Sec. 111. Integrated air and missile defense assessment
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The Secretary of the Army shall conduct a classified assessment of the capability and capacity of current and planned integrated air and missile defense
(IAMD)capabilities to meet combatant commander requirements for major operations against great-power competitors and other global operations in support of the National Defense Strategy. The assessment required by paragraph
(1)shall include the following: Analysis and characterization of current and emerging threats, including the following: Cruise, hypersonic, and ballistic missiles. Unmanned aerial systems. Rockets. Other indirect fire. Specific and meaningfully varied examples within each of subclauses
(I)through (IV). Analysis of current and planned integrated air and missile defense capabilities to counter the threats analyzed and characterized under subparagraph (A), including the following: Projected timelines for development, procurement, and fielding of planned integrated air and missile defense capabilities. Projected capability gaps. Opportunities for acceleration or need for incorporation of interim capabilities to address current and projected gaps. Analysis of current and planned capacity to meet major contingency plan requirements and ongoing global operations of the combatant commands, including the following: Current and planned numbers of integrated air and missile defense systems and formations, including munitions. Capacity gaps in addressing combatant command requirements. Operations tempo stress on integrated air and missile defense formations and personnel. Plans of the Secretary to continue to increase integrated air and missile defense personnel and formations. Assessment of integrated air and missile defense architecture and enabling command and control systems, including the following: A description of the integrated air and missile defense architecture and component counter unmanned aerial systems (C–UAS) sub-architecture. Identification of the enabling command and control
(C2)systems. Inter-connectivity of the enabling command and control systems. Compatibility of the enabling command and control systems with planned Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) architecture. Assessment of proponency within the Army of integrated air and missile defense and counter unmanned aerial systems, including the following: A description of the current proponency structure. Adequacy of the current proponency structure to facilitate Army executive agency integrated air and missile defense and counter unmanned aerial systems functions for the Department of Defense. Benefits of establishing integrated air and missile defense and counter unmanned aerial systems centers of excellence to help focus Army and joint force efforts to achieving a functional integrated air and missile defense capability and capacity to meet requirements of the combatant commands. In carrying out paragraph (2)(A), the Secretary shall avoid broad characterizations that do not sufficiently distinguish between distinctly different threats in the same general class. An example of a broad characterization to be avoided under such paragraph is cruise missiles , since such characterization does not sufficiently distinguish between current cruise missiles and emerging hypersonic cruise missiles, which may require different capabilities to counter them. Not later than December 15, 2020, the Secretary shall provide the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a briefing on the assessment being conducted by the Secretary under paragraph (1). Not later than February 15, 2021, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report on the findings of the Secretary with respect to the assessment conducted under paragraph (1). The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall review the assessment being conducted under subsection (a)(1) for potential gaps in capability and capacity to meet requirements of the National Defense Strategy. Not later than April 15, 2021, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report on the finding of the Vice Chairman with respect to the review conducted under paragraph (1).