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[CITE: 10USC193]

 
                         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. 193. Combat support agencies: oversight

    (a) Combat Readiness.--(1) Periodically (and not less often than 
every two years), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall submit 
to the Secretary of Defense a report on the combat support agencies. 
Each such report shall include--
        (A) a determination with respect to the responsiveness and 
    readiness of each such agency to support operating forces in the 
    event of a war or threat to national security; and
        (B) any recommendations that the Chairman considers appropriate.

    (2) In preparing each such report, the Chairman shall review the 
plans of each such agency with respect to its support of operating 
forces in the event of a war or threat to national security. After 
consultation with the Secretaries of the military departments and the 
commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands, as 
appropriate, the Chairman may, with the approval of the Secretary of 
Defense, take steps to provide for any revision of those plans that the 
Chairman considers appropriate.
    (b) Participation in Joint Training Exercises.--The Chairman shall--
        (1) provide for the participation of the combat support agencies 
    in joint training exercises to the extent necessary to ensure that 
    those agencies are capable of performing their support missions with 
    respect to a war or threat to national security; and
        (2) assess the performance in joint training exercises of each 
    such agency and, in accordance with guidelines established by the 
    Secretary of Defense, take steps to provide for any change that the 
    Chairman considers appropriate to improve that performance.

    (c) Readiness Reporting System.--The Chairman shall develop, in 
consultation with the director of each combat support agency, a uniform 
system for reporting to the Secretary of Defense, the commanders of the 
unified and specified combatant commands, and the Secretaries of the 
military departments concerning the readiness of each such agency to 
perform with respect to a war or threat to national security.
    (d) Review of National Security Agency and National Imagery and 
Mapping Agency.--(1) Subsections (a), (b), and (c) shall apply to the 
National Security Agency and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, 
but only with respect to combat support functions that the agencies 
perform for the Department of Defense.
    (2) The Secretary, after consulting with the Director of Central 
Intelligence, shall establish policies and procedures with respect to 
the application of subsections (a), (b), and (c) to the National 
Security Agency and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
    (e) Combat Support Capabilities of DIA, NSA, and NIMA.--The 
Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of Central 
Intelligence, shall develop and implement, as they may determine to be 
necessary, policies and programs to correct such deficiencies as the 
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other officials of the 
Department of Defense may identify in the capabilities of the Defense 
Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, and the National 
Imagery and Mapping Agency to accomplish assigned missions in support of 
military combat operations.
    (f) Definition of Combat Support Agency.--In this section, the term 
``combat support agency'' means any of the following Defense Agencies:
        (1) The Defense Communications Agency.
        (2) The Defense Intelligence Agency.
        (3) The Defense Logistics Agency.
        (4) The National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
        (5) Any other Defense Agency designated as a combat support 
    agency by the Secretary of Defense.

(Added Pub. L. 99-433, title III, Sec. 301(a)(2), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 
Stat. 1020; amended Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title XI, Sec. 1112(c), 
Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2683; Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title X, 
Sec. 1073(a)(5), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1900.)


                               Amendments

    1997--Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 105-85 substituted ``agencies 
perform'' for ``agencies performs''.
    1996--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104-201, Sec. 1112(c)(1)(A), substituted 
``Review of National Security Agency and National Imagery and Mapping 
Agency'' for ``Review of National Security Agency'' in heading.
    Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 104-201, Sec. 1112(c)(1)(B), inserted ``and 
the National Imagery and Mapping Agency'' after ``the National Security 
Agency'' and substituted ``that the agencies'' for ``the Agency''.
    Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 104-201, Sec. 1112(c)(1)(C), inserted ``and 
the National Imagery and Mapping Agency'' after ``the National Security 
Agency''.
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104-201, Sec. 1112(c)(2), substituted ``DIA, 
NSA, and NIMA'' for ``DIA and NSA'' in heading and ``, the National 
Security Agency, and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency'' for ``and 
the National Security Agency'' in text.
    Subsec. (f)(4). Pub. L. 104-201, Sec. 1112(c)(3), substituted ``The 
National Imagery and Mapping Agency'' for ``Defense Mapping Agency''.


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Section 1124 of title XI of div. A of Pub. L. 104-201 provided that: 
``This title [enacting section 424 and chapter 22 of this title and 
sections 404e and 404f of Title 50, War and National Defense, amending 
this section, sections 201 and 451 to 456 of this title, sections 2302, 
3132, 4301, 4701, 5102, 5342, 6339, and 7323 of Title 5, Government 
Organization and Employees, section 105 of the Ethics in Government Act 
of 1978, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, section 82 of Title 14, 
Coast Guard, section 2006 of Title 29, Labor, section 1336 of Title 44, 
Public Printing and Documents, and sections 401a and 403-5 of Title 50, 
renumbering chapter 22 and sections 451, 452, 2792 to 2796, and 2798 of 
this title as chapter 23 and sections 481, 482, 451 to 455, and 456 of 
this title, respectively, repealing sections 424, 425, 2791, and 2797 of 
this title, enacting provisions set out as notes under section 441 of 
this title, and amending provisions set out as a note under section 501 
of Title 44] and the amendments made by this title shall take effect on 
October 1, 1996, or the date of the enactment of this Act [Sept. 23, 
1996], whichever is later.''


   First Report and Other Actions by Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

    Section 304(b) of Pub. L. 99-433 required the first report under 
subsec. (a) of section 193 of this title to be submitted and subsecs. 
(b) and (c) of section 193 to be implemented not later than one year 
after Oct. 1, 1986, and a report on implementation to be submitted to 
Congress for 1988 under section 113(c) of this title.
