Sec. 1026. Report on expanding naval vessel maintenance
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Not later than May 1, 2020, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on allowing maintenance to be performed on naval vessels at shipyards other than shipyards in the vessels’ homeports. The report required under subsection
(a)shall include the following: An assessment of the ability of homeport shipyards to meet the current naval vessel maintenance demands. An assessment of the ability of current homeport shipyards to meet the naval vessel maintenance demands of a 355-ship Navy. An assessment of the ability of non-homeport firms to augment repair work at homeport shipyards, which shall include— the capability and proficiency of shipyards in the Great Lakes, Gulf Coast, East Coast, West Coast, and Alaska regions to perform technical repair work on naval vessels at locations other than their homeports; the required improvements to the capability of shipyards in the Great Lakes, Gulf Coast, East Coast, West Coast, and Alaska regions to enable performance of technical repair work on naval vessels at locations other than their homeports; an identification of naval vessel types (such as noncombatant vessels or vessels that only need limited periods of time in shipyards) best suited for repair work performed by shipyards in locations other than their homeports; and the potential benefits to fleet readiness of expanding shipyard repair work to include shipyards not located at naval vessel homeports. An assessment of the benefits to the commercial shipyard industrial base of expanding repair work for naval vessels to shipyards not eligible for short-term work in accordance with section 8669a(c) of title 10, United States Code. In this section, the term homeport shipyards means shipyards associated with firms capable of being awarded short-term work at the homeport of a naval vessel in accordance with section 8669a(c) of title 10, United States Code.