Sec. 906. Management innovation activities
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The Secretary of Defense shall establish a set of activities to improve the effectiveness of management activities within the Department of Defense, with the goals of incorporating appropriate private sector management practices and technologies and enhancing the capabilities of the defense management workforce. The activities established under subsection
(a)may include the following: Public-private partnerships with appropriate private sector and government organizations. Personnel exchange programs with appropriate industry, academic, and government organizations to enhance the capabilities of the defense management workforce. Research, development, and technology and business process prototyping activities to create new technological capabilities to support management missions, or development and testing of new management concepts and business transformation activities. A designated activity or agency to lead management innovation activities. A process by which defense business process owners and other personnel of the Department of Defense can identify management and business process challenges and opportunities that could be addressed by activities established under this section. Processes to develop, prototype, test, and field new business processes and practices to improve defense management capabilities. Academic research and educational activities related to defense management missions to promote— development of innovative management concepts; analyses and addressing of current management challenges; and development of programs and activities to develop a future defense management workforce. Such other activities as the Secretary considers appropriate. Not later than February 1, 2023, the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees a plan for activities established under this section. Not later than July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, the Secretary shall provide to the congressional defense committees briefings on activities established and plans developed under this section.