10 1 SEC. 10. PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL 2 3 MEETINGS. Section 101 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 4 U.S.C. 402) is amended by adding at the end thereof the 5 following new subsection: 6 "(e) The Chairman or Deputy Chairman of the Joint 7 Chiefs of Staff shall attend all meetings of the Council and 8 shall participate fully in its deliberations.". 9 SEC. 11. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON PLANS FOR FURTHER IM 10 11 PROVEMENTS. (a) REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT.-The Secretary of 12 Defense shall submit to Congress a report containing plans 13 for the manner in which the matters described in subsection 14 (b) could be implemented. 15 (b) MATTERS FOR WHICH PLANS TO BE DEVEL16 OPED.-The matters referred to in subsection (a) are the 17 following: (1) Creation of a joint specialty for officers within each of the Armed Forces, including— (A) measures to ensure the preferential selection for duty in joint assignments of officers with such a joint specialty; (B) means to provide a role for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the consideration and selection for promotion of officers who have HR 3622 IH 11 served on the Joint Staff or in other joint positions; and (C) procedures to ensure the representation of officers serving in joint positions on each promotion board considering officers for selection for promotion to a grade above the grade of lieutenant colonel or, in the case of the Navy, the grade of commander. (2) Modifications to administrative directives in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act in order to specify that the military chain of command runs from the President to the Secretary of Defense and from the Secretary of Defense through the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands. (3) Provision for a program and budget for each of the unified and specified combatant commands (A) separate from the programs and budgets of the military department and other elements of the Department of Defense; and (B) developed and administered by the commanders of those commands under the supervision of the Chairman. (4) Establishment of procedures under which the Chairman (with the support of the Joint Staff and the HR 3622 IH 12 1 advice of the other members of the Joint Chiefs of 2 Staff) may recommend to the Secretary of Defense a 3 4 force posture and five-year defense program to achieve national security objectives within the policy and budg 5 etary guidelines established by the President and Secretary of Defense. 6 7 བ 6 10 11 (5) Establishment of procedures for periodic sub 8 mission to the President and Secretary of Defense by the Chairman of a report containing the Chairman's recommendations for such modifications to the unified command plan as the Chairman considers to be required to ensure that the combatant commands are properly structured to contribute to achieving national objectives, with each such report to be preceded by the formal review of 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 (A) the international situation as it relates to United States theater forces; and (B) the adequacy of the existing structure of the combatant commands, in responding to these conditions, to provide for the unified and strategic direction of the combatant forces, for their oper ation under unified command, and for their inte gration into an efficient team of land, naval, and air forces, in accordance with the congressional purpose set forth in the last clause in section 2 of HR 3622 IH 1 2 3 13 the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401). (c) DEADLINE FOR REPORT.-The report required by 4 this section shall be submitted not later than six months after 5 the date of the enactment of this Act. HR 3622 IH 1 [COMMITTEE PRINT] OCTOBER 21, 1985 CHANGES IN EXISTING Law Made BY THE JCS REORGANIZATION BILL REPORTED BY THE INVESTIGATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE Changes in existing law made by the bill are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italics, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman): TITLE 10, UNITED STATES CODE Subtitle A-General Military Law PART I-ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL CHAPTER 3-GENERAL POWERS § 124. Combatant commands: establishment; composition; functions; administration and support (a) With the advice and assistance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the President, through the Secretary of Defense, shall (1) establish unified combatant commands or specified combatant commands to perform military missions; and (2) prescribe the force structure of those commands. (b) The military departments shall assign forces to combatant commands established under this section to perform the missions of those commands. A force so assigned is under the full operational command of the commander of the command to which it is assigned. It may be transferred from the command to which it is assigned only by authority of the Secretary and under procedures prescribed by the Secretary with the approval of the President. A force not so assigned remains, for all purposes, in the military department concerned. (c)(1) Combatant commands established under this section are responsible to the President and to the Secretary for such military missions as may be assigned to them by the Secretary with the approval of the President. (2) Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary, the Chairman [acts as the spokesman for the commanders of 53-509 O |