Sec. 1225. Report and budget details regarding Operation Spartan Shield
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At the same time as the submission of the budget of the President (as submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code) for fiscal year 2022 and each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary of Defense shall submit a report with accompanying budgetary details regarding Operation Spartan Shield. At a minimum, the report required by subsection
(a)shall include— for the first report, a history of the operation and its objectives; and for each subsequent report, a description of the operation and its objectives during the prior fiscal year; a list and description of activities and exercises carried out under the operation during the prior fiscal year; a description of the purpose and goals of such activities and exercises and an assessment of the degree to which stated goals were achieved during the prior fiscal year; a description of criteria used to judge the effectiveness of joint exercises and other efforts to build partner capacity under the operation during the prior fiscal year; a description of the forces deployed under the operation, their deployment locations, and activities undertaken; the information required under subsection (c); and any other matters the Secretary determines appropriate. At a minimum, the budgetary details accompanying the report required by subsection (a)— shall include— a description of expenditures related to the operation for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year of the budget covered by the report; with respect to the amount requested for the operation in the budget covered by the report— any significant change in methodology used to determine the budgetary details included in the report and the categories used to organize such details; and a narrative justification for any significant changes in the amount requested as compared to the amount requested and the amount expended for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year of the budget covered by the report; and with respect to the estimated direct and indirect expenditures for the operation in the budget covered by the report— detailed information on the estimated direct expenditures and indirect expenditures broken down by category (including with respect to operations, force protection, in-theater support, equipment reset and readiness, military construction, mobilization, incremental and total deployment costs, and exercises) and any additional accounts and categories the Secretary determines to be relevant; and a description of the methodology and metrics used by the Secretary to define the contribution of indirect costs to the operation or an explanation of pro-rated amounts based on the level of support provided to the operation; and may include a breakdown of expenditures and the amount requested for the operation in the budget covered by the report by line item, including with respect to procurement accounts, military personnel accounts, operation and maintenance accounts, research, development, test, and evaluation accounts, and military construction accounts. The report and accompanying budget details required by subsection
(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. The requirements of this section shall terminate on the date on which Operation Spartan Shield (or a successor operation) concludes. In this section: The term direct expenditures means, with respect to amounts expended or estimated to be expended for Operation Spartan Shield, amounts used directly for supporting deterrence activities and missions. The term indirect expenditures means, with respect to amounts expended or estimated to be expended for Operation Spartan Shield, amounts used for programs or activities that the Secretary of Defense determines enable the Armed Forces to carry out the operation.