Sec. 343. Quarterly briefings on operational status of amphibious warship fleet of Department of the Navy

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Not later than October 1, 2023, and quarterly thereafter until September 30, 2024, the Secretary of the Navy shall provide to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a briefing on the operational status of the amphibious warship fleet of the Department of the Navy. Each briefing under subsection

(a)shall include, with respect to each amphibious warship, the following: Average quarterly Operational Availability (AO). Number of days underway as follows: Training for the purpose of supporting Mission Essential Tasks (in this section referred to as MET ) of the Marine Corps, including unit level well-deck or flight-deck operations training and Amphibious Ready Group and Marine Expeditionary Unit integrated training. Deployed, which shall not include scheduled or unscheduled in port maintenance. Expected completion date for in-work and scheduled and unscheduled maintenance. An update on any delays in completion of scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and casualty reports impacting the following: Scheduled unit level well-deck and flight-deck operations training of the Marine Corps. MET certifications of the Marine Corps, including mobility, communications, amphibious well-deck operations, aviation operations, and warfare training. Composition and deployment dates of scheduled and deployed Amphibious Ready Groups and Marine Expeditionary Units. In this section: The term amphibious warship means a ship that is classified as an amphibious assault ship (general purpose) (LHA), an amphibious assault ship (multi-purpose) (LHD), an amphibious transport dock (LPD), or a dock landing ship

(LSD)that is included in the Battle Force Inventory in accordance with instruction 5030.8D of the Secretary of the Navy, or successor instruction. The terms Amphibious Ready Group and Marine Expeditionary Unit means a group or unit, as the case may be, that consists of a minimum of— three amphibious assault ships (general purpose)

(LHA)or amphibious assault ships (multi-purpose) (LHD); and one amphibious transport dock

(LPD)Flight I.