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After the failure of passage of House Amendment 183, [11] an amendment to prohibit the DoD from funding gender reassignment surgeries sponsored by Vicky Hartzler, [12] to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018, House Republicans went to Defense Secretary James Mattis to make the prohibition, but he refused. An extensive DoD ...
SES career appointees have civil service protections; they may only be fired or suspended for more than 14 days for misconduct, neglect of duty, malfeasance, or failure to accept a directed reassignment or to accompany a position in a transfer of function. These adverse actions may be appealed to the Merit Systems Protection Board. [5]
Prohibit all use of Department of Defense or Department of Homeland Security resources to fund sex reassignment surgery procedures for military personnel, except to the extent necessary to protect the health of an individual who has already begun a course of treatment to reassign his or her sex. This provision takes effect on March 23, 2018.
Section 921 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, which was signed into law on 13 August 2018, required CMO to provide to Congress: 1) a plan, schedule, and cost estimate for conducting reforms within the enterprise business operations of the DoD by February 2019; and 2) a certification that the DoD ...
The Director of Administration and Management, or DA&M, is a position within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) at the Department of Defense.As the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense concerning organizational and administrative management matters, the DA&M is responsible for: developing and maintaining organizational charters and ...
In May 2003, the Defense Department proposed the Defense Transformation Act for the 21st Century, which would have removed many of the legislative constraints on three- and four-star officer management, including allowing general and flag officers to serve until age 68 and the secretary of defense (then 70-year-old Donald Rumsfeld) to defer ...
Ford said it would cut around 14% of its European workforce on Wednesday, blaming losses in recent years due to weak electric vehicle demand, poor government support for the EV shift and ...
The President of the United States is, according to the Constitution, the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces and Chief Executive of the Federal Government. The Secretary of Defense is the "Principal Assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense", and is vested with statutory authority (10 U.S.C. § 113) to lead the Department and all of its component ...