7. Intelligence Community · Minor
Add promotion requirements and 'Up and Out' rules at GS-14/15 and above
Printed page 212 7. Intelligence Community
“An incoming Administration should consider studying and implementing additional requirements as a condition for promotion to GS-15/SNIS/SIS and explore concepts such as “Up and Out” beginning at the GS-14/15 levels and above for some fields.”
What has happened
- Not started
No allowlisted record of additional promotion requirements for GS-15/SNIS/SIS, or of any "Up and Out" policy at GS-14/15 and above, in the IC. Retested for ticket 04 on 2026-09-03 against OPM's complete Chief Human Capital Officers memoranda index at `opm.gov/chcoc/published-memos/`, a single unpaginated 370 KB page carrying every memorandum from the 2000s through 2026-09-02: it contains no promotion-rule or up-or-out memorandum, and the words "Intelligence Community" occur in it zero times. P.L. 119-60 Division F imposes no such requirement, and OPM's in-window personnel rulemakings — Suitability and Fitness (final 2026-06-30), Suitability Action Appeals (final 2026-08-03), Reduction in Force (final 2026-08-03) — sit in the Civil Service Reform Act framework from which IC employees are expressly excluded.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- The exclusion is on the record in the Fourth Circuit’s opinion in John Doe 1 v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence, No. 25-1527, footnote 2: the Civil Service Reform Act “does not apply here … because the employees of the Agencies are expressly excluded from coverage, 5 U.S.C. §§ 2302(a)(2)(C)(ii)(I), 7511(b)(7)-(8)”. That is why government-wide OPM rules cannot deliver this ask.
- One negative search covered the CIA internal-management asks on pp. 208-212.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- GS-15/SNIS/SIS promotion requirements and 'Up and Out' policy
- ID
- 556