- acquisition workforce
means the persons serving in acquisition positions within the Department of Defense, as designated pursuant to section 1721(a) of this title.
- active duty
means full-time duty in the active military service of the United States, including sustained duty in the Space Force.
- active duty for a period of more than 30 days
means active duty under a call or order that does not specify a period of 30 days or less.
- Active Guard and Reserve
means a member of a reserve component who is on active duty pursuant to section 12301(d) of this title or, if a member of the Army National Guard or Air National Guard, is on full-time National Guard duty pursuant to section 502(f) of title 32, and who is performing Active Guard and Reserve duty.
- active Guard and Reserve duty
means active duty performed by a member of a reserve component of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, or full-time National Guard duty performed by a member of the National Guard pursuant to an order to full-time National Guard duty, for a period of 180 consecutive days or more for the purpose of organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or training the reserve components.
- active service
means service on active duty or full-time National Guard duty.
- active status
means the status of a member of a reserve component who is not in the inactive Army National Guard or inactive Air National Guard, on an inactive status list, or in the Retired Reserve.
- active-duty list
means a single list for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force (required to be maintained under section 620 of this title) which contains the names of all officers of that armed force, other than officers described in section 641 of this title, who are serving on active duty.
- Air National Guard
means that part of the organized militia of the several States and Territories, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, active and inactive, that—
- Air National Guard of the United States
means the reserve component of the Air Force all of whose members are members of the Air National Guard.
- armed forces
means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
- Army National Guard
means that part of the organized militia of the several States and Territories, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, active and inactive, that—
- Army National Guard of the United States
means the reserve component of the Army all of whose members are members of the Army National Guard.
- authorized strength
means the largest number of members authorized to be in an armed force, a component, a branch, a grade, or any other category of the armed forces.
- base closure law
means the following:
- climate resilience
means the capability to avoid, prepare for, minimize the effect of, adapt to, and recover from, extreme weather, or from anticipated or unanticipated changes in environmental conditions, that do (or have the potential to) adversely affect the national security of the United States or of allies and partners of the United States.
- commissioned officer
includes a commissioned warrant officer.
- congressional defense committees
means—
- contingency operation
means a military operation that—
- covered defense law
means—
- Defense Agency
means an organizational entity of the Department of Defense—
- dental officer
means an officer of the Dental Corps of the Army, an officer of the Dental Corps of the Navy, or an officer of the Air Force designated as a dental officer.
- Department of Defense Field Activity
means an organizational entity of the Department of Defense—
- energy resilience
means the ability to avoid, prepare for, minimize, adapt to, and recover from anticipated and unanticipated energy disruptions in order to ensure energy availability and reliability sufficient to provide for mission assurance and readiness, including mission essential operations related to readiness, and to execute or rapidly reestablish mission essential requirements.
- energy security
means having assured access to reliable supplies of energy and the ability to protect and deliver sufficient energy to meet mission essential requirements.
- enlisted member
means a person in an enlisted grade.
- executive part of the department
means the executive part of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, or Department of the Air Force, as the case may be, at the seat of government.
- extreme weather
means recurrent flooding, drought, desertification, wildfires, thawing permafrost, sea level fluctuation, changes in mean high tides, or any other weather-related event, or anticipated change in environmental conditions, that present (or are projected to present) a recurring annual threat to the climate security of the United States or of allies and partners of the United States.
- flag officer
means an officer of the Navy or Coast Guard serving in or having the grade of admiral, vice admiral, rear admiral, or rear admiral (lower half).
- full-time National Guard duty
means training or other duty, other than inactive duty, performed by a member of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Air National Guard of the United States in the member’s status as a member of the National Guard of a State or territory, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia under section 316, 502, 503, 504, or 505 of title 32 for which the member is entitled to pay from the United States or for which the member has waived pay from the United States.
- general officer
means an officer of the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force serving in or having the grade of general, lieutenant general, major general, or brigadier general.
- grade
means a step or degree, in a graduated scale of office or military rank, that is established and designated as a grade by law or regulation.
- inactive-duty training
means— Such term includes those duties when performed by Reserves in their status as members of the National Guard.
- includes
means “includes but is not limited to”;
- major weapon system
means a weapon system acquired pursuant to a major defense acquisition program (as that term is defined in section 4201 of this title).
- medical officer
means an officer of the Medical Corps of the Army, an officer of the Medical Corps of the Navy, or an officer in the Air Force designated as a medical officer.
- military departments
means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force.
- military installation resilience
means the capability of a military installation to avoid, prepare for, minimize the effect of, adapt to, and recover from extreme weather events, anticipated or unanticipated changes in environmental conditions, energy or water disruptions, or human-induced hazards with respect to the environment, that do, or have the potential to, adversely affect the military installation or essential transportation, logistical, or other necessary resources outside of the military installation that are necessary in order to maintain, improve, or rapidly reestablish installation mission assurance and mission-essential functions.
- military munitions
means all ammunition products and components produced for or used by the armed forces for national defense and security, including ammunition products or components under the control of the Department of Defense, the Coast Guard, the Department of Energy, and the National Guard.
- National Guard
means the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard.
- no person may * * *
means that no person is required, authorized, or permitted to do the act prescribed;
- officer
means a commissioned or warrant officer.
- operational range
means a range that is under the jurisdiction, custody, or control of the Secretary of a military department and—
- pay
includes basic pay, special pay, retainer pay, incentive pay, retired pay, and equivalent pay, but does not include allowances.
- possessions
includes the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Guano Islands, so long as they remain possessions, but does not include any Commonwealth.
- range activities
means—
- rank
means the order of precedence among members of the armed forces.
- rate
means the name (such as “chief boatswain’s mate”) prescribed for members in the same rating or other category who are in the same grade (such as chief petty officer or seaman apprentice).
- rating
means the name (such as “boatswain’s mate”) prescribed for members of an armed force in an occupational field.
- reserve active-status list
means a single list for the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps (required to be maintained under section 14002 of this title) that contains the names of all officers of that armed force except warrant officers (including commissioned warrant officers) who are in an active status in a reserve component of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps and are not on an active-duty list.
- Secretary concerned
means—
- service acquisition executive
means the civilian official within a military department who is designated as the service acquisition executive for purposes of regulations and procedures providing for a service acquisition executive for that military department.
- space force active status
means the status of a member of the Space Force who is not in a space force inactive status and is not retired.
- space force inactive status
means the status of a member of the Space Force who is designated by the Secretary of the Air Force, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, as being in a space force inactive status.
- space force retired status
means the status of a member of the Space Force who—
- spouse
means husband or wife, as the case may be.
- supplies
includes material, equipment, and stores of all kinds.
- sustained duty
means full-time duty by a member of the Space Force ordered to such duty by an authority designated by the Secretary of the Air Force—
- unexploded ordnance
means military munitions that—
- uniformed services
means—
- warrant officer
means a person who holds a commission or warrant in a warrant officer grade.