1996 US Code
Title 10 - ARMED FORCES
Subtitle A - General Military Law
PART III - TRAINING AND EDUCATION
CHAPTER 108 - DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SCHOOLS
Sec. 2162 - Preparation of budget requests for operation of professional military education schools

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§2162. Preparation of budget requests for operation of professional military education schools

(a) Uniform Cost Accounting.—The Secretary of Defense, with the advice and assistance of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall promulgate a uniform cost accounting system for use by the Secretaries of the military departments in preparing budget requests for the operation of professional military education schools.

(b) Preparation of Budget Requests.—(1) Amounts requested for a fiscal year for the operation of each professional military education school shall be set forth as a separate budget request in the materials submitted by the Secretary of Defense to Congress in support of the budget request for the Department of Defense.

(2) The Secretary of a military department preparing a budget request for a professional military education school shall carefully consider the views of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, particularly with respect to the amount of the request for the operation of the schools of the National Defense University and the joint professional military education curricula of the other professional military education schools.

(c) Comparison of Budget Requests.—Materials prepared in support of the budget request for a professional military education school shall describe whether the amount requested for that school is comparable to the amounts requested for other professional military education schools, taking into consideration the size and activities of the schools.

(d) Definitions.—In this section:

(1) The term “professional military education school” means—

(A) the National Defense University;

(B) the Army War College;

(C) the College of Naval Warfare;

(D) the Air War College;

(E) the United States Army Command and General Staff College;

(F) the College of Naval Command and Staff;

(G) the Air Command and Staff College; or

(H) the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.

(2) The term “National Defense University” means the National War College, the Armed Forces Staff College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

(Added Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title IX, §911(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1625.)

Effective Date

Section 911(b)[(c)] of Pub. L. 101–510 provided that: “Section 2162 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply with respect to fiscal years after fiscal year 1991.”