Sec. 903. Requirement for assessment of options to modify the number of combatant commands
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The Secretary of Defense shall conduct an assessment of the feasibility, advisability, and recommendations, if any, for reducing or increasing the number or consolidating the common staff functions and infrastructure of the combatant commands by the end of fiscal year 2020. The assessment required by subsection
(a)shall include the following: An analysis of alternative versions of the Unified Command Plan for distribution and assignment of the following: Command responsibility and authority. Span of control. Headquarters structure and organization. Staff functions, capabilities, and capacities. A detailed analysis of each alternative that reduces or increases the number or consolidates the common staff functions of the combatant commands in terms of assigned personnel, resources, and infrastructure, set forth separately by fiscal year, by the end of fiscal year 2020. A description of the changes to the Unified Command Plan necessary to implement such reductions, increases, or consolidations. An assessment of the feasibility, advisability, risks, and estimated costs associated with such reductions, increases, or consolidations. An assessment of efficiencies, potential savings from such efficiencies, and operational risk, if any, that could be realized by— combining or otherwise sharing common staff or support functions between two or more combatant command headquarters; establishing a new organization to manage the combined staff or support functions of two or more combatant command headquarters; or any other efficiency initiatives or arrangements that the Secretary considers appropriate. In conducting the assessment required by subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may— use and incorporate previous plans or studies of the Department of Defense; and consult with and incorporate views of defense experts from outside the Department. Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing the findings and recommendations of the assessment required by subsection (a). The report shall include the views of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.