Sec. 931. Comprehensive assessment of force design modernization efforts of the Marine Corps
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Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall seek to enter into a contract with a federally funded research and development center to conduct an independent review, assessment, and analysis of the modernization initiatives Marine Corps. The report required under subsection
(a)shall include the following elements: An assessment of changes in the National Defense Strategy, Defense Planning Guidance, Joint Warfighting Concept, and other strategic documents and concepts that informed the force design modernization requirements of the Marine Corps. An assessment of how the Marine Corps should be structured, organized, trained, equipped, and postured to meet the challenges of future competition, crisis, and conflict. An assessment of the ability of the defense innovation base and defense industrial base to develop and produce the technologies required to implement the force design modernization of the Marine Corps on a timeline and at production rates sufficient to sustain military operations. An assessment of forward infrastructure, and the extent to which installations are operationalized to deter, compete, and prevail during conflict in support of the modernization of the Marine Corps. An assessment of the current retention and recruiting environment and the ability of the Marine Corps to sustain manpower requirements necessary for operational requirements under title 10, United States Code. The extent to which the modernization initiatives within the Marine Corps are nested within applicable joint warfighting concepts. An assessment of whether the modernization of the Marine Corps is consistent with the strategy of integrated deterrence. An assessment of the ability of the Marine Corps to generate required force elements for the Immediate Ready Force and the Contingency Ready Force. The extent to which the modernized capabilities of the Marine Corps can be integrated across the Joint Force, including warfighting concepts at the combatant command level. The extent to which the modernization efforts of the Marine Corps meet the requirements of current and future plans of combatant commanders and global force management operations. The extent to which modeling and simulation, experimentation, wargaming, and other analytic methods have supported the changes to the modernization initiatives of the Marine Corps. An inventory of existing or planned investments associated with the modernization efforts of the Marine Corps, disaggregated by the following capability areas: Command and Control. Information. Intelligence. Fires. Movement and Maneuver. Protection. Sustainment. An assessment of how observations regarding the invasion and defense of Ukraine affect the feasibility, advisability, and suitability of the modernization of the Marine Corps. Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the results of the assessment required under subsection (a). The report required under paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex to the extent required to ensure that the report is accurate and complete. Effective on the date of the submittal of the report under subsection (c)(1), the requirement to submit a briefing pursuant to section 1023 of the Joint Explanatory Statement accompanying the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 ( Public Law 117–263 ), shall cease to have force or effect.
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Sec. 931
Comprehensive assessment of force design modernization efforts of the Marine Corps
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