---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1765"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1765"
heading: "Competency development"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1765"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 87 — Defense Acquisition Workforce"
  - "Subchapter V — General Management Provisions"
---

# §1765. Competency development


For each [acquisition workforce](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-18) career field, the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall—

- (1) establish, for the civilian personnel in that career field, defined proficiency [standards](/usc/10/3011.md?p=3) and technical and nontechnical competencies which shall be used in personnel qualification assessments; and
- (2) assign resources to accomplish such technical and nontechnical competencies.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title VIII, § 861(i)(1), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1518.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Deadline for Implementation

Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title VIII, § 861(i)(3), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1519, provided that: “Not later than the end of the two-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 20, 2019], the Secretary of Defense shall carry out the requirements of section 1765 of title 10, United States Code (as added by paragraph (1)).”