Extends whistleblower protection from reprisal to employees and organizations working under Defense, NASA, and other federal contracts, including state, local, and tribal government contractors, and bars contracts and arbitration agreements from waiving those rights.

• Covers contractors, subcontractors, grantees, and their employees at the Department of Defense, NASA, and other federal agencies, including state, local, tribal, and territorial governments that hold such contracts.
• Protects employees who refuse an order requiring them to break a contract-related law or rule, or who disclose gross mismanagement, gross waste, abuse of authority, legal violations, or a substantial and specific danger to public health or safety.
• Bars executive branch officials from asking a contractor to carry out a prohibited reprisal and allows disciplinary action to be proposed against officials who do so.
• Makes these rights and remedies nonwaivable, including through predispute arbitration agreements.

• Armed Services Committee (House)
• Oversight and Government Reform Committee (House)

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