An act to amend title 10, United States Code, to revise and standardize the provisions of law relating to appointment, promotion, separation, and mandatory retirement of regular commissioned officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, to establish the permanent grade of commodore admiral in the Navy, to equalize the treatment of female commissioned officers with that of male commissioned officers, and for other purposes.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Defense Officer Personnel Management Act - Title I: Amendments to Subtitle A of Title 10, United States Code - General Military Law - Eliminates the provisions defining "dependent" with respect to female members of the armed services. Defines: (1) "active-duty list" as a single list for each of the military services containing the names of all active-duty officers of that service (other than those excluded by this Act); (2) "competitive category" as a group of officers designated to compete among themselves for promotion; (3) "due-course officer" as an active-duty officer who has neither failed to be promoted when considered for promotion, nor been promoted from below the promotion zone; has served on active duty continuously; has not received constructive credit service; and in the case of a Navy or a Marine officer, has not lost numbers or precedence; (4) "promotion zone" as an eligibility category consisting of all the most senior officers on an active-duty list in the same grade and competitive category who are eligible for promotion to the next higher grade, and who have neither failed to be selected, nor removed from a promotion list, for such grade; and (5) "officers above a…