10 U.S.C. § 201 — Certain intelligence officials: consultation and concurrence regarding appointments; evaluation of performance

(a) Consultation regarding appointment: Before the Secretary of Defense recommends anyone to the President to be appointed Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Secretary must first consult with the Director of National Intelligence about that recommendation. (b) Concurrence in appointment: (1) If one of the positions listed in (2) becomes vacant, the Secretary of Defense must get the Director of National Intelligence to agree — "concur" — before either appointing someone to fill it, or recommending someone to the President to be nominated to fill it. This agreement process follows the rules in section 106(b) of the National Security Act of 1947. (2) This concurrence requirement covers three positions: (A) the Director of the National Security Agency, (B) the Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, and (C) the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. (c) Performance evaluations: (1) Each year, the Director of National Intelligence must give the Secretary of Defense a written evaluation, for the Secretary to consider, of how well the people holding the positions in (2) are doing their jobs related to the National Intelligence Program. (2) This evaluation requirement covers the same three positions listed above: the Directors of the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.