§1111 Acquisition Workforce Authorities

Summary

The Commandant of the Coast Guard can label certain acquisition jobs as “shortage” positions and use the special hiring rules in section 3304 of title 5 to recruit and hire highly qualified people directly into those jobs. The Commandant must report information about those designated jobs in the reports required under section 1102. If a retiree who gets a pension from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund is hired into one of those designated acquisition jobs, their pension will keep being paid and they are not treated as an employee under certain retirement coverage rules (subchapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 5). A retiree who retired under section 8336(d)(1) or 8414(b)(1)(A) of title 5 and is rehired after the date of the enactment of the Elijah E. Cummings Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2020 may choose instead to be covered by section 8344 or 8468 of title 5. That choice must be filed within 90 days after the Commandant reasonably notifies the person, and if filed, coverage starts the first day of the first pay period on or after the filing. If they do not file in time, the default pension-continuation rule applies.