Editorial Notes
Amendments

2016—Pub. L. 114–328 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, section required Secretary of Defense, in consultation with Director of National Intelligence and Secretary of Commerce, to prepare strategic plan for the management of the electromagnetic spectrum.

2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–291 inserted a comma after “Every three years” in introductory provisions.

2013—Pub. L. 113–66, § 1072(b)(1), struck out “: biennial strategic plan” after “spectrum” in section catchline.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–66, § 1072(a)(1), substituted “three years” for “other year, and in time for submission to Congress under subsection (b),”, inserted “, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Commerce,” after “Secretary of Defense”, substituted “the national security of the United States. Each such strategic plan shall include each of the following:” for “the mission of the Department of Defense.”, and added pars. (1) to (3).

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 113–66, § 1072(a)(2), added subsec. (b). Former subsec. (b) redesignated (c).

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 113–66, § 1072(a)(3), designated existing provisions as par. (1) and added par. (2).

Pub. L. 113–66, § 1072(a)(2), redesignated subsec. (b) as (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Issuance of Instruction or Directive

Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title X, § 1065(b), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2410, provided that: “The Secretary of Defense shall—

“(1)
not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 23, 2016], issue a Department of Defense Instruction or a Department of Defense Directive to carry out section 488(a) of title 10, United States Code, as amended by subsection (a); and
“(2)
upon the date of the issuance of the instruction or directive issued under paragraph (1), submit to the congressional defense committees [Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives] such instruction or directive.”