§124g — Title 6 Domestic Security | U.S. Code

Summary

When giving cash awards under chapter 45 of title 5, the President or an agency head, after consulting the program manager named in section 485, may count an employee’s successful and proper sharing of information under the section 485 information-sharing environment—like homeland security, terrorism, WMD, or national intelligence as defined in section 3003(5) of title 50—so long as it follows the rules set by the President or the program manager. Heads of the departments listed in section 485(h), working with that program manager, must adopt best practices to teach and encourage federal employees to take part in the information-sharing environment, including using promotions and other nonmonetary awards and publicizing employees’ sharing achievements and the real benefits that resulted.

Title 6, §124g

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(a)In making cash awards under chapter 45 of title 5, the President or the head of an agency, in consultation with the program manager designated under section 485 of this title, may consider the success of an employee in appropriately sharing information within the scope of the information sharing environment established under that section, including homeland security information, terrorism information, and weapons of mass destruction information, or national intelligence (as defined in section 3003(5) of title 50 11 So in original. A closing parenthesis probably should precede the comma., in a manner consistent with any policies, guidelines, procedures, instructions, or standards established by the President or, as appropriate, the program manager of that environment for the implementation and management of that environment.

(b)The head of each department or agency described in section 485(h) of this title, in consultation with the program manager designated under section 485 of this title, shall adopt best practices regarding effective ways to educate and motivate officers and employees of the Federal Government to participate fully in the information sharing environment, including—

(1)promotions and other nonmonetary awards; and

(2)publicizing information sharing accomplishments by individual employees and, where appropriate, the tangible end benefits that resulted.

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Amendments

2022—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–263 substituted “section 485(h) of this title” for “section 485(i) of this title” in introductory provisions.

§124g Information sharing incentives

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Title 6, §124g

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