Cyber Talent Development and Recruitment Act

Key Points

• This bill helps the Department of Defense hire more experts to protect the country from digital attacks. It expands a special hiring program to include more roles within the U.S. Cyber Command and other defense agencies.
• The government would be allowed to create 500 new high-level positions for cyber planning and operations. These jobs are for experts who are usually hard to find because they are in high demand by private tech companies.
• To compete with private companies, the bill allows the Secretary of Defense to offer much higher salaries. Some of these experts could earn up to 150 percent of the standard top-level government pay rate.
• The Department of Defense must track how these new pay rules help with hiring. Every three years, they will have to report to Congress on how many people they hired, what their jobs are, and if the higher pay is actually working to keep people in government service.

Impact Analysis

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