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10 U.S.C. § 668 — Definitions
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**(a) Joint Matters.—**
(1) In this chapter, the term “joint matters” means matters related to any of the following:
(A) The development or achievement of strategic objectives through the synchronization, coordination, and organization of integrated forces in operations conducted across domains, such as land, sea, or air, in space, or in the information environment, including matters relating to any of the following:
(i) National military strategy.
(ii) Strategic planning and contingency planning.
(iii) Command and control, intelligence, fires, movement and maneuver, protection or sustainment of operations under unified command.
(iv) National security planning with other departments and agencies of the United States.
(v) Combined operations with military forces of allied nations.
(B) Acquisition matters conducted by members of the armed forces and covered under chapter 87 of this title involved in developing, testing, contracting, producing, or fielding of multi-service programs or systems.
(C) Other matters designated in regulation by the Secretary of Defense in consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(2) In the context of joint matters, the term “integrated forces” refers to military forces that are involved in achieving unified action with participants from—
(A) more than one military department; or
(B) a military department and one or more of the following:
(i) Other departments and agencies of the United States.
(ii) The military forces or agencies of other countries.
(iii) Non-governmental persons or entities.
**(b) Joint Duty Assignment.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall by regulation define the term “joint duty assignment” for the purposes of this chapter. That definition—
(A)
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**(a) Joint Matters.—**
(1) In this chapter, the term “joint matters” means matters related to any of the following:
(A) The development or achievement of strategic objectives through the synchronization, coordination, and organization of integrated forces in operations conducted across domains, such as land, sea, or air, in space, or in the information environment, including matters relating to any of the following:
(i) National military strategy.
(ii) Strategic planning and contingency planning.
(iii) Command and control, intelligence, fires, movement and maneuver, protection or sustainment of operations under unified command.
(iv) National security planning with other departments and agencies of the United States.
(v) Combined operations with military forces of allied nations.
(B) Acquisition matters conducted by members of the armed forces and covered under chapter 87 of this title involved in developing, testing, contracting, producing, or fielding of multi-service programs or systems.
(C) Other matters designated in regulation by the Secretary of Defense in consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(2) In the context of joint matters, the term “integrated forces” refers to military forces that are involved in achieving unified action with participants from—
(A) more than one military department; or
(B) a military department and one or more of the following:
(i) Other departments and agencies of the United States.
(ii) The military forces or agencies of other countries.
(iii) Non-governmental persons or entities.
**(b) Joint Duty Assignment.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall by regulation define the term “joint duty assignment” for the purposes of this chapter. That definition—
(A) shall be limited to assignments in which—
(i) the preponderance of the duties of the officer involve joint matters and
(ii) the officer gains significant experience in joint matters; and
(B) shall exclude student assignments for joint training and education.
(2) The Secretary shall publish a joint duty assignment list showing—
(A) the positions that are joint duty assignment positions under such regulation and the number of such positions and, of those positions, those that are positions held by general or flag officers and the number of such positions; and
(B) of the positions listed under subparagraph (A), those that are critical joint duty assignment positions and the number of such positions and, of those positions, those that are positions held by general or flag officers and the number of such positions.
**(c) Clarification of “Tour of Duty”.—** For purposes of this chapter, a tour of duty in which an officer serves in more than one joint duty assignment without a break between such assignments shall be considered to be a single tour of duty in a joint duty assignment.
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**(a) General Rule.—** The length of a joint duty assignment shall be not less than two years.
**(b) Waiver Authority.—** The Secretary of Defense may waive subsection (a) in the case of any officer.
**(c) Exclusions From Tour Length.—** The Secretary of Defense may exclude the following service from the requirement in subsection (a):
(1) Service in a joint duty assignment in which the full tour of duty in the assignment is not completed by the officer because of—
(A) retirement;
(B) release from active duty;
(C) suspension from duty under section 155(f)(2) or 164(g) of this title; or
(D) a qualifying reassignment from a joint duty assignment as prescribed by the Secretary of Defense in regulations.
(2) Service in a joint duty assignment in a case in which the officer’s tour of duty in that assignment brings the officer’s accrued service for purposes of subsection (d)(2) to the requirement in subsection (a).
**(d) Full Tour of Duty.—** An officer shall be considered to have completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment upon completion of any of the following:
(1) A joint duty assignment that meets the requirement in subsection (a).
(2) Accrued joint experience in joint duty assignments as described in subsection (e).
(3) A joint duty assignment with respect to which the Secretary of Defense has granted a waiver under subsection (b), but only in a case in which the Secretary determines that the service completed by that officer in that duty assignment shall be considered to be a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment.
(4) A second and subsequent joint duty assignment that is less than the period required under subsection (a).
**(e) Accrued Joint Experience.—** For the purposes of subsection (d)(2), the Secretary of Defense may presc
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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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**(a) Joint Program Offices.—** The Secretary of Defense shall take appropriate actions to ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that space development and acquisition programs of the Department of Defense are carried out through joint program offices.
**(b) Officer Management Programs.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall take appropriate actions to ensure, to the maximum extent practicable, that—
(A) Army, Navy, and Marine Corps officers, as well as Air Force officers, are assigned to the space development and acquisition programs of the Department of Defense; and
(B) Army, Navy, and Marine Corps officers, as well as Air Force officers, are eligible, on the basis of qualification, to hold leadership positions within the joint program offices referred to in subsection (a).
(2) The Secretary of Defense shall designate those positions in the Office of the National Security Space Architect of the Department of Defense (or any successor office) that qualify as joint duty assignment positions for purposes of chapter 38 of this title.
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 668
RETROACTIVE JOINT SERVICE CREDIT FOR DUTY IN
CERTAIN JOINT TASK FORCES
Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title V, § 523, Dec. 28, 2001, 115
Stat. 1097, provided that, in accordance with subsec. (i)
of this section, the Secretary of Defense was authorized
to award joint service credit to any officer who served
on the staff of a United States joint task force head-
quarters in certain operations and during certain peri-
ods, and the Secretary was required to submit to Con-
gress a report of the numbers, by service, grade, and op-
eration, of the officers given joint service credit not
later than one year after Dec. 28, 2001.
JOINT
DUTY
CREDIT
FOR
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DUTY
PERFORMED
DURING
OPERATIONS
DESERT
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Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title IX, § 932, Nov. 30, 1993, 107
Stat. 1735, provided extension of authority until the
end of the 90-day period beginning on Nov. 30, 1993, to
give certain officers joint duty credit pursuant to Pub.
L. 102–484, § 933, formerly set out below.
Pub. L. 102–484, div. A, title IX, § 933, Oct. 23, 1992, 106
Stat. 2476, as amended by Pub. L. 103–35, title II,
§ 202(a)(9), May 31, 1993, 107 Stat. 101; Pub. L. 103–160,
div. A, title IX, § 932(c)(1), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1735,
temporarily authorized the Secretary of Defense to
give an officer who had completed service during the
period beginning on Aug. 2, 1990, and ending on Feb. 28,
1991, in an assignment in the Persian Gulf combat zone,
credit, on a case-by-case basis, for having completed a
full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment, or credit
countable for determining cumulative service in joint
duty assignments, for the purposes of any provision of
this title, notwithstanding the length of such service or
whether that serv
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