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[CITE: 10USC663]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
                  CHAPTER 38--JOINT OFFICER MANAGEMENT
 
Sec. 663. Education

    (a) Capstone Course for New General and Flag Officers.--(1) Each 
officer selected for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or, in 
the case of the Navy, rear admiral (lower half) shall be required, after 
such selection, to attend a military education course designed 
specifically to prepare new general and flag officers to work with the 
other armed forces.
    (2) Subject to paragraph (3), the Secretary of Defense may waive 
paragraph (1)--
        (A) in the case of an officer whose immediately previous 
    assignment was in a joint duty assignment and who is thoroughly 
    familiar with joint matters;
        (B) when necessary for the good of the service;
        (C) in the case of an officer whose proposed selection for 
    promotion is based primarily upon scientific and technical 
    qualifications for which joint requirements do not exist (as 
    determined under regulations prescribed under section 619(e)(4) of 
    this title); and
        (D) in the case of a medical officer, dental officer, veterinary 
    officer, medical service officer, nurse, biomedical science officer, 
    or chaplain.

    (3) The authority of the Secretary of Defense to grant a waiver 
under paragraph (2) may only be delegated to the Deputy Secretary of 
Defense, an Under Secretary of Defense, or an Assistant Secretary of 
Defense. Such a waiver may be granted only on a case-by-case basis in 
the case of an individual officer.
    (b) Joint Military Education Schools.--The Secretary of Defense, 
with the advice and assistance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of 
Staff, shall periodically review and revise the curriculum of each 
school of the National Defense University (and of any other joint 
professional military education school) to enhance the education and 
training of officers in joint matters. The Secretary shall require such 
schools to maintain rigorous standards for the military education of 
officers with the joint specialty.
    (c) Other Professional Military Education Schools.--The Secretary of 
Defense shall require that each Department of Defense school concerned 
with professional military education periodically review and revise its 
curriculum for senior and intermediate grade officers in order to 
strengthen the focus on--
        (1) joint matters; and
        (2) preparing officers for joint duty assignments.

    (d) Post-Education Joint Duty Assignments.--(1) The Secretary of 
Defense shall ensure that each officer with the joint specialty who 
graduates from a joint professional military education school shall be 
assigned to a joint duty assignment for that officer's next duty 
assignment after such graduation (unless the officer receives a waiver 
of that requirement by the Secretary in an individual case).
    (2)(A) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that a high proportion 
(which shall be greater than 50 percent) of the officers graduating from 
a joint professional military education school who do not have the joint 
specialty shall receive assignments to a joint duty assignment as their 
next duty assignment after such graduation or, to the extent authorized 
in subparagraph (B), as their second duty assignment after such 
graduation.
    (B) The Secretary may, if the Secretary determines that it is 
necessary to do so for the efficient management of officer personnel, 
establish procedures to allow up to one-half of the officers subject to 
the joint duty assignment requirement in subparagraph (A) to be assigned 
to a joint duty assignment as their second (rather than first) 
assignment after such graduation from a joint professional military 
education school.
    (e) Duration of Principal Course of Instruction at Joint Forces 
Staff College.--(1) The duration of the principal course of instruction 
offered at the Joint Forces Staff College may not be less than three 
months.
    (2) In this subsection, the term ``principal course of instruction'' 
means any course of instruction offered at the Joint Forces Staff 
College as Phase II joint professional military education.

(Added Pub. L. 99-433, title IV, Sec. 401(a), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 
1027; amended Pub. L. 101-189, div. A, title XI, Sec. 1123(c)(1), Nov. 
29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1557; Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title IX, 
Sec. 912(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1452; Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, 
title IX, Sec. 933(a), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1735; Pub. L. 106-398, 
Sec. 1 [[div. A], title IX, Sec. 913(c)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 
1654A-230.)


                               Amendments

    2000--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 106-398 substituted ``Joint Forces Staff 
College'' for ``Armed Forces Staff College'' wherever appearing in 
heading and text.
    1993--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103-160 amended subsec. (d) generally. 
Prior to amendment, subsec. (d) read as follows: ``Post-Education Duty 
Assignments.--The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that--
        ``(1) unless waived by the Secretary in an individual case, each 
    officer with the joint specialty who graduates from a joint 
    professional military education school shall be assigned to a joint 
    duty assignment for that officer's next duty assignment; and
        ``(2) a high proportion (which shall be greater than 50 percent) 
    of the other officers graduating from a joint professional military 
    education school also receive assignments to a joint duty assignment 
    as their next duty assignment.''
    1991--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 102-190 designated existing provisions as 
par. (1) and added par. (2).
    1989--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 101-189 added subsec. (e).


                    Effective Date of 1993 Amendment

    Section 933(b) of Pub. L. 103-160 provided that: ``The amendments 
made by subsection (a) [amending this section] shall apply with respect 
to officers graduating from joint professional military education 
schools after the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 30, 1993].''


                    Effective Date of 1991 Amendment

    Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title IX, Sec. 912(b), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 
Stat. 1452, as amended by Pub. L. 102-484, div. A, title IX, Sec. 921, 
Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2473, provided that the amendment made by 
section 912(a)(2) of Pub. L. 102-190 to this section was not to apply 
with respect to the Armed Forces Staff College until Jan. 1, 1994.


                    Implementation of Subsection (e)

    Section 1123(c)(2) of Pub. L. 101-189 provided that: ``Subsection 
(e) of such section, as added by paragraph (1), shall be implemented by 
the Secretary of Defense not later than two years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act [Nov. 29, 1989].''


        Education Requirements; Joint Officer Management Program

    Section 406(d) of Pub. L. 99-433 provided that:
    ``(1) Capstone course.--Subsection (a) of section 663 of such title 
[10 U.S.C. 663(a)] (as added by section 401) shall apply with respect to 
officers selected in reports of officer selection boards submitted to 
the Secretary concerned after the end of the 120-day period beginning on 
the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 1, 1986].
    ``(2) Review of military education schools.--(A) The first review 
under subsections (b) and (c) of such section shall be completed not 
later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. The 
Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the results of 
the review at each Department of Defense school not later than 60 days 
thereafter.
    ``(B) Such subsections shall be implemented so that the revised 
curricula take effect with respect to courses beginning after July 1987.
    ``(3) Post-education duty assignments.--Subsection (d) of such 
section shall take effect with respect to classes graduating from joint 
professional military education schools after January 1987.''
