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 100 STAT. 1000

PUBLIC LAW 99-433—OCT. 1, 1986 (2) Whether the planning, programming, and budgeting system of the Department of Defense (including the role of the Office in such system) needs to be revised— (A) to strengthen strategic planning and policy direction; (B) to ensure that strategic planning is consistent with national security strategy, policies, and objectives; (C) to ensure that there is a sufficient relationship between strategic planning and the resource levels projected to be available for the period for which the planning is to be effective; (D) to ensure that strategic planning and program development give sufficient attention to alliances with other nations; (E) to provide for more effective oversight, control, and evaluation of policy, program, and budget execution; and (F) to ensure that past program and budget decisions are effectively evaluated, that such evaluations are supported by consistent, complete, and timely financial and performance data, and that such evaluations are fully considered in the next planning, programming, and budgeting cycle. (3) Whether the major force program categories of the FiveYear Defense Plan could be restructured to better assist decisionmaking and management control. (4) Means to improve and strengthen the oversight function within each element of the Office in policy areas not addressed by the planning, programming, and budgeting system. (5) Factors inhibiting efficient and effective execution of the functions of the Office, including factors relating to— (A) duplication of functions (both within the Office and between the Office and other elements of the Department); (B) insufficient information; and (C) insufficient resources (including personnel). (6) Alternative allocations of authorities and functions of the Office and other reorganization proposals for the Office, including the desirability of— (A) establishing Under Secretaries of Defense for missionoriented areas of responsibility; (B) decentralizing functions of the Office; (C) reducing the number of officials reporting directly to the Secretary of Defense; and (D) changing the ratio of members of the Armed Forces to civilian employees in the Office. (7) Whether political appointees in the Office of the Secretary of Defense have sufficient experience and expertise, upon appointment, to be capable of contributing immediately to effective policy formulation and management. (e) ANALYSIS OF CIVIUAN CONTROL.—(1) The Secretary of Defense,

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in considering under subsection (d)(1)(A) whether effective civilian control of the Department of Defense is best assisted by the current structure of the Office, shall examine the functions performed in the Office by— (A) members of the Armed Forces on the active-duty list; and (B) members of the Armed Forces in a retired status and members of the reserve components who are employed in a civilian capacity. (2) Such examination shall include a determination of the total number of positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense above

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