Sec. 1261. Report on New Normal and general mission requirements of United States Africa Command
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New Normal and general mission requirements of United States Africa Command It is the sense of Congress that— the United States Africa Command should have sufficient assigned military forces; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets; crisis response forces; and enablers to support the crisis response forces to meet the New Normal and general mission requirements in the area of responsibility of the United States Africa Command; with the current force posture and structure of the United States Africa Command, the United States is accepting a high level of risk in defending United States posts that are high risk, high threat posts; the United States should posture forces forward and achieve the associated basing and access agreements to support such forces across the Continent of Africa in order to meet the New Normal and general mission requirements in the area of responsibility of the United States Africa Command; the Department of Defense should consider reassigning to the United States Africa Command enabler assets currently assigned to, and shared with, the United States European Command; and the United States Africa Command requires more intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets to meet the New Normal and general mission requirements in its area of responsibility.
Not later than January 15, 2015, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the extent to which the New Normal requirements have changed the force posture and structure required of the United States Africa Command to meet the New Normal and general mission requirements in its area of responsibility. The report required by subsection
(b)shall include the following: A detailed description of the New Normal and general mission requirements in the area of responsibility of the United States Africa Command. A description of any changes required for the United States Africa Command to meet the New Normal and general mission requirements in its area of responsibility, including the gaps or shortfalls in capability, size, posture, agreements, basing, and enabler support of all crisis response forces and associated assets to access and defend posts that are high risk, high threat posts. An assessment of how the United States Africa Command could employ permanently assigned military forces to support all mission requirements of the United States Africa Command. An estimate of the annual intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance requirements of the United States Africa Command and the shortfall, if any, in meeting such requirements in fiscal year 2015. In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional defense committees; and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. The report required by subsection
(b)may include a classified annex.