§665a Intelligence and Cybersecurity Diversity Fellowship Program

Summary

The Secretary must run an intelligence and cybersecurity diversity fellowship program. Students in the program get a paid internship in intelligence or cybersecurity, help with tuition, and, after they graduate and finish the program, a job offer for an intelligence or cybersecurity position in the excepted service. If someone accepts the job offer, the Secretary must hire them directly and skip most normal federal hiring rules, except for section 3328 of title 5. To join, a person must be a U.S. citizen, have at least a 3.2 GPA, be a socially disadvantaged individual (as defined in 13 C.F.R. 124.103), and be a sophomore, junior, or senior. The Secretary must send a report to the appropriate Congressional committees not later than 1 year after December 27, 2020, and every year after. Each report must describe outreach and recruiting, list how many students participated by school and whether their work was mainly intelligence or cybersecurity, and say how many accepted job offers and which part of the Department they joined. Defined terms: appropriate committees of Congress (names four Senate and House committees), excepted service (see 5 U.S.C. 2103), historically Black college or university (see 20 U.S.C. 1061), institution of higher education (see 20 U.S.C. 1001), minority-serving institution (see 20 U.S.C. 1067q(a)).