Personnel

(a) Personnel (1) Appointment generally The Director may fix the number of, and appoint and direct, all employees of the Digital Privacy Agency, in accordance with the applicable provisions of title 5, United States Code. The Director may appoint personnel without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, so long as the Director sets requirements, conducts recruitment, and determines appointments in a fair, transparent, and equitable manner. (2) Employees of the agency The Director is authorized to employ privacy experts, technologists, computer scientists, user experience designers and researchers, data scientists, ethicists, attorneys, investigators, economists, civil rights experts, and other employees as the Director considers necessary to conduct the business of the Digital Privacy Agency. Unless otherwise provided expressly by law, any individual appointed under this section shall be an employee, as defined in section 2105 of title 5, United States Code, and subject to the provisions of such title and other laws generally applicable to the employees of an executive agency. (3) Employee compensation The Director may fix and adjust the pay and benefits of personnel as the Director considers desirable, competitive, transparent, and equitable, without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, United States Code, relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, respectively. (4) Labor-management relations Chapter 71 of title 5, United States Code, shall apply to the Digital Privacy Agency and the employees of the Digital Privacy Agency. (b) Additional roles (1) Chief information officer (A) Designation of an agency CIO Subchapter II of chapter 113 of subtitle III of title 40, United States Code, is amended— (i) in section 11315(c) by adding and of the Digital Privacy Agency before the em dash immediately preceding paragraph (1); and (ii) in section 11319(a)(1) by adding and the Digital Privacy Agency before the period. (B) Responsibility The Chief Information Officer of the Digital Privacy Agency, as designated by subparagraph (A), shall ensure the Digital Privacy Agency uses technology efficiency to implement, administer, and enforce this Act and the rules and orders issued pursuant to this Act. (2) Inspector general Section 401 of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting the Digital Privacy Agency, after the Export-Import Bank of the United States,; and (B) in paragraph (3), by inserting the Director of the Digital Privacy Agency; after the President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States;. (3) Ombud The Director shall appoint an ombud who shall— (A) act as a liaison between the Digital Privacy Agency and any affected person with respect to any problem that such person may have in dealing with the Digital Privacy Agency that results from the regulatory activities of the Digital Privacy Agency; and (B) ensure that safeguards exist to encourage complainants to come forward and preserve confidentiality. (c) Authority To accept Federal detailees The Director may accept officers or employees of the United States or members of the Armed Forces on a detail from an element of the Federal Government on a nonreimbursable basis, as jointly agreed to by the heads of the receiving and detailing elements, for a period not to exceed 3 years.