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 PUBLIC LAW 105-85—NOV. 18, 1997 111 STAT. 1859 (B) the revision of the definitions of the terms "management headquarters activities" and "management headquarters support activities" under that Directive so that those terms apply uniformly throughout the Department of Defense. (c) DUTIES OF TASK FORCE ON DEFENSE REFORM TO INCLUDE CONSIDERATION OF MANAGEMENT HEADQUARTERS ACTIVITIES. —(1) The Secretary of Defense shall require that the areas of study of the Task Force on Defense Reform (established by the Secretary of Defense on May 14, 1997, and headed by the Deputy Secretary of Defense) include an examination of the missions, functions, and responsibilities of the various management headquarters activities and management headquarters support activities of the Department of Defense. In carrying out that examination of those activities, the Task Force shall identify areas of duplication in those activities and recommend to the Secretary options to streamline, reduce, and eliminate redundancies. (2) The examination of the missions, functions, and responsibilities of the various management headquarters activities and management headquarters support activities of the Department of Defense under paragraph (1) shall include the following: (A) An assessment of benefits of consolidation or selected elimination of Department of Defense management headquarters activities and management headquarters support activities. (B) An assessment of the opportunities to streamline the management headquarters and management headquarters support infrastructure that were realized as a result of the enactment of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-355) and the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (divisions D and E of Public Law 104-106) or as result of other management reform initiatives implemented administratively during the period from 1993 through 1997. (C) An assessment of such other options for streamlining or restructuring the management headquarters and management headquarters support infrastructure as the Task Force considers appropriate and as can be carried out under existing provisions of law. (3) Not later than March 1, 1998, the Secretary of Defense Reports. shall submit to Congress a report on the results of the examination by the Task Force under this subsection. The Secretary shall include in the report any report to the Secretary from the Task Force with respect to the matters described in paragraphs (1) and (2). (d) CODIFICATION OF PRIOR PERMANENT LIMITATION ON OSD PERSONNEL.—(1) Chapter 4 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end a new section 143 consisting of— (A) a heading as follows: "§ 143. Office of the Secretary of Defense personnel: limitation"; and (B) a text consisting of the text of subsections (a) through (f) of section 903 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201; 110 Stat. 2617). (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: "143. Office of the Secretary of Defense personnel: limitation.".

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