10 U.S.C. § 2113 — Administration of University

(a) The Secretary conducts the University’s business with Department of Defense appropriations. (b) The Secretary appoints the University President. (c)(1) After considering the President’s recommendations, the Secretary obtains the military and civilian professors, instructors, administrators, and other employees needed to operate the University. Civilian faculty and staff receive Secretary-prescribed salary schedules and retirement and related benefits comparable to employees of fully accredited health-professions schools identified by the Secretary. (2) The Secretary may give military and civilian faculty appropriate academic titles. (3) Military faculty must include a professor of military, naval, or air science, as the Secretary decides. (4) Title 5 sections 5307 and 5373 do not limit the Secretary’s authority to prescribe pay and related benefits, but an employee’s total yearly compensation may not exceed the total annual compensation, excluding expenses, specified in title 3 section 102. (d) The Secretary may make reimbursable agreements with Federal agencies to use existing Federal medical resources. The facilities keep their identities and basic missions. The Secretary may also make affiliation agreements with accredited universities, including payment for educational services for students in Defense educational programs. (e) The Secretary may establish postdoctoral, postgraduate, and technological institutes; a graduate nursing school; and other schools or programs, including certificate, certification, and undergraduate-degree programs, that the Secretary finds necessary to operate the University cost-effectively. (f) The Secretary must establish continuing medical-education programs for military health-professions members to maintain high health-care standards in military medical services. (g)(1) The Secretary may contract with, accept grants from, and make grants to the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine or another nonprofit entity for cooperative medical research, consultation, and education; provide such entities University space, facilities, equipment, and support services on appropriate terms; contract to provide needed professional, technical, or clerical personnel; accept, hold, administer, invest, and spend gifts, devises, or bequests of personal property, including for academic chairs, teaching, research, or demonstrations; agree to use the entities’ scientists or other personnel to improve University education, research, and technology applications; accept voluntary services from guest scholars and others; and, despite title 10 sections 2304, 4141, and 4024, make sole-source contracts and cooperative agreements with, accept grants from, and make grants to nonprofits for those cooperative enterprises or another mission-consistent purpose. (2) No contract may require University outlays before budget authority is enacted. (3) Scientists and medical personnel used under a research agreement may be appointed to University positions and perform duties the Secretary approves. (4) A volunteer is a Federal employee for title 5 chapter 81 work-injury compensation and title 28 chapter 171 tort claims. A person not otherwise a Federal employee is not one for other purposes merely because of the volunteer service.