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Center shall ensure that the Director of the Center is pro-
vided a staff and administrative support that are adequate
for the Director to perform the duties of the position under
this section effectively.
‘‘(2) The Secretary of Defense may transfer to the De-
fense Contract Support Acquisition Center any personnel
within the Department of Defense whose principal duty is
the acquisition of contract services for the Department of
Defense.
‘‘(3) The Secretary of a military department may
transfer to the Contract Support Acquisition Center of that
military department any personnel within such military
department whose principal duty is the acquisition of con-
tract services for that military department.
‘‘(h) TRANSFERS OF NONDEFENSE ORGANIZATIONS.—
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (5), the Secretary of
Defense may accept from the head of a department or agen-
cy outside the Department of Defense a transfer to any of
the Contract Support Acquisition Centers of all or part of
any organizational unit of such other department or agency
that is primarily engaged in the acquisition of contract
services if, during the most recent year for which data are
available before such transfer, more than 50 percent of the
contract services acquired by such organizational unit (de-
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termined on the basis of cost) were acquired on behalf of
the Department of Defense.
‘‘(2) The head of a department or agency outside the
Department of Defense may transfer in accordance with
this section an organizational unit that is authorized to be
accepted under paragraph (1).
‘‘(3) A transfer under this subsection may be made and
accepted only pursuant to a memorandum of understanding
that is entered into by the head of the department or agency
making the transfer and the Secretary of Defense.
‘‘(4) A transfer of an organizational unit under this
section shall include the transfer of the personnel of such
organizational unit, the assets of such organizational unit,
and the contracts of such organizational unit, to the extent
provided in the memorandum of understanding governing
the transfer of the unit.
‘‘(5) This section does not authorize a transfer of the
multiple award schedule program of the General Services
Administration described in section 2302(2)(C) of this title.
‘‘(i) SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION THRESHOLD.—In this
section, the term ‘simplified acquisition threshold’ has the
meaning given that term in section 2302(7) of this title.’’.
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions at the beginning of such subchapter is amended
by adding at the end the following new item:
‘‘197. Contract Support Acquisition Centers.’’.
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(b) IMPLEMENTATION.—
(1) PHASED
IMPLEMENTATION
OF
DIRECTOR’S
AUTHORITY TO ACT AS EXECUTIVE AGENT.—Notwith-
standing subsections (c)(1) and (e) of section 197 of
title 10, United States Code (as added by subsection
(a)), the authority of the Director of a Contract Sup-
port Acquisition Center to act under such section as
executive agent for acquisitions of contract services be-
fore October 1, 2009, applies only with respect to—
(A) contracts in excess of $10,000,000 that
are entered into after September 30, 2006, and
before October 1, 2009; and
(B) any other acquisitions of contract serv-
ices that, as designated by the Secretary who ap-
pointed the Director, are to be carried out for
that Secretary by the Director.
(2) PROCUREMENT MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE.—
The Secretary of Defense shall implement section
2330 of title 10, United States Code (relating to a
management structure for the procurement of services
for the Department of Defense), by designating each
Director of the Contract Support Acquisition Center
appointed under section 197 of such title (as added
by subsection (a)) to act as executive agent for the
management of the procurements of services carried
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out for the Secretary appointing such Director with
respect to—
(A) all contracts in excess of $10,000,000
that are entered into after September 30, 2006,
and before October 1, 2009; and
(B) all contracts in excess of the simplified
acquisition threshold (as defined in section
2302(7) of such title) that are entered into after
September 30, 2009.
(3) COMPLIANCE
WITH
CERTAIN
PUBLIC
LAW
108–375 REQUIREMENTS.—For compliance with the re-
quirements of section 854 of the Ronald W. Reagan
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2005 (Public Law 108–375; 118 Stat. 2022, 10
U.S.C. 2304 note), the Secretary concerned shall des-
ignate the Director of the Contract Support Acquisi-
tion Center appointed by that Secretary to act as the
executive agent of that Secretary to review and ap-
prove the use of a contract for the acquisition of con-
tract services that—
(A) is entered into after September 30,
2006, by a department or agency outside the De-
partment of Defense; and
(B) if entered into—
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(i) before October 1, 2009, is valued in
excess of $10,000,000; or
(ii) after September 30, 2009, is valued
in excess of the simplified acquisition
threshold (as defined in section 2302(7) of
title 10, United States Code).
(4) SECRETARY CONCERNED DEFINED.—In para-
graph (3), the term ‘‘Secretary concerned’’ means the
head of an agency named in subsection (f)(1) of sec-
tion 854 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law
108–375; 118 Stat. 2022; 10 U.S.C. 2304 note).
SEC. 803. AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO ACQUISITION AND
CROSS-SERVICING AGREEMENTS WITH RE-
GIONAL 
ORGANIZATIONS 
OF 
WHICH 
THE
UNITED STATES IS NOT A MEMBER.
(a) ACQUISITION AGREEMENTS.—Section 2341(1) of
title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘of
which the United States is a member’’.
(b) 
CROSS-SERVICING
AGREEMENTS.—Section
2342(a)(1)(C) of such title is amended by striking ‘‘of which
the United States is a member’’.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 2344(b)(4) of
such title is amended by striking ‘‘of which the United
States is a member’’.