Sec. 119. Department of Homeland Security leadership council
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Subtitle H of title VIII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: The Secretary may establish a Department leadership council as the Secretary determines necessary to ensure coordination and improve programs and activities of the Department. A Department leadership council shall— serve as a forum for coordination and information sharing; advise the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and Associate Secretary on Department strategy, operations, and guidance; and consider and report on such other matters as the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, or Associate Secretary may direct.
The Secretary, Deputy Secretary, or Associate Secretary may delegate the authority to direct the implementation of any decision or guidance resulting from the action of a Department leadership council to any office, component, coordinator, or other senior official of the Department. In this subsection, the term joint requirement means a condition or need of more than one operating components of the Department that is required to be met or possessed by a system, product, or service to satisfy an operational mission.
The Secretary shall establish within the Department a Joint Requirements Council. In addition to other matters assigned to the Joint Requirements Council by the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, or the Associate Secretary, the Joint Requirements Council shall— develop Department-wide policies for identifying, validating, and prioritizing capability gaps and requirements that reduce duplication and increase opportunities for efficiencies in meeting mission needs of the Department; assess and validate proposed capability gaps and requirements for all acquisition programs, to ensure alignment with the Department’s strategic goals, and that requirements are well-defined, measurable, achievable, and cost-informed; implement portfolio reviews to identify common capability gaps or mission needs among components to harmonize investments and prevent unnecessary overlap and duplication among components; and assist with developing joint requirements for any common capability gaps or mission needs identified under subparagraph (C); prioritize new and existing requirements identified under subparagraphs
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(D)to make recommendations to the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, or Associate Secretary as a part of the Department’s annual budget development process; track any changes to existing requirements, including the reasons for the changes, to identify opportunities to improve the requirements generation process across the Department; and provide technical support and assistance to components, including reviewing component-level policies for identifying, validating, and prioritizing capability gaps and requirements to ensure alignment with the Department-wide policies established under subparagraph (A). The Secretary shall appoint a chairperson of the Joint Requirements Council, for a term of not more than 4 years, from among senior officials from components of the Department or other senior officials as designated by the Secretary. The Secretary shall ensure participation of relevant senior officials representing components of the Department and other senior officials as designated by the Secretary. The Secretary shall designate a full-time employee of the Department to serve as the executive secretariat of the Council. The Secretary shall ensure that the Future Years Homeland Security Program required under section 874 is consistent with any recommendations of the Joint Requirements Council required under paragraph (3)(E), as affirmed by the Secretary. Within one year of the date of enactment of this Act, and each year thereafter, the Chair of the Joint Requirements Council shall submit a report to the congressional homeland security committees (as such term is defined in section 830) summarizing the activities of the Council during the preceding fiscal year. The report shall include a list of documents validated by the Council that identifies, at a minimum, the following details: The type of document. The relevant components. The document version, if previously validated, and reason for review or revision. The dates of initial submission and final validation. . The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 890A the following new item: Sec. 890B. Department leadership council. .