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[CITE: 10USC1731]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER 87--DEFENSE ACQUISITION WORKFORCE
 
                    SUBCHAPTER III--ACQUISITION CORPS
 
Sec. 1731. Acquisition Corps: in general

    (a) Acquisition Corps.--The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that 
an Acquisition Corps is established for each of the military departments 
and one or more Corps, as he considers appropriate, for the other 
components of the Department of Defense. A separate Acquisition Corps 
may be established for each of the Navy and the Marine Corps.
    (b) Promotion Rate for Officers in Acquisition Corps.--The Secretary 
of Defense shall ensure that the qualifications of commissioned officers 
selected for an Acquisition Corps are such that those officers are 
expected, as a group, to be promoted at a rate not less than the rate 
for all line (or the equivalent) officers of the same armed force (both 
in the zone and below the zone) in the same grade.
    (c) OPM Approval.--The Secretary of Defense shall submit any 
requirement with respect to civilian employees established under section 
1732 of this title to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management 
for approval. If the Director does not disapprove the requirement within 
30 days after the date on which the Director receives the requirement, 
the requirement is deemed to be approved by the Director.

(Added Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title XII, Sec. 1202(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 
104 Stat. 1644.)


           Promotion Rate for Officers in an Acquisition Corps

    Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title VIII, Sec. 849, Nov. 18, 1997, 111 
Stat. 1846, as amended by Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title IX, 
Sec. 911(a)(1), title X, Sec. 1067(4), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 717, 774, 
provided that:
    ``(a) Review of Acquisition Corps Promotion Selections.--Upon the 
approval of the President or his designee of the report of a selection 
board convened under section 611(a) of title 10, United States Code, 
which considered members of an Acquisition Corps of a military 
department for promotion to a grade above O-4, the Secretary of the 
military department shall submit a copy of the report to the Under 
Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for 
review.
    ``(b) Reporting Requirement.--Not later than January 31 of each 
year, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and 
Logistics shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate 
and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a 
report containing the Under Secretary's assessment of the extent to 
which each military department is complying with the requirement set 
forth in section 1731(b) of title 10, United States Code.
    ``(c) Termination of Requirements.--This section shall cease to be 
effective on October 1, 2000.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1706, 1762 of this title.
