---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1614"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1614"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1614"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 83 — Civilian Defense Intelligence Employees"
  - "Subchapter I — Defense-Wide Intelligence Personnel Policy"
---

# §1614. Definitions


In this subchapter:

- (1) The term “defense intelligence position” means a civilian position as an intelligence [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) or intelligence employee of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense.
- (2) The term “intelligence component of the Department of Defense” means any of the following:
  - (A) The [National Security](/usc/10/801.md?p=16) [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3).
  - (B) The Defense Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3).
  - (C) The National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3).
  - (D) Any other [component](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense that performs intelligence [functions](/usc/10/467.md?p=1) and is designated by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense as an [intelligence component of the Department of Defense](#2).
  - (E) Any successor to a [component](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) specified in, or designated pursuant to, this paragraph.
- (3) The term “congressional oversight committees” means—
  - (A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and
  - (B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.
- (4) The term “excepted service” has the meaning given such term in [section 2103 of title 5](/usc/5/2103.md).
- (5) The term “preference eligible” has the meaning given such term in [section 2108(3) of title 5](/usc/5/2108.md?p=3).
- (6) The term “Senior Executive Service position” has the meaning given such term in [section 3132(a)(2) of title 5](/usc/5/3132.md?p=a-2).
- (7) The term “collective bargaining agreement” has the meaning given such term in [section 7103(8) of title 5](/usc/5/7103.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XVI, § 1632(d), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2750; amended Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title X, § 1067(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 774; Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title XI, § 1141(c)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–319; Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title IX, § 921(d)(7), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1569.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2003—Par. (2)(C). Pub. L. 108–136 substituted “National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency” for “National Imagery and Mapping Agency”.

2000—Par. (1). Pub. L. 106–398 substituted “of the Department of Defense” for “of an intelligence component of the Department of Defense or of a military department”.

1999—Par. (3)(B). Pub. L. 106–65 substituted “Committee on Armed Services” for “Committee on National Security”.

### 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.