INTERAGENCY NATIONAL SECURITY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS.

SEC. 1051. INTERAGENCY NATIONAL SECURITY KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS.(a) Study Required.—(1) Selection of independent study organization.—Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall select and enter into an agreement with an appropriate independent, nonprofit organization to conduct a study of the matters described in subsection (b).(2) Qualifications of organization selected.—The organization selected shall be qualified on the basis of having relevant expertise in the fields of national security and human capital development, and on the basis of such other criteria as the Secretary of Defense may determine.(b) Matters to Be Covered.—The study required by subsection (a) shall assess the current state of interagency national 124 STAT. 4357 security knowledge and skills in Department of Defense civilian and military personnel, and make recommendations for strengthening such knowledge and skills. At minimum, the study shall include assessments and recommendations on—(1) interagency national security training, education, and rotational assignment opportunities available to civilians and military personnel;(2) integration of interagency national security education into the professional military education system;(3) levels of interagency national security knowledge and skills possessed by personnel currently serving in civilian executive and general or flag officer positions, as represented by the interagency education, training, and professional experiences they have undertaken;(4) incentives that enable and encourage military and civilian personnel to undertake interagency assignment, education, and training opportunities, as well as disincentives and obstacles that discourage undertaking such opportunities; and(5) any plans or current efforts to improve the interagency national security knowledge and skills of civilian and military personnel.(c) Report.—Not later than December 1, 2011, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing the findings and recommendations from the study required by subsection (a).(d) Definition.—In this section, the term “interagency national security knowledge and skills” means an understanding of, and the ability to efficiently and expeditiously work within, the structures, mechanisms, and processes by which the departments, agencies, and elements of the Federal Government that have national security missions coordinate and integrate their policies, capabilities, budgets, expertise, and activities to accomplish such missions.