---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 180"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "180"
heading: "Service academy athletic programs: review board"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/180"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 7 — Boards, Councils, and Committees"
---

# §180. Service academy athletic programs: review board

- (a) **Independent Review Board.—** The Secretary of Defense shall appoint a board to review the administration of the athletics programs of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Military Academy, the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Naval Academy, and the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Air Force Academy.
- (b) **Composition of Board.—** The Secretary shall appoint the [members](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the board from among distinguished administrators of institutions of higher education, [members](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of Congress, [members](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the Boards of Visitors of the academies, and other experts in collegiate athletics programs. The Superintendents of the three academies shall be [members](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the board. The Secretary shall designate one [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the board, other than a Superintendent of an academy, as Chairman.
- (c) **Duties.—** The board shall, on an annual basis—
  - (1) review all aspects of the athletics programs of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Military Academy, the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Naval Academy, and the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Air Force Academy, including—
    - (A) the policies relating to the administration of such programs;
    - (B) the appropriateness of the balance between the emphasis placed by each academy on athletics and the emphasis placed by such academy on academic pursuits; and
    - (C) the extent to which all athletes in all sports are treated equitably under the athletics program of each academy; and
  - (2) determine ways in which the administration of the athletics programs at the academies can serve as models for the administration of athletics programs at civilian institutions of higher education.
- (d) **Administrative Provisions.—**
  - (1) Each [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the board who is not an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) or employee of the Federal Government shall be compensated at a [rate](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) equal to the daily equivalent of the annual [rate](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) of basic [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) prescribed for Executive Schedule Level IV under [section 5315 of title 5](/usc/5/5315.md), for each day (including travel time) during which such [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) is engaged in the performance of the duties of the board. [Members](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the board who are [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) or employees of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) shall serve without compensation in addition to that received for their services as [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) or employees of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1).
  - (2) The [members](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the board shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, at [rates](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) authorized for employees of [agencies](/usc/10/4701.md?p=g-1) under subchapter I of [chapter 57](/usc/5/chptIII-sptD-ch57.md) of title 5, while away from their homes or [regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) places of business in the performance of services for the board.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 102–190, div. A, title V, § 513(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1360; amended Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title X, § 1066(a)(2), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 770; Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title X, § 1087(a)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–290.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2000—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–398 substituted “section 5315” for “section 5376”.

1999—Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 106–65 substituted “Executive Schedule Level IV under section 5376 of title 5” for “grade GS–18 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5”.