Sec. 1264. Independent assessment of sufficiency of resources available to United States Southern Command and United States Africa Command
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The Secretary of Defense shall seek to enter into a contract with a not-for-profit entity or federally funded research and development center independent of the Department of Defense to conduct an assessment of the sufficiency of resources available to United States Southern Command and United States Africa Command to carry out their respective missions. The assessment described in subsection
(a)shall include— an assessment of the sufficiency of the resources available to United States Southern Command and United States Africa Command, including personnel, human resources, and financial resources, in promoting United States national security interests; an assessment of the level of regional expertise and experience of the leadership of each such combatant command and their subordinate organizations, service components, and task forces, to include personnel from agencies other than the Department of Defense; a description of the strategic objectives and end states in the geographic region for which each such combatant command has responsibility and a comparison of the importance and priority of the resources available to each such combatant command to perform its mission; and an assessment of the ability of each such combatant command to carry out such strategic objectives and end states, including an assessment of resources available, forces available, and other interagency resources available to the combatant command. The not-for-profit entity or federally funded research and development center with which the Secretary enters into the contract under subsection
(a)shall have full and direct access to all information related to resources available to United States Southern Command and United States Africa Command. Not later than 240 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the not-for-profit entity or federally funded research and development center with which the Secretary of Defense enters into the contract under subsection
(a)shall submit to the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development a report that contains the assessment required by subsection (a). Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees— a copy of such report without change; and any comments, changes, recommendations, or other information of the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development relating to the assessment required by subsection
(a)and contained in such report. 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.