§ 2472.
The civilian employees of the Department of Defense, including the civilian employees of the military departments and the Defense Agencies, who perform, or are involved in the performance of, depot-level maintenance and repair workloads may not be managed on the basis of any constraint or limitation in terms of man years, end strength, full-time equivalent positions, or maximum number of employees. Such employees shall be managed solely on the basis of the available workload and the funds made available for such depot-level maintenance and repair.
(Added and amended [Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title III, § 312(a)], (b), Feb. 10, 1996, [110 Stat. 250]; [Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title III, § 360], Nov. 18, 1997, [111 Stat. 1700]; [Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title X, § 1067(1)], Oct. 5, 1999, [113 Stat. 774]; [Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title III, § 322(a)], (b)(1), Oct. 28, 2004, [118 Stat. 1846].)