Sec. 1085. Department of Defense Center for Excellence in Civilian Harm Mitigation
316 words·~1 min read·
/bill/117/hr/7900/pcs/section-1085A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
Chapter 7 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 183a the following new section: The Secretary of Defense shall operate a Center for Excellence in Civilian Harm Mitigation. The purpose of the center shall be to institutionalize and advance knowledge, practices, and tools for preventing, mitigating, and responding to civilian harm. The Center shall be used to— develop more standardized civilian-harm operational reporting and data management processes to improve data collection, sharing, and learning to enable the Department of Defense to better learn from disparate investigations and events; develop, recommend, and review guidance, and the implementation of guidance, on how the Department responds to civilian harm; develop recommended guidance for addressing civilian harm across the full spectrum of armed conflict and for use in doctrine and operational plans; develop and recommend training and exercises for the prevention and investigation of civilian harm; develop a repository of civilian casualty and civilian harm information; and perform such other functions as the Secretary of Defense may specify.
The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees, and make publicly available on an appropriate website of the Department, an annual report on the activities of the Center. . The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 183a the following new item: 184. Center for Excellence in Civilian Harm Mitigation. . The Center for Excellence in Civilian Harm Mitigation, as required under section 184 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall be established by not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the establishment of such Center for Excellence in Civilian Harm Mitigation.