Lets the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security hire up to 25 outside experts for the Bureau of Industry and Security, setting their pay and bypassing certain federal civil service hiring and pay rules.

• Allows the Under Secretary to identify gaps in expertise each year and appoint outside experts to fill them, without following certain civil service hiring rules.
• Sets pay at up to the senior executive rate plus locality adjustments, and caps each appointee's total annual compensation at the Vice President's salary.
• Limits each appointment to 5 years, allows one extension of up to a year for national security or foreign policy reasons, and caps the number of appointees at 25.
• Requires reports to Congress within 180 days of enactment and annually after that, and ends the authority 5 years after enactment.

• Oversight and Government Reform Committee (House)
• Foreign Affairs Committee (House)

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