Sec. 2854. Study and strategy regarding bulk fuels management in United States Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility
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Congress makes the following findings: The ordering and delivery of bulk fuels is organizationally bifurcated to the detriment of the Department of Defense. Legacy bulk fuel management will not meet the accelerated pace of operations required to support the National Defense Strategy and the emphasis on disaggregated operations. The number of United States flagged tanking vessels continues to decline, which has resulted in an excessive reliance on foreign flagged tanking vessels to be available to support the National Defense Strategy.
A foreign flagged tanking vessel support strategy induces excessive risk to support United States disaggregated operations in a highly contested environment. The inadequacies of the legacy bulk fuel management strategy is particularly acute in the United States Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility. It is the sense of Congress that a single organizational element should be responsible for the bulk fuel management and delivery throughout the United States Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility.
The Secretary of the Navy shall— conduct a study of current and projected bulk fuel management strategies in the United States Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility; and prepare a proposed bulk fuel management strategy that optimally supports bulk fuel management in the United States Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility. The study required by subsection
(c)shall include the following elements: A description of current organizational responsibility of bulk fuel management in the United States Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility from ordering, storage, strategic transportation, and tactical transportation to the last tactical mile. A description of legacy bulk fuel management assets that can be used to support the United States Indo-Pacific Command. Options for congressional consideration to better align organizational responsibility through the entirety of the bulk fuel management system in the United States Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility, as proposed in the bulk fuel management strategy prepared pursuant to paragraph
(2)of such subsection. The Secretary of the Navy shall conduct the study and prepare the bulk fuel management strategy required by subsection
(c)in coordination with subject-matter experts of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, the United States Transportation Command, and the Defense Logistics Agency. Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing the results of the study required by subsection
(c)and the bulk fuel management strategy required by such subsection. None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2021 for the Navy for construction related to additional bulk fuel storage in the United States Indo-Pacific Command Area of Responsibility may be obligated or expended until the report required by subsection
(f)is submitted to the congressional defense committees.