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 PUBLIC LAW 106-398—APPENDIX 114 STAT. 1654A-217 (e) IMPACT ON FEDERAL EMPLOYEES.— The Secretary shall mitigate any adverse impact of the implementation of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet on civilian employees of the Department of the Navy who, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, are performing functions that are included in the scope of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program by— (1) developing a comprehensive plan for the transition of such employees to the performance of other functions within the Department of the Navy; (2) taking full advantage of transition authorities available for the benefit of employees; (3) encouraging the retraining of employees who express a desire to qualify for reassignment to the performance of other functions within the Department of the Navy; and (4) including a provision in the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract that requires the contractor to provide a preference for hiring employees of the Department of the Navy who, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, are performing functions that are included in the scope of the contract. (f) NAVY-MARINE CORPS INTRANET CONTRACT DEFINED.— In this section, the term "Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract" means a contract providing for a long-term arrangement of the Department of the Navy with the commercial sector that imposes on the contractor a responsibility for, and transfers to the contractor the risk of, providing and managing the significant majority of desktop, server, infrastructure, and communication assets and services of the Department of the Navy. SEC. 815. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING INFORMATION TECH- NOLOGY SYSTEMS FOR GUARD AND RESERVE COMPO- ^' / •^C- NENTS. It is the sense of Congress— (1) that the Secretary of Defense should take appropriate steps to provide for upgrading information technology systems of the reserve components to ensure that those systems are capable, as required for mission purposes, of communicating ,. with other relevant information technology systems of the military department concerned and of the Depsirtment of Defense in general; and (2) that the Secretary of each military department should ensure that communications systems for the reserve components under the Secretary's jurisdiction receive appropriate funding for information technology systems in order to achieve the capability referred to in paragraph (1). SUBTITLE C—OTHER ACQUISITION-RELATED MATTERS SEC. 821. IMPROVEMENTS IN PROCUREMENTS OF SERVICES. (a) PREFERENCE FOR PERFORMANCE-BASED SERVICE CONTRACT- ING. —Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Federal Acquisition Regulation issued in accordance with sections 6 and 25 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 405 and 421) shall be revised to establish a pref- erence for use of contracts and task orders for the purchase of services in the following order of precedence:

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