JOINT REQUIREMENTS OVERSIGHT COUNCIL.

SEC. 908. JOINT REQUIREMENTS OVERSIGHT COUNCIL. Section 181 of title 10, United States Code, as added effective January 31, 1997, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(d) Availability of Oversight Information to Congressional Defense Committees.— (1) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that, in the case of a recommendation by the Chairman to the Secretary that is approved by the Secretary, oversight information with respect to such recommendation that is produced as a result of the activities of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council is made available in a timely fashion to the congressional defense committees. “(2) In this subsection: “(A) The term ‘oversight information’ means information and materials comprising analysis and justification that are prepared to support a recommendation that is made to, and approved by, the Secretary of Defense. “(B) The term ‘congressional defense committees’ means— “(i) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and “(ii) the Committee on National Security and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives”.