Sec. 1203. Enhanced authority for provision of support to foreign military liaison officers of foreign countries while assigned to the Department of Defense
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(a)of section 1051a of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking involved in a military operation and all that follows and inserting while such liaison officer is assigned temporarily to the headquarters of a combatant command, component command, or subordinate operational command of the United States. . Such section, as so amended, is further amended— by redesignating subsection
(d)as subsection (f); and by inserting after subsection
(c)the following new subsection (d): The number of liaison officers supported under subsection (b)(1) may not exceed 60 at any one time, and the amount of unreimbursed support for any such liaison officer under that subsection in any fiscal year may not exceed $200,000 (in fiscal year 2014 constant dollars). . Such section, as so amended, is further amended by inserting after subsection (d), as added by subsection (b)(2) of this section, the following new subsection (e): The authority of the Secretary of Defense to provide administrative services and support under subsection
(a)for the performance of duties by a liaison officer of another nation may be exercised only with respect to a liaison officer of another nation whose assignment as described in that subsection is accepted by the Secretary of Defense with the concurrence of the Secretary of State. . Subsection
(f)of such section, as redesignated by subsection (d)(1) of this section, is further amended by inserting training programs conducted to familiarize, orient, or certify liaison officers regarding unique aspects of the assignments of the liaison officers, after police protection, . Not later January 31, 2016, January 31, 2017, and January 31, 2018, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report that includes a summary of the expenses, by command and associated countries, incurred by the United States for those liaison officers of a developing country in connection with the assignment of that officer as described in subsection
(a)of section 1051(a) of title 10, United States Code, as amended by subsection
(a)of this section. The report required by paragraph
(1)shall also include the definition of and criteria established to designate a country as a developing country for purposes of such paragraph. The report required by paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in an unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.