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 PUBLIC LAW 104-106—FEB. 10, 1996 110 STAT. 667 lished by the Office of Personnel Management for the Central Personnel Data File. "(e) APPLICABILITY TO ACQUISITION WORKFORCE.—The programs established by this section shall apply to the acquisition workforce of each executive agency. For purposes of this section, the acquisition workforce of an agency consists of all employees serving in acquisition positions listed in subsection (g)(1)(A). "(f) CAREER DEVELOPMENT.— "(1) CAREER PATHS.— The head of each executive agency shall ensure that appropriate career paths for personnel who desire to pursue careers in acquisition are identified in terms of the education, training, experience, and assignments necessary for career progression to the most senior acquisition positions. The head of each executive agency shall make information available on such career paths. "(2) CRITICAL DUTIES AND TASKS.— For each career path, the head of each executive agency shall identify the critical acquisition-related duties and tasks in which, at minimum, employees of the agency in the career path shall be competent to perform at full performance grade levels. For this purpose, the head of the executive agency shall provide appropriate coverage of the critical duties and tasks identified by the Director of the Federal Acquisition Institute. "(3) MANDATORY TRAINING AND EDUCATION.— For each career path, the head of each executive agency shall establish requirements for the completion of course work and related on-the-job training in the critical acquisition-related duties and tasks of the career path. The head of each executive agency shall also encourage employees to maintain the currency of their acquisition knowledge and generally enhance their knowledge of related acquisition management disciplines through academic programs and other self-developmental activities. "(4) PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES.—The head of each executive agency shall provide for an enhanced system of incentives for the encouragement of excellence in the acquisition workforce which rewards performance of employees that contribute to achieving the agency's performance goals. The system of incentives shall include provisions that— "(A) relate pay to performance (including the extent to which the performance of personnel in such workforce contributes to achieving the cost goals, schedule goals, and performance goals established for acquisition programs pursuant to section 313(b) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 263(b))); and "(B) provide for consideration, in personnel evaluations and promotion decisions, of the extent to which the performance of personnel in such workforce contributes to achieving such cost goals, schedule goals, and performance goals. " (g) QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS. — "(1) IN GENERAL.— (A) Subject to paragraph (2), the Administrator shall establish qualification requirements, including education requirements, for the following positions: "(i) Entry-level positions in the General Schedule Contracting series (GS-1102).

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