Sec. 4. Evaluation of Coast Guard Deployable Specialized Forces

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Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on Homeland Security and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report that describes and assesses the state of the Coast Guard’s Deployable Specialized Forces (in this section referred to as the DSF ).

Such report shall include, at a minimum, the following elements: For each of the past three fiscal years, and for each type of DSF, the following: A cost analysis, including training, operating, and travel costs. The number of personnel assigned. The total number of units. The total number of missions conducted. The number of missions requested by each of the following: The Coast Guard. Other components or offices of the Department of Homeland Security. Other Federal departments or agencies.

State agencies. Local agencies. The number of missions fulfilled by the entities specified in subparagraph (E). Mission impact, feasibility, and cost, including future cost savings, of consolidating DSF capabilities, including the following scenarios: Combining DSFs, primarily focused on counterdrug operations, under one centralized command. Distributing counter-terrorism and anti-terrorism capabilities to DSFs in each major United States port. Establishing an enhanced DSF in the highest risk port on the East coast of the United States and the highest risk port on the West coast of the United States that would be capable of supplementing DSF capabilities in other ports on each of such coasts for high threat operations.

In this section, the term Deployable Specialized Force means a unit of the Coast Guard that serves as a quick reaction force designed to be deployed to handle counter-drug, counter-terrorism, and anti-terrorism operations or other maritime threats to the United States.