115 STAT. 1100 PUBLIC LAW 107-107—DEC. 28, 2001 qualified officers in meeting both current and future requirements for joint specialty officers. (3) Recommendations, based on empirical and other data, to improve the effectiveness of the joint officer management system, especially with regard to the following: (A) The proper mix and sequencing of education assignments and experience assignments (to include, with respect to both types of assignments, consideration of the type and quality, and the length, of such assignments) to qualify an officer as a joint specialty officer, as well as the implications of adopting a variable joint duty tour length and the advisability and implications of a system of qualifying officers as joint specialty officers that uses multiple shorter qualification tracks to selection as a joint specialty officer than are now codified. (B) The system of using joint specialty officers, including the continued utility of such measures as— (i) the required fill of positions on the joint duty assignment list, as specified in paragraphs (1) and (4) of section 661(d) of title 10, United States Code; (ii) the fill by such officers of a required number of critical billets, as prescribed by section 661(d)(2) of such title; (iii) the mandated fill by general and flag officers of a minimum number of critical billets, as prescribed by section 661(d)(3) of such title; and (iv) current promotion policy objectives for officers with the joint specialty, officers serving on the Joint Staff, and officers serving in joint duty assignment list positions, as prescribed by section 662 of such title. (C) Changes in policy and law required to provide officers the required joint specialty qualification before promotion to general or flag officer grade. (D) A determination of the number of reserve component officers who would be qualified for designation as a joint specialty officer by reason of experience or education if the standards of existing law, including waiver authorities, were applied to them, and recommendations for a process for qualifying and employing future reserve component officers as joint specialty officers. (c) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED WITH RESPECT TO JOINT PROFES- SIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION. —With respect to the joint professional military education system, the entity conducting the independent study shall provide for the following: (1) The number of officers who under the current system (A) qualified as joint specialty officers by attending joint professional military education programs before their first joint duty assignment, (B) qualified as joint specialty officers after arriving at their first joint duty assignment but before completing that assignment, and (C) qualified as joint specialty officers without any joint professional military education. (2) Recommended initiatives (include changes in officer personnel management law, if necessary) to provide incentives and otherwise facilitate attendance at joint professional military education programs before an officer's first joint duty assignment.
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