PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION.

SEC. 527. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION. (a) Executive Agent for Funding.—(1) Effective beginning with fiscal year 2003, the Secretary of Defense shall be the executive agent for funding professional development education operations of all components of the National Defense University, including the Joint Forces Staff College. The Secretary may not delegate the Secretary’s functions and responsibilities under the preceding sentence to the Secretary of a military department. (2) Nothing in this subsection affects policies in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act with respect to— 115 STAT. 1102 (A) the reporting of the President of the National Defense University to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; or (B) provision of logistical and base operations support for components of the National Defense University by the military departments. (b) Preparation of Budget Requests.—Section 2162(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph: “(2) As executive agent for funding professional development education at the National Defense University, including the Joint Forces Staff College, the Secretary of Defense, with the advice of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall prepare the annual budget for professional development education operations at the National Defense University and set forth that request as a separate budget request in the materials submitted to Congress in support of the budget request for the Department of Defense. Nothing in the preceding sentence affects policies in effect on the date of the enactment of this paragraph with respect to budgeting for the funding of logistical and base operations support for components of the National Defense University through the military departments.”. (c) Funding Source.—(1) Section 2165 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(d) Source of Funds for Professional Development Education Operations.—Funding for the professional development education operations of the National Defense University shall be provided from funds made available to the Secretary of Defense from the annual appropriation ‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-wide’.”. (2) Subsection (d) of section 2165 of title 10, United States Code, as added by paragraph (1), shall become effective beginning with fiscal year 2003.