STUDY ON UTILITY OF EXPANDED PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY.

SEC. 804. STUDY ON UTILITY OF EXPANDED PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY. (a) In General. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security and the Director of National Intelligence shall jointly submit to the appropriate congressional committees a study on the utility of providing elements of the intelligence community of the Department of Defense, other than the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, personnel management authority to attract experts in science and engineering under section 4092 of title 10, United States Code. (b) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— (1) the congressional intelligence committees; and (2) the congressional defense committees.