10 U.S.C. § 132a — Performance Improvement Officer

(a) Establishment. (1) There is a Performance Improvement Officer of the Department of Defense. The Secretary of Defense appoints this Officer from among qualified people in the senior career civil service. (2) The Officer must be chosen from people who have deep management or business experience, especially experience managing large or complex organizations, leading organizational change, or leading business transformation work. (b) Deputy. The Performance Improvement Officer has a Deputy, also appointed by the Secretary of Defense from the senior career civil service. The Deputy is the Officer's first assistant, helps the Officer do the job, and steps in to act for the Officer — using the Officer's powers — if the Officer dies, resigns, or otherwise can't do the job. (c) Duties and responsibilities. Under the authority of the Secretary of Defense and Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Performance Improvement Officer carries out whatever duties, powers, and responsibilities the Secretary or Deputy Secretary assigns, including: (1) updating and carrying out the Department's Strategic Management Plan, required by the Fiscal Year 2008 defense authorization law; (2) chairing the Defense Performance Improvement Council, or whatever organization replaces it; (3) running the Defense Performance Improvement Framework set up under section 125a; (4) holding at least two Defense Management Action Group meetings a year, focused on the Strategic Management Plan; (5) overseeing transformational business modernization and re-engineering of Department business processes; (6) overseeing and tracking how the Department fixes problems identified on the Government Accountability Office's High Risk List, and other GAO recommendations; (7) acting as the lead official for modernizing the business processes that form the baseline for the Department's outside acquisitions and internal operations; (8) overseeing and managing the Defense Management Institute, or its successor; (9) co-chairing the Defense Business Council under section 2222(f)(1); and (10) having the authority to call meetings of Department personnel and organizations on matters tied to these duties.