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10 U.S.C. § 1781b — Department of Defense policy and plans for military family readiness
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**(a) Policy and Plans Required.—** The Secretary of Defense shall develop a policy and plans for the Department of Defense for the support of military family readiness.
**(b) Purposes.—** The purposes of the policy and plans required under subsection (a) are as follows:
(1) To ensure that the military family readiness programs and activities of the Department of Defense are comprehensive, effective, and properly supported.
(2) To ensure that support is continuously available to military families in peacetime and in war, as well as during periods of force structure change and relocation of military units.
(3) To ensure that the military family readiness programs and activities of the Department of Defense are available to all military families, including military families of members of the regular components, the reserve components, and the Space Force.
(4) To make military family readiness an explicit element of applicable Department of Defense plans, programs, and budgeting activities, and that achievement of military family readiness is expressed through Department-wide goals that are identifiable and measurable.
(5) To ensure that the military family readiness programs and activities of the Department of Defense undergo continuous evaluation in order to ensure that resources are allocated and expended for such programs and activities to achieve Department-wide family readiness goals.
**(c) Elements of Policy.—** The policy required under subsection (a) shall include the following elements:
(1) A list of military family readiness programs and activities.
(2) Department of Defense-wide goals for military family support, including joint programs, for military families of members of the regular components, members of the reserve components, and members of the S
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**(a) Policy and Plans Required.—** The Secretary of Defense shall develop a policy and plans for the Department of Defense for the support of military family readiness.
**(b) Purposes.—** The purposes of the policy and plans required under subsection (a) are as follows:
(1) To ensure that the military family readiness programs and activities of the Department of Defense are comprehensive, effective, and properly supported.
(2) To ensure that support is continuously available to military families in peacetime and in war, as well as during periods of force structure change and relocation of military units.
(3) To ensure that the military family readiness programs and activities of the Department of Defense are available to all military families, including military families of members of the regular components, the reserve components, and the Space Force.
(4) To make military family readiness an explicit element of applicable Department of Defense plans, programs, and budgeting activities, and that achievement of military family readiness is expressed through Department-wide goals that are identifiable and measurable.
(5) To ensure that the military family readiness programs and activities of the Department of Defense undergo continuous evaluation in order to ensure that resources are allocated and expended for such programs and activities to achieve Department-wide family readiness goals.
**(c) Elements of Policy.—** The policy required under subsection (a) shall include the following elements:
(1) A list of military family readiness programs and activities.
(2) Department of Defense-wide goals for military family support, including joint programs, for military families of members of the regular components, members of the reserve components, and members of the Space Force.
(3) Policies on access to military family support programs and activities based on military family populations served and geographical location.
(4) Metrics to measure the performance and effectiveness of the military family readiness programs and activities of the Department of Defense.
(5) A summary, by fiscal year, of the allocation of funds (including appropriated funds and nonappropriated funds) for major categories of military family readiness programs and activities of the Department of Defense, set forth for each of the military departments and for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, Pub. L. 114–94, div. D, title XLI, § 41013, Dec. 4, 2015, 129 Stat. 1761, provided that this subchapter shall terminate 7 years after Dec. 4, 2015.
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**(a)** The term “military construction” as used in this chapter or any other provision of law includes any construction, development, conversion, or extension of any kind carried out with respect to a military installation, whether to satisfy temporary or permanent requirements, or any acquisition of land or construction of a defense access road (as described in [section 210 of title 23](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title23-section210&num=0&edition=prelim)).
**(b)** A military construction project includes all military construction work, or any contribution authorized by this chapter, necessary to produce a complete and usable facility or a complete and usable improvement to an existing facility (or to produce such portion of a complete and usable facility or improvement as is specifically authorized by law).
**(c)** In this chapter and chapter 173 of this title:
(1) The term “appropriate committees of Congress” means the congressional defense committees and, with respect to any project to be carried out by, or for the use of, an intelligence component of the Department of Defense, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
(2) The term “facility” means a building, structure, or other improvement to real property.
(3) The term “life-cycle cost-effective”, with respect to a project, product, or measure, means that the sum of the present values of investment costs, capital costs, installation costs, energy costs, operating costs, maintenance costs, and replacement costs, as estimated for the lifetime of the project, product, or measure, does not exceed the base case (current or standard) for the practice, product, or measure.
