Sec. 1022. Availability of funds for retirement or inactivation of Ticonderoga class cruisers or dock landing ships
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Except as otherwise provided in this section, none of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense by this Act or the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 ( Public Law 113–66 ) may be obligated or expended to retire, prepare to retire, inactivate, or place in storage a cruiser or dock landing ship. Funds in the Ship, Modernization, Operations, and Sustainment Fund (SMOSF) may be used only for 11 Ticonderoga-class cruisers (CG 63 through CG 73) and 3 dock landing ships (LSD 41, LSD 42, and LSD 46).
The Secretary of the Navy may use such funds only to man, operate, equip, sustain, and modernize such vessels. The Secretary of the Navy shall retain 22 Ticonderoga-class cruisers
(CGs)and 12 Whidbey Island/Harpers Ferry-class dock landing ships
(LSDs)until the end of their expected service lives, as follows: The naval combat forces of the Navy shall include not less than 11 operational cruisers (CG 52 through CG 62) and 11 operational dock landing ships (all members of the LSD 41 class, except LSD 41, LSD, 42 and LSD 46). For purposes of this paragraph, a cruiser or dock landing ship is operational if such vessel is available for worldwide deployment other than during routine or scheduled maintenance or repair. The Secretary may conduct phased modernization of the cruisers and dock landing ships for which funds in the Ship, Modernization, Operations, and Sustainment Fund are authorized to be available pursuant to subsection (a)(2). During a phased modernization period, the Secretary may reduce manning on such vessels to the minimal level necessary to ensure the safety and security of such vessels and to retain critical skills. Cruisers covered by paragraph
(1)may only be decommissioned when replaced by one of the cruisers for which the Navy has conducted a phased modernization using funds in the Ship, Modernization, Operations, and Sustainment Fund as described in paragraph (2). After being reintroduced into the operational fleet, the cruisers modernized as described in paragraph
(2)may be decommissioned individually upon reaching the end of their expected service life, excluding time spent in a phased modernization status under paragraph (2). After being reintroduced into the operational fleet, the dock landing ships modernized as described in paragraph
(2)may be decommissioned upon reaching the end of their expected service life, excluded time spent in a phased modernization status under paragraph (2). During the period of phased modernization under subsection (b)(2) of the vessels specified in subsection (a)(2), the Secretary of the Navy shall— continue to maintain the vessels in a manner that will ensure the ability of the vessels to reenter the operational fleet; conduct planning activities to ensure scheduled and deferred maintenance and modernization work items are identified and included in maintenance availability work packages; conduct hull, mechanical, and electrical (HM&E) and combat system modernization necessary to achieve a service life of 40 years; in the case of the cruisers, schedule completion of maintenance and modernization, including required testing and crew training, to replace on a one-for-one basis, active cruisers that will be decommissioned upon reaching the end of their expected service life; ensure adequate funds are available to execute phased modernization activities for all the vessels. During the period of phased modernization under subsection (b)(2) of the vessels specified in subsection (a)(2), the Secretary may not— permit removal or cannibalization of equipment or systems to support operational vessels, other than— rotatable pool equipment; and equipment or systems necessary to support urgent operational requirements (but only with the approval of the Secretary of Defense); or make any irreversible modifications that will prohibit the vessel from reentering the operational fleet. The Secretary of the Navy may enter into a so-called economic order quantity contracts with private shipyards for ship maintenance and modernization, and with private industry for equipment procurement for the phased modernization under subsection (b)(2) of the vessels specified in subsection (a)(2). At the same time as the submittal to Congress of the budget of the President under section 1105 of title 31, United States, for each fiscal year in which activities under the phased modernization of vessels will be carried out under this section, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the congressional defense committees a written report on the status of the phased modernization of vessels under this section. Each report under this subsection shall include the following: The status of phased modernization efforts, including availability schedules, equipment procurement schedules, and by-fiscal year funding requirements. The readiness, and operational and manning status of each vessel to be undergoing phased modernization under this section during the fiscal year covered by such report. The current material condition assessment for each such vessel. A list of rotatable pool equipment that is identified across the whole class of cruisers to support operations on a continuing basis. A list of equipment, other than rotatable pool equipment and components incidental to performing maintenance, removed from each such vessel, including a justification for the removal, the disposition of the equipment, and plan for restoration of the equipment. A detailed plan for obligations and expenditures by vessel for the fiscal year beginning in the year of such report, and projections of obligations by vessel by fiscal year for the remaining time a vessel is in the phased modernization program. A statement of the funding required during the fiscal year beginning in the year of such report to ensure the Ship, Modernization, Operations, and Sustainment Fund account has adequate resources to execute the plan under subparagraph
(F)in the execution fiscal year and the following fiscal year. Not later than 30 days before executing any material deviation from a plan under paragraph (2)(F) for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall notify the congressional defense committees in writing of such deviation from the plan. Section 1023 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (127 Stat. 846) is repealed.
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Sec. 1022
Availability of funds for retirement or inactivation of Ticonderoga class cruisers or dock landing ships
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