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Code · BILL · 115th Congress · H.R. 2810 (EAS) — 115 HR 2810 EAS: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 · Sec. 901

Sec. 901. Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense

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Effective February 1, 2018, section 132a of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: There is a Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense, appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Chief Management Officer shall be appointed from among persons who have an extensive management or business background and experience with managing large or complex organizations. A person may not be appointed as Chief Management Officer within seven years after relief from active duty as a commissioned officer of a regular component of an armed force.
Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense, the Chief Management Officer shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as the Secretary may prescribe, including— serving as the chief management officer of the Department of Defense with the mission of managing the business operations of the Department; serving as the principal advisor to the Secretary on establishing policies for, and directing, all business operations of the Department, including business transformation, business planning and processes, performance management, and business information technology management and improvement activities and programs, including the allocation of resources for business operations and unifying business management efforts across the Department; exercising authority, direction, and control over the Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities providing shared business services for the Department that are designated by the Secretary for purposes of this paragraph; as of January 1, 2019— serving as the Chief Information Officer of the Department for purposes of section 2222 of this title; administering the responsibilities and duties specified in sections 11315 and 11319 of title 40, section 3506(a)(2) of title 44, and section 2223(a) of this title for business systems and management; and any responsibilities, duties, and powers relating to business systems or management that are exercisable by a chief information officer for the Department, other than those responsibilities, duties, and powers of a chief information officer that are vested in the Chief Information Warfare Officer by section 142 of this title; serving as the official with principal responsibility in the Department for providing for the availability of common, usable, Defense-wide data sets with applications such as improving acquisition outcomes and personnel management; and the authority to direct the Secretaries of the military departments and the heads of all other elements of the Department with regard to matters for which the Chief Management Officer has responsibility under this section.
The Chief Management Officer takes precedence in the Department of Defense after the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense. . Effective February 1, 2018, the table of sections at the beginning of chapter 4 of such title is amended by striking the item relating to section 132a and inserting the following new item: 132a. Chief Management Officer. . Effective on January 31, 2018, subsection
(c)of section 901 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 ( Public Law 114–328 ; 130 Stat. 2341; 10 U.S.C. 131 note) is repealed, and the amendments to be made by paragraph
(4)of that subsection shall not be made. Effective on February 1, 2018, section 132 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— by striking subsection (c); and by redesignating subsection
(d)as subsection (c). Effective on February 1, 2018, and immediately after the coming into effect of the amendments made by section 901 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017— section 131(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— by redesignating paragraphs
(2)through
(9)as paragraphs
(3)through (10), respectively; and by inserting after paragraph
(1)the following new paragraph (2): The Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense. ; section 133a(c) of such title is amended— in paragraph (1), by striking and the Deputy Secretary of Defense and inserting , the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense ; and in paragraph (2), by inserting the Chief Management Officer, after the Deputy Secretary, ; and section 133b(c) of such title is amended— in paragraph (1), by inserting the Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense, after the Deputy Secretary of Defense, ; and in paragraph (2), by inserting the Chief Management Officer, after the Deputy Secretary, . Effective on February 1, 2018, and immediately after the coming into effect of the amendment made by section 901(h) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, section 5313 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting before the item relating to the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering the following new item: Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense. . The individual serving in the position of Deputy Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense as of February 1, 2018, may continue to serve as Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense under section 132a of title 10, United States Code (as amended by subsection (a)), commencing as of that date without further appointment pursuant to such section 132a. Not later than January 15, 2018, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report specifying each Defense Agency and Department of Defense Field Activity providing shared business services for the Department of Defense that is to be designated by the Secretary for purposes of subsection (b)(3) of section 132a of title 10, United States Code (as so amended), as of the coming into effect of such section 132a. Upon the transfer of responsibility for oversight of a Defense Agency or Department of Defense Field Activity specified in subsection
(c)of section 132a of title 10, United States Code (as so amended), to the Chief Management Officer of the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a notice on the transfer, including the Defense Agency or Field Activity subject to the transfer and a description of the nature and scope of the responsibility for oversight transferred.
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