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[CITE: 10USC181]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
            PART I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS
 
               CHAPTER 7--BOARDS, COUNCILS, AND COMMITTEES
 
Sec. 181. Joint Requirements Oversight Council

    (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish a Joint 
Requirements Oversight Council in the Department of Defense.
    (b) Mission.--In addition to other matters assigned to it by the 
President or Secretary of Defense, the Joint Requirements Oversight 
Council shall--
        (1) assist the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 
    identifying and assessing the priority of joint military 
    requirements (including existing systems and equipment) to meet the 
    national military strategy;
        (2) assist the Chairman in considering alternatives to any 
    acquisition program that has been identified to meet military 
    requirements by evaluating the cost, schedule, and performance 
    criteria of the program and of the identified alternatives; and
        (3) as part of its mission to assist the Chairman in assigning 
    joint priority among existing and future programs meeting valid 
    requirements, ensure that the assignment of such priorities conforms 
    to and reflects resource levels projected by the Secretary of 
    Defense through defense planning guidance.

    (c) Composition.--(1) The Joint Requirements Oversight Council is 
composed of--
        (A) the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is the 
    chairman of the Council;
        (B) an Army officer in the grade of general;
        (C) a Navy officer in the grade of admiral;
        (D) an Air Force officer in the grade of general; and
        (E) a Marine Corps officer in the grade of general.

    (2) Members of the Council, other than the Chairman of the Joint 
Chiefs of Staff, shall be selected by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs 
of Staff, after consultation with the Secretary of Defense, from 
officers in the grade of general or admiral, as the case may be, who are 
recommended for such selection by the Secretary of the military 
department concerned.
    (3) The functions of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as 
chairman of the Council may only be delegated to the Vice Chairman of 
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
    (d) Availability of Oversight Information to Congressional Defense 
Committees.--(1) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that, in the case 
of a recommendation by the Chairman to the Secretary that is approved by 
the Secretary, oversight information with respect to such recommendation 
that is produced as a result of the activities of the Joint Requirements 
Oversight Council is made available in a timely fashion to the 
congressional defense committees.
    (2) In this subsection:
        (A) The term ``oversight information'' means information and 
    materials comprising analysis and justification that are prepared to 
    support a recommendation that is made to, and approved by, the 
    Secretary of Defense.
        (B) The term ``congressional defense committees'' means--
            (i) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the Senate; and
            (ii) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives.

(Added Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title IX, Sec. 905(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 
110 Stat. 403; amended Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title IX, Sec. 908, 
Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2621; Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title X, 
Sec. 1067(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 774.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (d)(2)(B)(ii). Pub. L. 106-65 substituted ``Committee 
on Armed Services'' for ``Committee on National Security''.
    1996--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104-201 added subsec. (d).


                             Effective Date

    Section 905(b) of Pub. L. 104-106 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by this section [enacting this section] shall take effect on 
January 31, 1997.''


    Semiannual Report on Joint Requirements Oversight Council Reform 
                               Initiative

    Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title IX, Sec. 916], Oct. 30, 
2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-231, provided that:
    ``(a) Semiannual Report.--The Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff 
shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the 
Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a series of 
five semiannual reports, as prescribed by subsection (b), on the 
activities of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. The principal 
focus of each such report shall be on the progress made on the 
initiative of the Chairman to reform and refocus the Joint Requirements 
Oversight Council.
    ``(b) Submission of Reports.--Reports under this section shall be 
submitted not later than March 1, 2001, September 1, 2001, March 1, 
2002, September 1, 2002, and March 1, 2003. Each report shall cover the 
half of a fiscal year that ends five months before the date on which the 
report is due.
    ``(c) Content.--In the case of any report under this section after 
the first such report, if any matter to be included is unchanged from 
the preceding report, that matter may be included by reference to the 
preceding report. Each such report shall include, to the extent 
practicable, the following:
        ``(1) A listing of each of the capability areas designated by 
    the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff as being within the 
    principal domain of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council and a 
    justification for each such designation.
        ``(2) A listing of the joint requirements developed, considered, 
    or approved within each of the capability areas listed pursuant to 
    paragraph (1).
        ``(3) A listing and explanation of the decisions made by the 
    Joint Requirements Oversight Council and, to the extent appropriate, 
    a listing of each of the recommendations to the Council made by the 
    commander of the United States Joint Forces Command.
        ``(4) An assessment of--
            ``(A) the progress made in shifting the Joint Requirements 
        Oversight Council to having a more strategic focus on future war 
        fighting requirements;
            ``(B) the progress made on integration of requirements; and
            ``(C) the progress made on development of overarching common 
        architectures for defense information systems to ensure that 
        common defense information systems are fully interoperable.
        ``(5) A description of any actions that have been taken to 
    improve the Joint Requirements Oversight Council.''
