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[CITE: 10USC192]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
            PART I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS
 
 CHAPTER 8--DEFENSE AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FIELD ACTIVITIES
 
           SUBCHAPTER I--COMMON SUPPLY AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES
 
Sec. 192. Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field 
        Activities: oversight by the Secretary of Defense
        
    (a) Overall Supervision.--(1) The Secretary of Defense shall assign 
responsibility for the overall supervision of each Defense Agency and 
Department of Defense Field Activity designated under section 191(b) of 
this title--
        (A) to a civilian officer within the Office of the Secretary of 
    Defense listed in section 131(b) of this title; or
        (B) to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

    (2) An official assigned such a responsibility with respect to a 
Defense Agency or Department of Defense Field Activity shall advise the 
Secretary of Defense on the extent to which the program recommendations 
and budget proposals of such agency or activity conform with the 
requirements of the military departments and of the unified and 
specified combatant commands.
    (3) This subsection does not apply to the Defense Intelligence 
Agency or the National Security Agency.
    (b) Program and Budget Review.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
establish procedures to ensure that there is full and effective review 
of the program recommendations and budget proposals of each Defense 
Agency and Department of Defense Field Activity.
    (c) Periodic Review.--(1) Periodically (and not less often than 
every two years), the Secretary of Defense shall review the services and 
supplies provided by each Defense Agency and Department of Defense Field 
Activity to ensure that--
        (A) there is a continuing need for each such agency and 
    activity; and
        (B) the provision of those services and supplies by each such 
    agency and activity, rather than by the military departments, is a 
    more effective, economical, or efficient manner of providing those 
    services and supplies or of meeting the requirements for combat 
    readiness of the armed forces.

    (2) Paragraph (1) shall apply to the National Security Agency as 
determined appropriate by the Secretary, in consultation with the 
Director of Central Intelligence. The Secretary shall establish 
procedures under which information required for review of the National 
Security Agency shall be obtained.
    (d) Special Rule for Defense Commissary Agency.--Notwithstanding the 
results of any periodic review under subsection (c) with regard to the 
Defense Commissary Agency, the Secretary of Defense may not transfer to 
the Secretary of a military department the responsibility to manage and 
fund the provision of services and supplies provided by the Defense 
Commissary Agency unless the transfer of the management and funding 
responsibility is specifically authorized by a law enacted after October 
17, 1998.

(Added Pub. L. 99-433, title III, Sec. 301(a)(2), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 
Stat. 1020; amended Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title III, Sec. 361(a), 
Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 1984; Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title X, 
Sec. 1066(a)(3), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 770.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 192, Pub. L. 98-215, title V, Sec. 501(a), Dec. 9, 
1983, 97 Stat. 1478, which related to benefits for certain personnel of 
the Defense Intelligence Agency, was redesignated as section 1605 of 
this title and amended by Pub. L. 99-145, title XIII, Sec. 1302(a)(1), 
Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 737. Provisions of prior section 192 as related 
to members of the armed forces were enacted as section 431 of Title 37, 
Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services, by section 1302(b)(1) of 
Pub. L. 99-145.


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106-65 substituted ``October 17, 1998'' 
for ``the date of the enactment of this subsection''.
    1998--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 105-261 added subsec. (d).


        First Review of Defense Agencies by Secretary of Defense

    Section 304(a) of Pub. L. 99-433 provided that: ``The first review 
under section 192(c) of title 10, United States Code (as added by 
section 301(a)), shall be completed not later than two years after the 
date that the report under section 303(e) [see section 303(f) of Pub. L. 
99-433, set out as a note under section 191 of this title] is required 
to be submitted to Congress.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2482 of this title.
