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10 U.S.C. § 2152 — Joint professional military education: general requirements
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**(a) In General.—** The Secretary of Defense shall implement a comprehensive framework for the joint professional military education of officers, including officers nominated under [section 661 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section661&num=0&edition=prelim) for the joint specialty.
**(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.
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**(a) In General.—** The Secretary of Defense shall implement a comprehensive framework for the joint professional military education of officers, including officers nominated under [section 661 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section661&num=0&edition=prelim) for the joint specialty.
**(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.
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**(a) Joint Qualified Officers.—** The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that each officer designated as a joint qualified officer who graduates from a school within the National Defense University specified in subsection (c) 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).
**(b) Other Officers.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that a high proportion (which shall be greater than 50 percent) of the officers graduating from a school within the National Defense University specified in subsection (c) who are not designated as a joint qualified officer shall receive assignments to a joint duty assignment (or, as authorized by the Secretary in an individual case, to a joint assignment other than a joint duty assignment) as their next duty assignment after such graduation or, to the extent authorized in paragraph (2), as their second duty assignment after such graduation.
(2) 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 assignment requirement in paragraph (1) to be assigned to such an assignment as their second (rather than first) assignment after such graduation from a school referred to in paragraph (1).
**(c) Covered Schools Within the National Defense University.—** For purposes of this section, a school within the National Defense University specified in this subsection is one of the following:
(1) The National War College.
(2) The Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy.
(3) The Joint Forces Staff College.
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**(a) Establishment.—** The Secretary of Defense shall establish policies, procedures, and practices for the effective management of officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps on the active-duty list, and officers of the Space Force on the Space Force officer list, who are particularly trained in, and oriented toward, joint matters (as defined in [section 668 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section668&num=0&edition=prelim)). Such officers shall be identified or designated (in addition to their principal military occupational specialty) as a joint qualified officer or in such other manner as the Secretary of Defense directs.
**(b) Levels, Designation, and Numbers.—**
(1)
(A) The Secretary of Defense shall establish different levels of joint qualification, as well as the criteria for qualification at each level. Such levels of joint qualification shall be established by the Secretary with the advice of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Each level shall, as a minimum, have both joint education criteria and joint experience criteria. The purpose of establishing such qualification levels is to ensure a systematic, progressive, career-long development of officers in joint matters and to ensure that officers serving as general and flag officers have the requisite experience and education to be highly proficient in joint matters.
(B) The number of officers who are joint qualified shall be determined by the Secretary of Defense, with the advice of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Such number shall be large enough to meet the requirements of subsection (d).
(2) Certain officers shall be designated as joint qualified by the Secretary of Defense with the advice of the Chairman of the Joint
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 2152
of joint matters and, specifically, of the subject
matter covered. The subject matter to be cov-
ered by joint professional military education
shall include at least the following:
(1) National Military Strategy.
(2) Joint planning at all levels of war.
(3) Joint doctrine.
(4) Joint command and control.
(5) Joint force and joint requirements devel-
opment.
(6) Operational contract support.
(b) OTHER DEFINITIONS.—In this chapter:
(1) The term ‘‘senior level service school’’
means any of the following:
(A) The Army War College.
(B) The College of Naval Warfare.
(C) The Air War College.
(D) The Marine Corps War College.
(2) The term ‘‘intermediate level service
school’’ means any of the following:
(A) The United States Army Command and
General Staff College.
(B) The College of Naval Command and
Staff.
(C) The Air Command and Staff College.
(D) The Marine Corps Command and Staff
College.
(3) The term ‘‘joint intermediate level
school’’ includes the National Intelligence
University.
(Added Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title V, § 532(a)(2),
Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1897; amended Pub. L.
112–81, div. A, title V, § 552(a)(2), Dec. 31, 2011, 125
Stat. 1412; Pub. L. 112–239, div. A, title VIII,
§ 845(c), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 1848; Pub. L.
118–159, div. A, title V, § 554, Dec. 23, 2024, 138
Stat. 1896.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2024—Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 118–159 substituted ‘‘Na-
tional Intelligence University’’ for ‘‘National Defense
Intelligence College’’.
2013—Subsec. (a)(6). Pub. L. 112–239 added par. (6).
2011—Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 112–81 added par. (3).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
PROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION: REPORT;
DEFINITION
Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title V, § 559D, Dec. 27,
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