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Report on use of additional authorities relating to recruitment and retention of personnel

Title VI: Veterans’ Assuring Critical Care Expansions to Support Servicemembers · Subtitle E: Veterans Infrastructure and Transformation

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The Secretary of Veterans Affairs must submit a report within 90 days explaining how they will use certain legal authorities to grow and improve the department’s acquisition workforce. The report will be sent to the Veterans’ Affairs committees in both the Senate and the House. The acquisition workforce includes employees responsible for purchasing and contracting functions.

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(a) Report required

Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report detailing how the Secretary will use the authorities of section 706 of title 38, United States Code, to increase the size and performance of the acquisition workforce of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

(b) Definitions

In this section:

(1) Acquisition workforce of the Department

The term acquisition workforce of the Department of Veterans Affairs means personnel of the Department of Veterans Affairs occupying positions within occupational series, as defined by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, responsible for acquisition functions, as determined by the Secretary.

(2) Appropriate committees of Congress

The term appropriate committees of Congress means the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives.