President Bush has signed into law, P.L. 109-364, the
2007 DoD authorization measure which: requires DoD to
produce by March 1 a strategic plan to shape and
improve its senior management and technical workforces;
provides both civilian and military personnel full
replacement value coverage on household goods during
government-ordered relocations; allows military
personnel separating on “terminal leave” who have been
hired into federal jobs to begin accumulating leave as
federal employees; extends through fiscal 2011 an
alternative personnel program in the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency; and extends through 2007 and
increases to $212,100 a special provision allowing
waivers of total compensation limits for certain DoD
employees, primarily benefiting those working in Iraq
and Afghanistan.