Required Training The following outlines mandatory training for Federal employees. Each agency also has the authority to mandate additional training for its employees. Computer Security The importance of computer security to the agency, an employees' role and responsibility in computer security, and basic agency computer security policies and procedures is a part of the periodic computer security training required by the Computer Security Act of 1987, Pub. L. No. 100-235 Stat. 431 (1988). 5 C.F.R. §930.301 - 305 (1997) requires the head of each agency to provide initial, continuing, and refresher training at the awareness level, policy level, implementation level, and performance level training for executives, program and functional managers, information resources managers, security and audit personnel, automated data processing management, operations, and programming staff, and end users. Ethics 5 C.F.R. §2638.703(b) (1997) requires that each new agency employee be provided, within 90 days of the date of his or her entrance on duty, the ethics materials specified in 5 C.F.R. §2638.703(a) (1997). Agencies must also provide new employees with a minimum of one hour of duty time to either review these materials or receive ethics training. Executives, Managers, and Supervisors 5 C.F.R. §412 (1997) requires agencies to systematically develop executives, managers, supervisors, and candidates for these positions. Agency programs must provide for: initial training for incumbents based on the results of needs assessments; continuing learning experiences, so that the individual may achieve the mastery level of proficiency for his or her current management level and position; and systematic development of candidates for higher management levels, including any U.S. Office of Personnel Management approved formal Senior Executive Service candidate development programs.