Summary

Requires the Federal Protective Service (FPS) Director to strengthen oversight of contract security personnel by improving covert testing, accountability, training, and the personnel-tracking system; the Director must start work within one year, report on results and plans to Congress, and provide annual follow-ups. Also directs a review and remediation or replacement plan for the system that tracks contract security staff, with required reports on decisions, implementation, and tenant communication, and it clarifies that contractor employees who protect federal property remain contractors and are not converted into federal employees.

• Directs the FPS Director to improve oversight, covert testing, accountability, and training for contract security personnel.
• Requires a review and remediation or replacement plan for the personnel-tracking system that manages contract security staff.
• FPS must begin mandated improvements within one year of enactment and must report to Congress after implementation and annually thereafter.
• Mandates specific reports to Congress about the tracking system review, implementation decisions, tenant communications, and recommendations.
• Clarifies that contractor employees protecting federal property remain contractors and are not converted into federal employees.
• Focuses on operational improvements (testing, training, tracking) rather than creating new hiring authorities or pay changes.
• Applies to contractor security personnel working under FPS oversight at federal facilities.
• Does not itself appropriate funding or change federal employment law beyond the interpretive clarification.