INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1988

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2013
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INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1988
CONFERENCE REPORT
TITLE VII - STUDY OF INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL SYSTEMS
SECTION 701
Section 701 of the conference report requires the Director of Central
Intelligence to contract with the National Academy of Public Administration to
perform an objective classified study of personnel management and compensation
systems affecting civilian personnel of the United States intelligence
community.
Section 601 of the House bill would have created a Commission of
Intelligence Personnel Systems to review personnel recruitment, retention,
management, and compensation programs of the US intelligence community. The
commission would have been made up of three members, one appointed by the
President, another by the Speaker of the House, and a third by the Majority
leader of the Senate. The House felt the commission was necessary to provide
a comprehensive review of current programs; assess the need for comprehensive
review of current programs; assess the need for changes, especially those
required by the unique circumstances of intelligence activities; and to
present recommendations to the Congress for necessary changes after
considering the potential inequities the proposed changes would create either
among intelligence agencies or between the Intelligence Community and the
Federal Civil Service. The Senate amendment had no comparable provision.
The conference agreement provides for the conduct of the study that would
have been required by the House bill except that under the conference
agreement, the study shall be conducted by the National Academy of Public
Administration (NAPA), an independent Federally chartered institution with
significant expertise in government management issues and an excellent
reputation for objective, thorough study. The study will assess the ability
of intelligence community activities to perform their current and future
missions with existing or proposed personnel and compensation systems.
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The conference agreement directs the Director of Central Intelligence to
contract with NAPA to conduct the study of intelligence personnel systems, but
it is the expectation of the conferees that the Director will consult with the
intelligence committees in his negotiations to select a NAPA team to conduct
the study and in the development of essential parameters of that study. The
language of the conference agreement also provides that the Director of
Central Intelligence, the Director of the Intelligence Community Staff, and
all elements of the intelligence community must provide necessary support,
including personnel, to the NAPA panel as well as access to all information
relating to intelligence personnel and management issues. The conferees
further urge the Director of Central Intelligence to ensure that members and
staff of the NAPA panel are given every measure of cooperation and that
security investigations and review necessary to provide clearances for them
are given priority attention.
The NAPA study panel should be tasked with producing interim analytical
reports before the required completion of the final report by
January 20, 1988. The conferees believe that such interim reports, which
should be provided on May 1 and August 1, 1988, could be useful to the
intelligence committees and to the intelligence community. The conferees urge
the Director to ensure that such interim reports particularly address an
analysis of existing or proposed changes to personnel management and
compensation systems aimed at recruiting or retaining individuals with skills
critical to the various missions of the agencies and entities of the
intelligence community. Among the skills of critical importance to a number
of such intelligence entities are mathematics, computer science, engineering,
and foreign languages.
The conferees are aware that some intelligence agencies may seek to
institute changes in their personnel management and compensation programs
during the period in which NAPA is conducting the intelligence personnel
study. The conferees do not wish to discourage personnel management and
compensation improvement implemented within the framework of current
programs. However, the purpose of the study is to provide a baseline for a
comprehensive review by the intelligence committees of all personnel needs of
the intelligence agencies presented in a coherent and coordinated fashion. The
conferees believe that significant, non-urgent changes in personnel management
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or compensation programs should be reviewed very carefully before they are
implemented.
The conferees consider the authorized programs for fiscal year 1988 to
include only those personnel management and compensation programs in effect at
the time the budget was submitted and justified. Significant changes to those
programs would be of special Congressional interest and would require
submission to the intelligence committees for consideration under established
reprogramming or transfer procedures. By "significant," the conferees mean
departures from current personnel management or compensation structures.
While the conferees do not intend to discourage needed change, they emphasize
that any contemplated significant program change should be submitted well in
advance of the date anticipated for implementation. Unless submitted as part
of the annual fiscal year 1989 budget request, such proposals should be
submitted at least 30 days prior to proposed implementation.
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