The Defence Policy and Planning Committee (DPPC) is the senior advisory body to the North Atlantic Council on defence matters concerning all member countries and it also has the lead on defence aspects of partnership.It is a key committee bringing together defence counsellors from all national delegations. It deals with a broad range of issues such as transformation, defence capabilities, agency reform and common-funded acquisition, and in Reinforced format (DPPC(R)) it manages the NATO Defence Planning Process. Chairmanship is flexible depending on the topics being discussed, but the DPPC’s permanent chair is the Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning; in Reinforced format it is chaired by the Deputy Secretary General of NATO. The deputy chair is the Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning. This committee has been called the DPPC since the June 2010 committee reform. It replaced both the Executive Working Group and the Defence Review Committee. It has no subordinate committees under its remit.