---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2113b"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2113b"
heading: "Academic Health System"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2113b"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 104 — Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences"
---

# §2113b. Academic Health System

- (a) **In General.—** The Secretary of Defense may establish an Academic Health System to integrate the health care, health professions education, and health research activities of the military health system, including under this chapter, in the [National Capital Region](#c).
- (b) **Leadership.—**
  - (1) The Secretary may appoint employees of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense to leadership positions in the Academic Health System established under [subsection (a)](#a).
  - (2) Such positions may include responsibilities for management of the health care, health professions education, and health research activities described in [subsection (a)](#a) and are in addition to similar leadership positions for [members](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4).
- (c) **National Capital Region Defined.—** In this section, the term “National Capital Region” means the area, or portion thereof, as determined by the Secretary, in the vicinity of the District of Columbia.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title VII, § 734(a), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1461.)