Sec. 1069. Annual briefings on implementation of Force Design 2030
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Not later than March 31, 2024, and annually thereafter through March 31, 2030, the Commandant of the Marine Corps shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on the programmatic choices made to implement Force Design 2030, including new developmental and fielded capabilities and capabilities and capacity divested to accelerate the implementation of Force Design 2030. Each briefing provided under subsection
(a)shall include— an assessment of changes in the national defense strategy under section 113(g) of title 10, United States Code, defense planning guidance, the Joint Warfighting Concept (and associated Concept Required Capabilities), and other planning processes that informed Force Design 2030; an inventory and assessment of exercises and experiments related to Force Design 2030 beginning in fiscal year 2020, including— an identification of any capabilities that were involved in such exercises and experiments; and the extent to which such exercises and experiments validated or militated against proposed capability investments; an inventory of divestments of capability or capacity, whether force structure or equipment, starting in fiscal year 2020, including— a timeline of the progress of each divestment; the type of force structure or equipment divested or reduced; the percentage of force structure of equipment divested or reduced, including any equipment entered into inventory management or other form of storage; the rationale and context behind such divestment; and an identification of whether such divestment affects the ability of the Marine Corps to meet the requirements of the Global Force Management process and the operational plans, including— an explanation of how the Marine Corps plans to mitigate the loss of such capability or capacity if the divestment affects the ability of the Marine Corps to meet the requirements of the Global Force Management process and the operational plans, including through new investments, additional joint planning and training, or other methods; and an assessment of the actual and projected recruitment and retention percentages of the Marine Corps, starting in fiscal year 2020; an inventory of extant or planned investments as a part of Force Design 2030, broken down by capability areas including— integrated air and missile defense; littoral mobility and maneuver; sea denial; recon and counter-recon forces; the amphibious warfare ship and maritime mobility requirements the Marine Corps submitted to the Department of the Navy in support of the Marine Corps organization and concepts under Force Design 2030 and its statutory requirements, including an explicit statement of— the planning assumptions about the readiness of amphibious warfare ships and maritime mobility platforms in developing the requirements; and whether the Navy’s 30-year shipbuilding plan of and budget for the fiscal year covered by the briefing meet the amphibious ship requirements of the Navy; for each capability included in the inventory under paragraph (4)— the name; the purpose and context; an identification of the capability being replaced, if applicable; the date of initial operational capability; the date of full operational capability; the number of deliveries of units by year; and the approved acquisition objective or similar inventory objective; an assessment of how the capability investments identified in the inventory under paragraph
(4)contribute to joint force efficacy in new ways, including through support of other military departments; an assessment of the ability of the Marine Corps to generate required force elements for the immediate ready force and the contingency ready force over the two fiscal years preceding the year during which the briefing is provided and the expected ability to generate such force elements through fiscal year 2030; an assessment of Marine Corps force structure and readiness of marine expeditionary units compared to availability of amphibious ships comprising an amphibious ready group over the two fiscal years preceding the year during which the briefing is provided and the expected availability of such ships through fiscal year 2030; an assessment by the Marine Corps of its compliance with the statutory organization prescribed in section 8063 of title 10, United States Code, specifically The Marine Corps, within the Department of the Navy, shall be so organized as to include not less than three combat divisions and three air wings, and such other land combat, aviation, and other services as may be organic therein. ; and an assessment by the Marine Corps of its compliance with the statutory functions prescribed in section 8063 of title 10, United States Code, specifically The Marine Corps shall be organized, trained, and equipped to provide fleet marine forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure or defense of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be essential to the prosecution of a naval campaign. .