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 63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 412 -AUG. 10, 1949 President, of those issues upon which agreement among the Joint Chiefs of Staff has not been reached." (c) Section 212 of the National Security Act of 1947 is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 212. There shall be, under the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a Joint Staff to consist of not to exceed two hundred and ten officers and to be composed of approximately equal numbers of officers appointed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff from each of the three armed services. The Joint Staff, operating under a Director thereof appointed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall perform such duties as may be directed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Director shall be an officer junior in grade to all members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff." CHANGING THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE TO THE MUNITIONS BOARD SEC. 8 . Section 213 of the National Security Act of 1947 is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 213. (a) There is hereby established in the Department of Defense a Munitions Board (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'Board'). "(b) The Board shall be composed of a Chairman, who shall be the head thereof and who shall, subject to the authority of the Secretary of Defense and in respect to such matters authorized by him, have the power of decision upon matters falling within the jurisdiction of the Board, and an Under Secretary or Assistant Secretary from each of the three military departments, to be designated in each case by the Secretaries of their respective departments. The Chairman shall be appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive compensation at the rate of $14,000 a year. "(c) Subject to the authority and direction of the Secretary of Defense, the Board shall perform the following duties in support of strategic and logistic plans and in consonance with guidance in those fields provided by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and such other duties as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe: "(1) coordination of the appropriate activities with regard to industrial matters, including the procurement, production, and distribution plans of the Department of Defense; "(2) planning for the military aspects of industrial mobili- zation; "(3) assignment of procurement responsibilities among the several military departments and planning for standardization of specifications and for the greatest practicable allocation of pur- chase authority of technical equipment and common use items on the basis of single procurement; "(4) preparation of estimates of potential production, procure- ment, and personnel for use in evaluation of the logistic feasibility of strategic operations; "(5) determination of relative priorities of the various seg- ments of the military procurement programs; "(6) supervision of such subordinate agencies as are or may be created to consider the subjects falling within the scope of the Board's responsibilities; "(7) regrouping, combining, or dissolving of existing inter- service agencies operating in the fields of procurement, produc- tion, and distribution in such manner as to promote efficiency and economy; "(8) maintenance of liaison with other departments and agen- cies for the proper correlation of military requirements with the 583 61 Stat. 505. 5 U. S. C., Supp. II, 171g. Joint Staff. 61 Stat. 505. 5U.S. C., Supp.II, § 171h. Munitions Board. Composition. Chairman. Duties of Board.

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