1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Resilient Employment and Authorization Determination to Increase the National Employment of Serving Spouses Act or the READINESS Act . 2. Flexibilities for Federal employees who are Armed Forces or Foreign Service spouses (a) Definitions In this section: (1) Agency The term agency — (A) means each agency, office, or other establishment in the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Federal Government; and (B) includes— (i) each nonappropriated fund instrumentality of the United States, including each instrumentality described in section 2105(c) of title 5, United States Code; and (ii) the United States Postal Service. (2) Armed forces The term Armed Forces has the meaning given the term armed forces in section 2101 of title 5, United States Code. (3) Covered individual The term covered individual means an individual who— (A) is the spouse of a member of the Armed Forces or the Foreign Service; (B) is an employee; and (C) relocates because the spouse of the individual, as described in subparagraph (A), is subject to a permanent change of station. (4) Director The term Director means the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. (5) Employee The term employee means an employee of an agency. (6) Permanent change of station The term permanent change of station means, with respect to a member of the Armed Forces or the Foreign Service— (A) a permanent change of duty station