Sec. 1082. Authority to provide training and support to personnel of foreign ministries of defense
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Section 1081 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 ( 10 U.S.C. 168 note), as amended by section 1047 of the Carl Levin and Howard P. Buck McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 ( Public Law 113–291 ), is further amended— by redesignating subsections
(b)through
(e)as subsections
(c)through (f), respectively; and by inserting after subsection
(a)the following new subsection (b): The Secretary of Defense may, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, carry out a program to provide training and associated training support services to personnel of foreign ministries of defense (or ministries with security force oversight) or regional organizations with security missions— for the purpose of— enhancing civilian oversight of foreign security forces; establishing responsible defense governance and internal controls in order to help build effective, transparent, and accountable defense institutions; assessing organizational weaknesses and establishing a roadmap for addressing shortfalls; and enhancing ministerial, general or joint staff, or service level core management competencies; and for such other purposes as the Secretary considers appropriate, consistent with the authority in subsection (a). Each fiscal year quarter, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on activities under the program under paragraph
(1)during the preceding fiscal year quarter. Each report shall include, for the fiscal year quarter covered by such report, the following: A list of activities under the program. A list of any organization described in paragraph
(1)to which the Secretary assigned employees under the program, including the number of such employees so assigned, the duration of each assignment, a brief description of each assigned employee’s activities, and a statement of the cost of each assignment. A comprehensive justification of any activities conducted pursuant to paragraph (1)(B). . Such section is further amended— in subsection (a), by inserting before Ministry of Defense Advisor ; Authority in subsections
(d)and (e), as redesignated by subsection (a)(1) of this section, by striking the Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Armed Services and Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and inserting the appropriate committees of Congress ; and by adding at the end the following new subsection: In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Relations of the Senate; and the Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. . The heading of such section is amended to read as follows: .
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Sec. 1082
Authority to provide training and support to personnel of foreign ministries of defense
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