2013-03144. Excepted Service

AGENCY:

U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

ACTION:

Notice.

SUMMARY:

This notice identifies Schedule A, B, and C appointing authorities applicable to a single agency that were established or revoked from December 1, 2012, to December 31, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Senior Executive Resources Services, Senior Executive Resources and Performance Management, Employee Services, 202-606-2246.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

In accordance with 5 CFR 213.103, Schedule A, B, and C appointing authorities available for use by all agencies are codified in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Schedule A, B, and C appointing authorities applicable to a single agency are not codified in the CFR, but the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) publishes a notice of agency-specific authorities established or revoked each month in the Federal Register at www.gpo.gov/​fdsys/​. OPM also publishes annually a consolidated listing of all Schedule A, B, and C appointing authorities current as of June 30 as a notice in the Federal Register.

Schedule A

The following Schedule A authority was approved in December.

Section 213.3106 Department of Defense

(b) Entire Department (including the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force)—

(11) Not to exceed 3000 positions that require unique cyber security skills and knowledge to perform cyber risk and strategic analysis, incident handling and malware/vulnerability analysis, program management, distributed control systems security, cyber incident response, cyber exercise facilitation and management, cyber vulnerability detection and assessment, network and systems engineering, enterprise architecture, intelligence analysis, investigation, investigative analysis and cyber-related infrastructure inter-dependency analysis. This authority may be used to make permanent, time-limited and temporary appointments in the following occupational series: Security (GS-0080), intelligence analysts (GS-0132), computer engineers (GS-0854), electronic engineers (GS-0855), computer scientists (GS-1550), operations research (GS-1515), criminal investigators (GS-1811), telecommunications (GS-0391), and IT specialists (GS-2210). Within the scope of this authority, the U.S. Cyber Command is also authorized to hire miscellaneous administrative and program (GS-0301) series when those positions require unique cyber security skills and knowledge. All positions will be at the General Schedule (GS) grade levels 09-15 or equivalent. No new appointments may be made under this authority after December 31, 2013.

Schedule B

No Schedule B authorities were approved in December 2012.

Schedule C

The following Schedule C appointing authorities were approved during December 2012.

Agency name	Organization name	Position title	Authorization No.	Effective date
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE	Assistant Secretary and Director General for United States and Foreign Commercial Service	Special Assistant	DC130015	12/13/2012
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE	Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Reserve Affairs)	Special Assistant (Reserve Affairs)	DD130022	12/12/2012
	Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Asian and Pacific Security Affairs)	Special Assistant	DD130023	12/12/2012
	Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)	Special Assistant for International Security Affairs	DD130027	12/18/2012
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY	U.S. Customs and Border Protection	Special Advisor	DM130024	12/12/2012
DEPARTMENT OF STATE	Office of the Chief of Protocol	Public Affairs Specialist	DS130020	12/3/2012
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION	Secretary	Special Assistant for Scheduling and Advance	DT130008	12/10/2012

The following Schedule C appointing authorities were revoked during December 2012.

Agency	Organization	Position title	Authorization No.	Vacate date
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE	Office of the Under Secretary	Deputy Chief of Staff For USPTO	DC110109	12/7/12
	Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs	Legislative Assistant	DC120015	12/15/12
	Office of Public Affairs	Confidential Assistant	DC120082	12/29/12
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION	Office for Civil Rights	Special Assistant	DB100012	12/1/12
	Office of Elementary and Secondary Education	Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Early Learning	DB120060	12/7/12
	Office of the Secretary	Special Assistant	DB090169	12/31/12
	Office of the Under Secretary	Director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans	DB120027	12/31/12
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY	Office of the Under Secretary	Senior Advisor	DE110034	12/3/12
	Office of Public Affairs	Press Secretary	DE120022	12/3/12
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy	Executive Assistant	DM120066	12/31/12
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE	Civil Rights Division	Counsel	DJ110103	12/1/12
	Office of the Deputy Attorney General	Counsel	DJ110025	12/2/12
	Antitrust Division	Counsel	DJ100105	12/3/12
DEPARTMENT OF STATE	Office of the Chief of Protocol	Protocol Officer (Visits)	DS110100	12/14/12
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION	Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs	Associate Director for Governmental Affairs	DT110046	12/14/12
	Secretary	Advance Specialist	DT120027	12/15/12
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY	Office of the Administrator	Policy Analyst	EP110022	12/1/12
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE	Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict and Interdependent Capabilities)	Special Assistant	DD090172	12/1/12

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 3301 and 3302; E.O. 10577, 3 CFR, 1954-1958 Comp., p. 218.

John Berry,

Director, U.S. Office of Personnel Management.