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[CITE: 10USC3201]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                            Subtitle B--Army
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                          CHAPTER 331--STRENGTH
 
Sec. 3201. Officers on active duty: minimum strength based on 
        requirements
        
    (a) The Secretary of the Army shall ensure that (beginning with 
fiscal year 1999) the strength at the end of each fiscal year of 
officers on active duty is sufficient to enable the Army to meet at 
least that percentage of the programmed manpower structure for officers 
for the active component of the Army that is provided for in the most 
recent Defense Planning Guidance issued by the Secretary of Defense.
    (b) The number of officers on active duty shall be counted for 
purposes of this section in the same manner as applies under section 
115(a)(1) of this title.
    (c) In this section:
        (1) The term ``programmed manpower structure'' means the 
    aggregation of billets describing the full manpower requirements for 
    units and organizations in the programmed force structure.
        (2) The term ``programmed force structure'' means the set of 
    units and organizations that exist in the current year and that is 
    planned to exist in each future year under the then-current Future-
    Years Defense Program.

(Added Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title V, Sec. 505(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 
110 Stat. 295.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 3201, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 172; 
Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85-861, Sec. 1(62), 72 Stat. 1462; Oct. 13, 1964, 
Pub. L. 88-647, title III, Sec. 301(4), 78 Stat. 1071, prescribed the 
authorized strength of the Army in members on active duty, exclusive of 
certain categories, and the authorized daily average strength of the 
Army in members on active duty during the fiscal year, exclusive of 
certain categories, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96-513, title II, 
Sec. 202, title VII, Sec. 701, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2878, 2955, 
effective Sept. 15, 1981.


                 Assistance in Accomplishing Requirement

    Section 505(b) of Pub. L. 104-106 provided that: ``The Secretary of 
Defense shall provide to the Army sufficient personnel and financial 
resources to enable the Army to meet the requirement specified in 
section 3201 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection 
(a).''
