Sec. 584. Study on gender integration in defense operation planning and execution
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Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall conduct a study concerning the integration of gender into the planning and execution of foreign operations of the Armed Forces at all levels. In conducting the study under subsection (a), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall— identify those elements of defense doctrine, if any, that should be revised to address attention to women and gender; evaluate the need for a gender advisor training program, including the length of training, proposed curriculum, and location of training; determine how to best equip military leadership to integrate attention to women and gender across all lines of effort; determine the extent to which personnel qualified to advise on women and gender are available within the Department of Defense, including development of a billet description for gender advisors; and evaluate where to assign gender advisors within operational commands from the strategic to tactical levels, with particular attention paid to assigning advisors to combatant commanders and service chiefs.
Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing the results of the study conducted under subsection (a). The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.