2015-05185. 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, 2014, to December 31, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Senior Executive Resources Services, Senior Executive Services and Performance Management, Employee Services, [phone].

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 an annual notice of the consolidated listing of all Schedule A, B, and C appointing authorities, current as of June 30, in the Federal Register.

Schedule A

06. Department of Defense (Schedule A, 213.3106)

(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 3,000 positions that require unique cybersecurity 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, 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), 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 cybersecurity 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, 2015.

Schedule B

No Schedule B authorities to report during December 2014.

Schedule C

The following Schedule C appointing authorities were approved during December 2014.

Agency name	Organization name	Position title	Authorization no.	Effective date
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE	Office of Civil Rights	Special Assistant	DA150022	12/1/2014
	Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs	Confidential Assistant	DA150023	12/12/2014
	Rural Business Service	Deputy Administrator, Rural Business Cooperative Service	DA150025	12/12/2014
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE	International Trade Administration	Deputy Director, Office of Advisory Committees, Industry and Analysis	DC150024	12/5/2014
	Office of the Deputy Secretary	Special Assistant	DC150026	12/9/2014
	Office of Business Liaison	Special Advisor	DC150027	12/9/2014
	Office of the Chief of Staff	Director of Scheduling	DC150031	12/12/2014
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE	Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs)	Research Assistant Speechwriter	DD150012 DD150030	12/5/2014 12/8/2014
	Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs)	Special Assistant for International Security Affairs	DD150037	12/10/2014
	Office of the General Counsel	Special Counsel (2)	DD150033 DD150032	12/4/2014 12/11/2014
	Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense (Legislative Affairs)	Special Assistant	DD150034	12/16/2014
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE	Office of the Under Secretary	Special Assistant	DF150011	12/5/2014
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY	Office of the Secretary	Deputy Chief of Staff (2)	DN150008 DN150009	12/5/2014 12/5/2014
		Special Assistant	DN150004	12/12/2014
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION	Office of Communications and Outreach	Confidential Assistant	DB150026	12/11/2014
	Office of the Secretary	Confidential Assistant	DB150028	12/11/2014
	Office of the General Counsel	Chief of Staff	DB150031	12/12/2014
	Office of the Under Secretary	Deputy Director	DB150027	12/11/2014
		Confidential Assistant	DB150036	12/19/2014
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY	Office of Nuclear Energy	Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor	DE150013	12/2/2014
	Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy	Special Advisor for Technology	DE150017	12/12/2014
FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION	Office of the Chairman	Program Analyst	DR150004	12/17/2014
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION	Public Buildings Service	Special Assistant	GS150008	12/11/2014
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES	Office of Intergovernmental and External Affairs	Special Assistant	DH150044	12/12/2014
	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Legislation	Special Assistant for Oversight	DH150048	12/12/2014
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs	External Engagement Coordinator	DM150035	12/3/2014
	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy	Policy Advisor	DM150040	12/5/2014
	Immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary	Special Assistant	DM150041	12/5/2014
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT	Office of the Secretary	Senior Policy Advisor	DU150009	12/1/2014
	Office of Public and Indian Housing	Chief of Staff/Senior Advisor	DU150008	12/16/2014
	Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations	Congressional Relations Specialist	DU150016	12/29/2014
	Office of Public Affairs	Director of Speechwriting	DU150019	12/29/2014
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR	United States Fish and Wildlife Service	Chief of Staff—To the Assistant Secretary for Fish Wildlife and Parks	DI150016	12/3/2014
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR	Office of the Secretary	Special Assistant	DL150015	12/2/2014
		Director of Public Engagement	DL150017	12/5/2014
	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy	Senior Policy Advisor	DL150018	12/11/2014
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS	National Endowment for the Arts	White House Liaison/Advisor	NA150002	12/5/2014
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES	National Endowment for the Humanities	Director of Congressional Affairs	NH150002	12/12/2014
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET	Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs	Confidential Assistant	BO150007	12/11/2014
DEPARTMENT OF STATE	Bureau of Public Affairs	Staff Assistant	DS150009	12/10/2014
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY	Office of Financial Markets	Senior Advisor	DY150014	12/3/2014

The following Schedule C appointing authorities were revoked during December 2014.

Agency name	Organization name	Position title	Authorization No.	Vacate date
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE	Office of White House Liaison	Special Assistant	DC140087	12/14/2014
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY	Federal Emergency Management Agency	Special Assistant	DM140127	12/5/2014
	Immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary	Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary	DM140108	12/13/2014
	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy	Policy Advisor	DM140227	12/13/2014
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT	Office of Public and Indian Housing Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations	Special Assistant General Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations	DU090110 DU130050	12/27/2014 12/27/2014
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY	Office of the Under Secretary of the Navy	Special Assistant	DN120047	12/13/2014
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION	Office of General Counsel	Special Assistant	NN120002	12/13/2014

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

U.S. Office of Personnel Management.

Katherine Archuleta,

Director.