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[CITE: 10USC1723]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER 87--DEFENSE ACQUISITION WORKFORCE
 
              SUBCHAPTER II--DEFENSE ACQUISITION POSITIONS
 
Sec. 1723. General education, training, and experience 
        requirements
        
    (a) Qualification Requirements.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
establish education, training, and experience requirements for each 
acquisition position, based on the level of complexity of duties carried 
out in the position. In establishing such requirements for positions 
other than critical acquisition positions designated pursuant to section 
1733 of this title, the Secretary may state the requirements by 
categories of positions.
    (b) Limitation on Credit for Training or Education.--Not more than 
one year of a period of time spent pursuing a program of academic 
training or education in acquisition may be counted toward fulfilling 
any requirement established under this chapter for a certain period of 
experience.

(Added Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title XII, Sec. 1202(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 
104 Stat. 1642; amended Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title X, 
Sec. 1074(a)(9)(A), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2659.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-201 struck out ``Unless otherwise 
provided in this chapter, such requirements shall take effect not later 
than October 1, 1993.'' after first sentence.


   Guidance and Standards for Defense Acquisition Workforce Training 
                              Requirements

    Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title VIII, Sec. 853, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 
Stat. 1851, provided that: ``The Secretary of Defense shall develop 
appropriate guidance and standards to ensure that the Department of 
Defense will continue, where appropriate and cost-effective, to enter 
into contracts for the training requirements of sections 1723, 1724, and 
1735 of title 10, United States Code, while maintaining appropriate 
control over the content and quality of such training.''


              Fulfillment Standards for Mandatory Training

    Pub. L. 102-484, div. A, title VIII, Sec. 812(c), Oct. 23, 1992, 106 
Stat. 2451, as amended by Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title X, 
Sec. 1073(d)(2)(A), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1905, provided that the 
Secretary of Defense, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for 
Acquisition and Technology, was to develop, not later than 90 days after 
Oct. 23, 1992, fulfillment standards, and implement a program, for 
purposes of the training requirements of sections 1723, 1724, and 1735 
of this title, and that the standards were to take effect as of Nov. 5, 
1990, and cease to be in effect on Oct. 1, 1997.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1725, 1735 of this title.
