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Code · STATUTE-COMPILATIONS · National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 · Sec. 1087

Sec. 1087. GLOBAL CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK

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## SEC. 1087 GLOBAL CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORK **[**[10 U.S.C. 3013 note](/us/usc/t10/s3013)**]** ###
(a)Program Authorized The Secretary of the Army shall carry out a program to support the socio-cultural understanding needs of the Department of the Army, to be known as the Global Cultural Knowledge Network. ###
(b)Goals The Global Cultural Knowledge Network shall support the following goals: ####
(1)Provide socio-cultural analysis support to any unit deployed, or preparing to deploy, to an exercise or operation in the assigned region of responsibility of the unit being supported. ####
(2)Make recommendations or support policy or doctrine development to increase the social science expertise of military and civilian personnel of the Department of the Army. ####
(3)Provide reimbursable support to other military departments or Federal agencies if requested through an operational needs request process. ###
(c)Elements of the Program The Global Cultural Knowledge Network shall include the following elements: ####
(1)A center in the continental United States (referred to in this section as a “reach-back center”) to support requests for information, research, and analysis. ####
(2)Outreach to academic institutions and other Federal agencies involved in social science research to increase the network of resources for the reach-back center. ####
(3)Training with operational units during annual training exercises or during pre-deployment training. ####
(4)The training, contracting, and human resources capacity to rapidly respond to contingencies in which social science expertise is requested by operational commanders through an operational needs request process. ###
(d)Directive Required The Secretary of the Army shall issue a directive within one year after the date of the enactment of this Act for the governance of the Global Cultural Knowledge Network, including oversight and process controls for auditing the activities of personnel of the Network, the employment of the Global Cultural Knowledge Network by operational forces, and processes for requesting support by operational Army units and other Department of Defense and Federal entities. ###
(e)Prohibition on Deployments Under Global Cultural Knowledge Network ####
(1)Prohibition The Secretary of the Army may not deploy social scientists of the Global Cultural Knowledge Network in a conflict zone. ####
(2)Waiver The Secretary of the Army may waive the prohibition in paragraph
(1)if the Secretary submits, at least 10 days before the deployment, to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate— #####
(A)notice of the waiver; and #####
(B)a certification that there is a compelling national security interest for the deployment or there will be a benefit to the safety and welfare of members of the Armed Forces from the deployment. ####
(3)Elements of waiver notice A waiver notice under this subsection also shall include the following: #####
(A)The operational unit, or units, requesting support, including the location or locations where the social scientists are to be deployed. #####
(B)The number of Global Cultural Knowledge Network personnel to be deployed and the anticipated duration of such deployments. #####
(C)The anticipated resource needs for such deployment.
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