115 STAT. 1194 PUBLIC LAW 107-107—DEC. 28, 2001 (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 136 the following new item: "136a. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.". (b) EXECUTIVE LEVEL IV.—Section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by inserting after "Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy." the following: "Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness.". (c) REDUCTION IN NUMBER OF ASSISTANT SECRETARIES OF DEFENSE.— (1) Section 138(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking "nine" and inserting "eight". (2) Section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking "(9)" after "Assistant Secretaries of Defense" and inserting "(8)". 5 USC 5315 note. (d) EFFECTIVE DATE. —The amendments made by subsection (c) shall take effect on the date on which a person is first appointed as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. SEC. 902. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON FUNCTIONS OF NEW OFFICE OF FORCE TRANSFORMATION IN THE OFFICE OF THE SEC- RETARY OF DEFENSE. (a) FINDINGS.— Congress finds the following: (1) The Armed Forces should give careful consideration to implementing transformation to meet operational challenges and exploit opportunities resulting from changes in the threat environment and the emergence of new technologies. (2) The Department of Defense 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review Report, issued by the Secretary of Defense on September 30, 2001, states that "The purpose of transformation is to maintain or improve U.S. military preeminence in the face of potential disproportionate discontinuous changes in the strategic environment. Transformation must therefore be focused on emerging strategic and operational challenges and the opportunities created by these challenges.". (3) That report further states that "To support the transformation effort, and to foster innovation and experimentation, the Department will establish a new office reporting directly to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense.". (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS ON FUNCTIONS OF OFFICE OF FORCE TRANSFORMATION.— It is the sense of Congress that the Director of the Office of Force Transformation within the Office of the Secretary of Defense should advise the Secretary on— (1) development of force transformation strategies to ensure that the military of the future is prepared to dissuade potential military competitors and, if that fails, to fight and win decisively across the spectrum of future conflict; (2) ensuring a continuous and broadly focused transformation process; (3) service and joint acquisition and experimentation efforts, funding for experimentation efforts, promising operational concepts and technologies, and other transformation activities, as appropriate; and (4) development of service and joint operational concepts, transformation implementation strategies, and risk management strategies.
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