Sec. 1050. Conditions on Army National Guard and active Army force structure changes pending Comptroller General report
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During fiscal year 2015, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army may not carry out any of the following actions: Reduce the end strength for active duty personnel of the Army for a fiscal year below 490,000. Reduce the end strength for Selected Reserve personnel of the Army National Guard of the United States for a fiscal year below 350,000. Transfer AH-64 Attack helicopters from the Army National Guard to the regular Army. Not later than March 1, 2015, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing a review of the analyses of any counter-proposals submitted to the Army by the Chief of the National Guard and conducted by the Army and the Department of Defense Cost Assessment Program Evaluation Office as the basis for the decision to determine the future force structure of the Army, including the appropriate mix between regular Army, the National Guard, and the Army Reserve.
The report required by subsection
(b)shall include, at a minimum, the following: An assessment of the force structure model used to conduct the analysis and determination of whether proper assumptions were made based on the current budget program, the National Military Strategy, and Combatant Commanders’ operational requirements for the Army. An assessment of the cost analysis models used to make the determinations regarding which Army aviation platforms should be retained and in which component, including the projected costs and savings associated with the determinations. A comparison of the operational readiness rates for the past five years for the equipment platforms that comprise aviation brigades of the regular Army and the Army National Guard. An assessment of the manning levels required for combat aviation brigades in the regular Army and the Army National Guard, including whether the resources to fund full-time support of military technicians was properly applied to fill the authorized positions in States with aviation brigades. Nothing in subsection
(a)shall be construed— to limit the provision of qualification training for military occupational specialties related to Army Aviation; or to prevent the Secretary of the Army from continuing flight training and advanced qualification courses for selected National Guard AH-64 personnel in accordance with current force structure and Army readiness requirements. Congress is concerned with the planned reductions and realignments the Army has proposed with respect to aviation realignment of combat aviation aircraft in the Army National Guard as well as greater reductions in active component end strength and brigade combat teams.