(4) The term “mil
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**(a) In General.—** There is in the Department of Defense the Department of Defense Military Family Readiness Council (in this section referred to as the “Council”).
**(b) Members.—**
(1) The Council shall consist of the following members:
(A) The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, who shall serve as chair of the Council and who may designate a representative to chair the council in the Under Secretary’s absence.
(B) The following persons, who shall be appointed or designated by the Secretary of Defense:
(i) One representative of each of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force, each of whom shall be a member or civilian employee of the armed force to be represented.
(ii) One representative, who shall be a member or civilian employee of the National Guard Bureau, to represent both the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard.
(iii) One spouse or parent of a member of each of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force, two of whom shall be the spouse or parent of an active component member, two of whom shall be the spouse or parent of a reserve component member, and one of whom shall be the spouse or parent of a member of the Space Force.
(C) Three individuals appointed by the Secretary of Defense from among representatives of military family organizations, including military family organizations of families of members of the regular components and of families of members of the reserve components.
(D) The senior enlisted advisor from each of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force, except that two of these members may instead be selected from among the spouses of the senior enlisted advisors.
(E) The Director of the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy.
(2)
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**(a) In General.—** Except as provided by subsection (c), not later than 30 days before the date on which the Secretary of Defense or any other official of an element of the Department of Defense cancels or terminates a contract, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a notice of such cancellation or termination if such cancellation or termination involves a reduction in employment of not fewer than—
(1) 50 remote or isolated installation contractor employees; or
(2) 100 employees of contractors, including remote or isolated installation contractor employees.
**(b) Requirements.—** A notice described in subsection (a) shall include an assessment of the effect of such cancellation or termination on members of the armed forces.
**(c) Waiver.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense may waive the requirements of subsection (a) with respect to the cancellation or termination of a contract if the Secretary determines that such waiver is in the interest of national security.
(2) If the Secretary waives the requirements of subsection (a) with respect to the cancellation or termination of a contract, the Secretary shall submit the notice required by such subsection with respect to such cancellation or termination not later than one week after such cancellation or termination.
**(d) Definitions.—** In this section:
(1) The term “remote or isolated installation” means a military installation (as defined in [section 2801 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2801&num=0&edition=prelim)) that is a remote military installation, as determined by the Secretary pursuant to the policy required by section 565 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 ([10 U.S.C. 1781b](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granule
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 1781b
read as follows: ‘‘In addition to the representatives ap-
pointed under subparagraphs (B) and (C), the senior en-
listed advisors of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and
Air Force, or the spouse of a senior enlisted member
from each of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air
Force.’’
Pub. L. 111–383, § 581(a)(1)(A), redesignated subpar. (E)
as (F).
Subsec. (b)(1)(G). Pub. L. 111–383, § 581(b), added sub-
par. (G).
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 111–383, § 581(a)(2), substituted
‘‘subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E)’’ for ‘‘subparagraphs
(C) and (D)’’.
Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 111–383, § 581(d)(2), added par.
(3).
2009—Subsec. (b)(1)(C) to (E). Pub. L. 111–84, § 562(a),
added subpar. (C), redesignated former subpars. (C) and
(D) as (D) and (E), respectively, and substituted ‘‘sub-
paragraphs (B) and (C)’’ for ‘‘subparagraph (B)’’ in sub-
par. (E).
Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 111–84, § 562(b), substituted
‘‘subparagraphs (C) and (D) of paragraph (1)’’ for ‘‘para-
graph (1)(C)’’ and inserted at end ‘‘Representation on
the Council required by clause (i) of paragraph (1)(C)
shall rotate between the Army National Guard and Air
National Guard. Representation required by clause (ii)
of such paragraph shall rotate among the reserve com-
ponents specified in such clause.’’
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2018 AMENDMENT
Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title V, § 571(d), Aug. 13, 2018,
132 Stat. 1778, provided that:
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by this sec-
tion [amending this section] shall take effect on the
date of the enactment of this Act [Aug. 13, 2018].
‘‘(2) APPLICABILITY OF MEMBERSHIP AND TERM AMEND-
MENTS.—The amendments made by subsection (a) shall
apply to members of the Department of Defense Mil
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