to such individual’s interagency ex-
perience and qualifications. 
‘‘(e) RECRUITMENT.—Job announcements for inter-
agency national security positions shall solicit applications 
from the widest population allowable by law. 
‘‘§ 10204. Interagency qualification 
‘‘(a) INTERAGENCY QUALIFICATION LEVELS.—The 
Executive Steering Committee shall establish various lev-
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els of interagency qualification for national security pro-
fessionals, as well as the requirements for employees to 
achieve qualification at each level. Each level shall, at a 
minimum, have— 
‘‘(1) interagency education requirements; 
‘‘(2) interagency training requirements; and 
‘‘(3) interagency experience or assignment re-
quirements. 
The purpose of establishing such qualification levels shall 
be to ensure systematic, progressive, career-long develop-
ment of national security professionals in the knowledge, 
skills, experience, and abilities that enable them to be 
highly effective participants in interagency activities re-
lated to national security matters. 
‘‘(b) QUALIFICATION LEVELS REQUIRED
OR DE-
SIRED FOR FILLING INTERAGENCY NATIONAL SECURITY 
POSITIONS.—Using guidance established by the Executive 
Steering Committee, and with assistance from the Integra-
tion Office, the agencies participating in the INSPEAD 
System shall identify, for each interagency national secu-
rity position identified pursuant to section 10203, the 
interagency qualification level required or desired of em-
ployees filling such positions. 
‘‘(c) NORMAL PROCEDURES.—The Executive Steer-
ing Committee, with the assistance of the Integration Of-
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fice, shall establish and publish normal procedures for in-
dividuals to achieve the requirements for various levels of 
interagency qualification. These procedures shall describe 
what interagency education, training, and assignment op-
portunities enable an employee to meet the requirements 
for interagency qualification at various levels. 
‘‘(d) REVIEW PROCEDURES.—The Executive Steer-
ing Committee, with the assistance of the Integration Of-
fice, shall establish and publish procedures for individuals 
to apply for a review of work assignments, education, 
training, and other appropriate experiences that are un-
dertaken outside of the normal procedures of the 
INSPEAD System and for which the individual desires 
to receive interagency qualification credit. To encourage 
the participating agencies to continue to seek exceptional 
talent from all sources, these procedures shall address, at 
a minimum, individuals with appropriate and distin-
guished work history outside the Government. 
‘‘(e) ACCOUNTING FOR PRIOR EXPERIENCES.—The 
Executive Steering Committee, with the assistance of the 
Integration Office, shall establish and execute a process 
for properly accounting for interagency assignments, edu-
cation, and training undertaken by individuals prior to im-
plementation of the INSPEAD System that satisfy re-
quirements for interagency qualification. 
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‘‘(f) CAREER GUIDANCE.—Based upon the normal 
procedures established by the Executive Steering Com-
mittee pursuant to subsection (c), the head of each partici-
pating agency shall establish career guidelines for employ-
ees in their agency to understand and work toward achiev-
ing the various levels of interagency qualification. Such 
guidelines shall include guidance regarding interagency 
education, interagency training, interagency assignments, 
and such other matters as the head of the agency con-
siders appropriate. 
‘‘§ 10205. Senior-level interagency national security 
positions 
‘‘(a) SENIOR-LEVEL INTERAGENCY NATIONAL SECU-
RITY POSITIONS.—Interagency national security positions 
within the Government’s senior-level personnel systems 
that are identified pursuant to section 10203 shall be des-
ignated as ‘senior-level interagency national security posi-
tions’ and shall be subject to the requirements of this sec-
tion. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term ‘po-
sition within the Government’s senior-level personnel sys-
tems’ refers to— 
‘‘(1) a position within the Senior Executive 
Service; 
‘‘(2) a position within the Senior Intelligence 
Service; 
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‘‘(3) a position within the Defense Intelligence 
Senior Executive Service; 
‘‘(4) a position within the Senior Foreign Serv-
ice; and 
‘‘(5) any other position in an agency which is 
classified above grade GS–15 of the General Sched-
ule pursuant to section 5108 or in level IV or V of 
the Executive Schedule, or an equivalent position, 
which— 
‘‘(A) is not required to be filled by appoint-
ment by the President, by and with the advice 
and consent of the Senate; and 
‘‘(B) would otherwise be considered a Sen-
ior Executive Service position under section 
3132(a)(2), but for section 3132(a)(1). 
