January 2021. Other hiring authorities Several excepted service hiring authorities are not classified into the OPM schedules. Some of the more prevalent include: Title 38 appointments are for the Department of Veterans Affairs to hire certain medical occupations. The National Institutes of Health also uses Title 38 appointments for health care occupations that provide direct patient care services or services incident to it. There is an excepted service hiring authority for National Guard technicians, used for the Army Reserve Technician Program and Air Reserve Technician Program. There is a special Veterans Recruitment Appointment authority. There are also agency-wide excepted service authorities, of which the largest are the Transportation Security Administration and Federal Aviation Administration. A Title 42 appointment allows scientists and special consultants to be hired as part of the Public Health Service or Environmental Protection Agency under a streamlined process. The Senior Biomedical Research Service, formally the Silvio O. Conte Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product Assessment Service, is for scientific and technical experts in biomedical research, clinical research evaluation, and biomedical product assessment. It was created by the Federal Employees Pay Comparability Act of 1990 and implemented in 1995, because the National Institutes of Health concluded that the Senior Executive Service was not ideally suited for their purposes, and a personnel system more similar to academia was needed. Initially there was a cap of 500 individuals in the Service, but the 21st Century Cures Act increased this to 2000 individuals in 2016. Principal excepted agencies The following are selected excepted service agencies: Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Corporation for National and Community Service Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Federal Reserve Board Library of Congress National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) National Security Agency (NSA) Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Peace Corps Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) United States Agency for International Development (USAID) United States Capitol Police (USCP) United States Congress - Personal Office Staff Transportation Security Administration (TSA) United States Postal Service (USPS) United States Secret Service (USSS) United States Election Assistance Commission U.S. Supreme Court, Personnel Office United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Department of Defense Cyber Excepted Service (CES) References Civil service in the United States