SPECIAL TRANSITION RULES FOR NUCLEAR PROPULSION OFFICERS

SEC. 1305.SPECIAL TRANSITION RULES FOR NUCLEAR PROPULSION OFFICERS (a) Joint Duty Assignment Requirement for Promotion to Flag Rank.—Paragraph (1) of section 619(e) of title 10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: “(1) An officer may not be appointed to the grade of brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half) unless the officer has completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment (as described in section 664(f) of this title). Before January 1, 1992, an officer of the Navy designated as a qualified nuclear propulsion officer may be appointed to the grade of rear admiral (lower half) without regard to the preceding sentence, but an officer so appointed may not be appointed to the grade of rear admiral until the officer completes a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment.” (b) Transition Plan.—(1)The Secretary of Defense, after consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall develop and carry out a plan for ensuring that— (A) during the period before January 1, 1992, the maximum practicable number of officers of the Navy who are qualified 101 STAT. 1174 nuclear propulsion officers serve in joint duty assignments and otherwise fulfill the provisions of chapter 38 of title 10, United States Code; and (B) by January 1, 1992, the maximum practicable number of qualified nuclear populsion officers in the grade of captain have qualified for appointment to the grade of rear admiral (lower half) by completing a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment. (2) The plan shall include milestones for each calendar year beginning with 1989 requiring that a progressively greater proportion of qualified nuclear propulsion officers fulfill the various requirements of chapter 38 of title 10, United States Code, and other provisions of law enacted by title IV of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–433) so that after January 1, 1992, the nuclear propulsion community will be capable of complying with the requirements of that chapter without undue reliance on waivers granted by the Secretary of Defense. (c) Implementation.—The plan required to be developed under subsection (b) shall be implemented at the earliest practicable date, but in no event later than six months after the date of enactment of this Act. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall monitor the implementation of such plan. (d) Report.—On the date on which the plan required to be developed under subsection (b) is implemented, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives— (1) a copy of the plan; and (2) a report explaining how the plan fulfills the objectives prescribed in subsection (b).