; and (C) the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Committee on Oversight and Accountability of the House of Representatives. 6309. Implementation of GAO High Risk List recommendations (a) In general The Secretary shall implement the Government Accountability Office’s High Risk List recommendations as applicable to the Department for the following activities: (1) Improving the management of IT acquisitions and operations. (2) Improving strategic human capital management. (3) Managing Federal real property. (4) Ensuring the cybersecurity of the nation. (5) Managing government-wide personnel security clearance process. (b) Report Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this division, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the Department’s progress in implementing all of the Government Accountability Office’s High Risk List recommendations as applicable to the Department described in subsection (a). (c) High Risk List defined In this section, the term High Risk List refers to GAO–23–106203, the April 20, 2023, report by the Government Accountability Office titled, High-Risk Series: Efforts Made to Achieve Progress Need to Be Maintained and Expanded to Fully Address All Areas . LXIV Organization and operations 6401. Personal services contractors (a) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the Department should seek to ensure it has sufficient full-time equivalent positions allotted to carry out its current mission, working with the Office of Personnel Management and appropriate congressional committees to that end, and that the use of personal services contractors should not be relied upon to perform core Department functions indefinitely. (b) Exigent circumstances and crisis response To assist the Department in addressing and responding to exigent circumstances and urgent crises abroad, the Department is authorized to employ, domestically and abroad, a limited number of personal services contractors in order to meet exigent needs,