10 U.S.C. § 2113b — Academic Health System

(a) The Secretary of Defense may establish an Academic Health System in the National Capital Region to integrate military health-system health care, health-professions education, and health-research activities, including activities under this chapter. (b)(1) The Secretary may appoint Department of Defense employees to leadership positions in the System. (2) Those positions may manage the activities in subsection (a) and are additional to similar leadership positions for armed-forces members. (c) “National Capital Region” means the area, or part of it, near the District of Columbia that the Secretary determines. This section does not define the quoted term beyond this rule.