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10 U.S.C. § 8931 — National Oceanographic Partnership Program
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**(a) Establishment.—** The Secretary of the Navy shall establish a program to be known as the “National Oceanographic Partnership Program”.
**(b) Purposes.—** The purposes of the program are as follows:
(1) To promote the national goals of assuring national security, advancing economic development, protecting quality of life, ensuring environmental stewardship, and strengthening science education and communication through improved knowledge of the ocean.
(2) To coordinate and strengthen oceanographic efforts in support of those goals by—
(A) creating and carrying out partnerships among Federal agencies, academia, industry, and other members of the oceanographic community in the areas of science, data, technology development, resources, education, and communication; and
(B) accepting, planning, and executing oceanographic research projects funded by grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or other vehicles as appropriate, that contribute to assuring national security, advancing economic development, protecting quality of life, ensuring environmental stewardship, and strengthening science education and communication through improved knowledge of the ocean.
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**(a) Establishment.—** The Secretary of the Navy shall establish a program to be known as the “National Oceanographic Partnership Program”.
**(b) Purposes.—** The purposes of the program are as follows:
(1) To promote the national goals of assuring national security, advancing economic development, protecting quality of life, ensuring environmental stewardship, and strengthening science education and communication through improved knowledge of the ocean.
(2) To coordinate and strengthen oceanographic efforts in support of those goals by—
(A) creating and carrying out partnerships among Federal agencies, academia, industry, and other members of the oceanographic community in the areas of science, data, technology development, resources, education, and communication; and
(B) accepting, planning, and executing oceanographic research projects funded by grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or other vehicles as appropriate, that contribute to assuring national security, advancing economic development, protecting quality of life, ensuring environmental stewardship, and strengthening science education and communication through improved knowledge of the ocean.
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**(a) Defense Acquisition System.—** In this part, the term “defense acquisition system” means—
(1) the workforce engaged in carrying out the acquisition of property and services for the Department of Defense;
(2) the management structure responsible for directing and overseeing the acquisition of property and services for the Department of Defense; and
(3) the statutory, regulatory, and policy framework that guides the acquisition of property and services for the Department of Defense.
**(b) Element of the Defense Acquisition System.—** In this part, the term “element of the defense acquisition system” means an organization that—
(1) employs members of the acquisition workforce;
(2) carries out acquisition functions; and
(3) focuses primarily on acquisition.
**(c) Acquisition.—** In this part, the term “acquisition” has the meaning provided in [section 131 of title 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section131&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Establishment** The President shall establish a council, to be known as the “National Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization Council” (in this section referred to as the “Council”).
**(b) Purpose** The Council shall—
(1) update national priorities for ocean mapping, exploration, and characterization; and
(2) coordinate and facilitate activities to advance those priorities.
**(c) Reporting** The Council shall report to the Ocean Science and Technology Subcommittee of the Ocean Policy Committee established under [section 8932(c) of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section8932/c&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(d) Membership** The Council shall be composed of senior-level representatives from the appropriate Federal agencies.
**(e) Co-Chairs** The Council shall be co-chaired by—
(1) two senior-level representatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and
(2) one senior-level representative from the Department of the Interior.
**(f) Duties** The Council shall—
(1) set national ocean mapping, exploration, and characterization priorities and strategies;
(2) cultivate and facilitate transparent and sustained partnerships among Federal and State agencies, Indian Tribes, private industry, academia, and nongovernmental organizations to conduct ocean mapping, exploration, and characterization activities and related technology development;
(3) coordinate improved processes for data compilation, management, access, synthesis, and visualization with respect to ocean mapping, exploration, and characterization, with a focus on building on existing ocean data management systems and with appropriate safeguards on the public accessibility of data to protect national security equities, as appropriate;
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**(a) In general** The Secretary shall establish and maintain an ocean acidification program within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to conduct research, monitoring, coordination, and other activities consistent with the strategic research and implementation plan developed by the Subcommittee under [section 3704 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section3704&num=0&edition=prelim) that—
(1) includes—
(A) interdisciplinary research among the ocean and atmospheric sciences, and coordinated research and activities to improve understanding of ocean acidification and coastal acidification;
(B) the establishment of a long-term monitoring program of ocean acidification and coastal acidification utilizing existing global and national ocean observing assets, including leveraging, as appropriate, the Integrated Ocean Observing System and the ocean observing assets of other Federal, State, and Tribal agencies, and adding instrumentation and sampling stations as appropriate to the aims of the research program;
(C) prioritization of the location of monitoring instruments, assets, and projects to maximize the efficiency of resources and agency and department missions;
(D) an optimization of understanding of socioeconomic impacts and ecosystem health 11 So in original. Probably should be followed by a semicolon.
(E) research to identify and develop adaptation and mitigation strategies and techniques for effectively conserving marine ecosystems as they cope with increased ocean acidification and coastal acidification;
(F) technical assistance to socioeconomically vulnerable States, local governments, Tribal governments, communities, and industries impacted by ocean and coastal acidification to support
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 8931
retirement of a regular grade major general, except as
provided by section 8301 of title 5, on 30th day after he
completes 35 years of service or 5th anniversary of his
appointment in that regular grade, whichever is later,
with authority for Secretary of Air Force to defer re-
tirement in certain cases. See section 636 of this title.
Prior sections 8924 to 8926 were renumbered section
9324 to 9326, respectively, of this title.
A prior section 8927, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A
Stat. 553; Aug. 21, 1957, Pub. L. 85–155, title III, § 301(20),
71 Stat. 389; May 20, 1958, Pub. L. 85–422, § 11(a)(8), 72
Stat. 131; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85–861, § 1(196), 72 Stat.
1540; Sept. 30, 1966, Pub. L. 89–609, § 1(33), 80 Stat. 854, re-
lated to computation of years of service for deter-
mining whether a regular commissioned officer should
be retired under former section 8913, 8915, 8916, 8919,
8921, 8922, or 8923 of this title and for determining re-
tired pay of officers of Regular Air Force retired under
former section 8913, 8915, 8916, 8919, 8921, 8922, or 8923 of
this title, was repealed by Pub. L. 96–513, title II,
§ 217(a), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2886, effective Sept. 15,
1981. See section 1405 of this title.
A prior section 8928, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A
Stat. 554, related to computation of years of service of
Air Force Nurses or women medical specialists for pur-
poses of retirement under former section 8912 of this
title, or retirement pay under section 8991 of this title,
was repealed by Pub. L. 85–155, title IV, § 401(1), Aug. 21,
1957, 71 Stat. 390.
A prior section 8929 was renumbered section 9329 of
this title.
AMENDMENTS
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 7881 of this
title as this sec
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