‘‘(b) QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENT FOR FILLING 
SENIOR-LEVEL INTERAGENCY NATIONAL SECURITY PO-
SITIONS.—The highest level of interagency qualification 
established pursuant to section 10204(a) shall be required 
for an individual to serve in senior-level interagency na-
tional security positions designated pursuant to this sec-
tion. The purpose of requiring this highest level of inter-
agency qualification shall be to ensure that personnel serv-
ing in senior-level interagency national security positions 
have the requisite knowledge, skills, experience, and abili-
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ties to be highly proficient leaders of interagency activities 
related to national security matters. An individual may not 
be designated as interagency-qualified at this highest level 
until the individual successfully completes— 
‘‘(1) an appropriate program of interagency na-
tional security professional education, as prescribed 
by the Executive Steering Committee and offered by 
the Interagency National Security Professional Edu-
cation and Training Consortium; 
‘‘(2) an appropriate program of interagency na-
tional security training, as prescribed by the Execu-
tive Steering Committee; 
‘‘(3) an interagency assignment, as defined pur-
suant to section 10206, that consists of, at a min-
imum, 1 interagency assignment lasting at least 24 
months or 2 separate interagency assignments last-
ing at least 12 months each; and 
‘‘(4) such other assignments and experiences, 
demonstrating the individual’s knowledge, skills, and 
abilities in interagency national security matters, as 
the Executive Steering Committee may prescribe. 
‘‘(c) WAIVERS.—The head of the agency seeking to 
fill a senior-level interagency national security position 
designated pursuant to this section may, on a case-by-case 
basis, request a waiver of portions of the interagency-qual-
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ification requirements established pursuant to subsection 
(b) if the agency head determines— 
‘‘(1) such waiver is critical for the national se-
curity of the United States; or 
‘‘(2) no individual is available who meets the 
interagency qualification requirements of subsection 
(b). 
For each waiver requested under this subsection, the agen-
cy head shall submit a statement of justification to the 
Integration Office, including details relating to the posi-
tion and the candidate desired to fill the position. Waivers 
must be approved by the Executive Steering Committee 
before the desired candidate may be appointed to fill the 
position on a permanent basis. 
‘‘§ 10206. Interagency assignment defined 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Executive Steering Com-
mittee shall define an ‘interagency assignment’ for pur-
poses of this chapter. 
‘‘(b) LIMITATION.—The definition shall be limited to 
assignments in which the individual so assigned— 
‘‘(1) gains significant experience in addressing 
national security matters by means of interagency 
cooperation and coordination; or 
‘‘(2) gains significant understanding of the op-
erations, roles, responsibilities, and cultures of 1 or 
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more other agencies participating in the INSPEAD 
System. 
‘‘(c) EXCLUSIONS.—The definition shall exclude— 
‘‘(1) an assignment within the agency in or 
under which such individual is employed, unless the 
assignment is a full-time assignment to an inter-
agency organization or team, as defined by the Exec-
utive Steering Committee; and 
‘‘(2) an assignment made primarily or exclu-
sively for training or educational purposes. 
‘‘(d) DETERMINATION
OF INTERAGENCY ASSIGN-
MENTS.— 
‘‘(1) Each agency shall determine, for individ-
uals employed by such agency, which assignments 
satisfy the requirements of subsections (a) through 
(c). 
‘‘(2) The Integration Office, from time to time, 
shall review such number of interagency assign-
ments, for individuals employed by a particular 
agency, as will enable the Integration Office to de-
termine whether such agency is defining interagency 
assignments in conformance with the requirements 
of subsections (a) through (c). 
‘‘(3) If the Integration Office finds under para-
graph (2) that 1 or more assignments, involving in-
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dividuals employed by an agency, are not in con-
formance with the requirements of subsections (a) 
through (c)— 
‘‘(A) the Integration Office shall report its 
findings to the Executive Steering Committee; 
and 
‘‘(B) the Executive Steering Committee 
may, in accordance with such procedures as the 
Committee by regulation prescribes, take such 
action as the Committee considers necessary to 
ensure that— 
‘‘(i) the assignment or assignments in 
question are brought into conformance 
with the requirements of subsections (a) 
through (c); and 
‘‘(ii) future assignments of individuals 
employed by such agency will be in con-
formance with those requirements. 
‘‘§ 10207. Interagency National Security Professional 
Education and Training Consortium 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(1) The Executive Steering Committee shall 
establish an Interagency National Security Profes-
sional Education and Training Consortium, which 
shall be composed of such universities, colleges, and 
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