review and provide recommendations to the Secretary of Defense on Department of Defense budget requests for information technology and national security systems;

ensure the interoperability of information technology and national security systems throughout the Department of Defense;

ensure that information technology and national security systems standards that will apply throughout the Department of Defense are prescribed;

provide for the elimination of duplicate information technology and national security systems within and between the military departments and Defense Agencies; and

maintain a consolidated inventory of Department of Defense mission critical and mission essential information systems, identify interfaces between those systems and other information systems, and develop and maintain contingency plans for responding to a disruption in the operation of any of those information systems.

review budget requests for all information technology and national security systems;

ensure that information technology and national security systems are in compliance with standards of the Government and the Department of Defense;

ensure that information technology and national security systems are interoperable with other relevant information technology and national security systems of the Government and the Department of Defense; and

coordinate with the Joint Staff with respect to information technology and national security systems.

The term “Chief Information Officer” means the senior official designated by the Secretary of Defense or a Secretary of a military department pursuant to section 3506 of title 44.

The term “information technology” has the meaning given that term by section 11101 of title 40.

The term “national security system” has the meaning given that term by section 3552(b)(6) of title 44.