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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§1608 Time-limited Appointments

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 83 — CIVILIAN DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE EMPLOYEES › SUBCHAPTER I — DEFENSE-WIDE INTELLIGENCE PERSONNEL POLICY › § 1608

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense can make rules that let certain hiring officials put people into temporary defense intelligence jobs named by those rules. Each temporary job must be checked at the end of its first year, and the Secretary must decide if it will continue for the rest of the term; any extension after year one needs the Secretary’s approval. A person in a temporary appointment cannot get a permanent Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service job unless they are chosen through a competitive selection. A time-limited appointment lasts no more than two years and is subject to the first-year review.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §1608

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Authority for Time-Limited Appointments.—
The Secretary of Defense may by regulation authorize appointing officials to make time-limited appointments to defense intelligence positions specified in the regulations.
(b)Review of Use of Authority.—
The Secretary of Defense shall review each time-limited appointment in a defense intelligence position at the end of the first year of the period of the appointment and determine whether the appointment should be continued for the remainder of the period. The continuation of a time-limited appointment after the first year shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary.
(c)Condition on Permanent Appointment to Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service.—
An employee serving in a defense intelligence position pursuant to a time-limited appointment is not eligible for a permanent appointment to a Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service position (including a position in which the employee is serving) unless the employee is selected for the permanent appointment on a competitive basis.
(d)Time-Limited Appointment Defined.—
In this section, the term “time-limited appointment” means an appointment (subject to the condition in subsection (b)) for a period not to exceed two years.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 1608 was renumbered section 1623 of this title.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1635 of Pub. L. 104–201, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1996 Amendment note under section 1593 of this title.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 1608

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110