Sec. 1056. Comprehensive assessment of Marine Corps Force Design 2030
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall enter into a contract with a Federally Funded Research and Development Center to conduct an independent review, assessment, and analysis of the Marine Corps modernization initiatives. The required report shall be submitted to the congressional defense committees in written report form not later than one year after entering into the contract. The report required under subsection
(a)shall include the following elements: An assessment of changes in the National Defense Strategy, Defense Planning Guidance, the Joint Warfighting Concept, and other strategic documents and concepts that informed Force Design modernization requirements. An assessment of how the Marine Corps, consistent with authorized end strength, can be structured, organized, trained, equipped, and postured to meet the challenges of future competition, crisis, and conflict to include discussion of multiple structural options as relevant and the tradeoffs between different options. An assessment of the ability of the defense innovation base and defense industrial base to develop and produce the technologies required to implement the Marine Corps’ published Force Design modernization plan 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 Marine Corps modernization. An assessment of whether the Marine Corps is in compliance with the statutory organization and functions prescribed in section 8063 of title 10, United States Code. An assessment of the current retention and recruiting environment and the ability of the Marine Corps to sustain manpower requirements necessary for operational requirements levied by title 10, in light of the published Force Design plan. The extent to which the modernization initiatives within the Marine Corps are nested within applicable joint warfighting concepts. An assessment of whether the Marine Corps’ modernization 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, based on current and planned end strength and structure. The extent to which the Marine Corps’ published plan for modernized capabilities can be integrated across the Joint Force, to include warfighting concepts at the combatant command level. The extent to which the Marine Corps’ modernization efforts currently meet the requirements of combatant commanders’ current plans and global force management operations, to include a description of what mechanisms exist to ensure geographic combatant requirements inform Marine Corps modernization efforts. The extent to which modeling and simulation, experimentation, wargaming, and other analytic methods support the changes incorporated into the Marine Corps’ modernization initiatives, to include underlying assumptions and outcomes of such analyses. An inventory of extant or planned investments as part of the Marine Corps’ modernization efforts, disaggregated by the following capability areas and including actual or projected dates of Initial Operational Capability and Full Operational Capability: Command and Control. Information. Intelligence. Fires. Movement and Maneuver. Protection. Sustainment. 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 Marine Corps’ ability to meet the requirements of Global Force Management process and the operational plans. An assessment of how observations regarding the invasion and defense of Ukraine affect the feasibility, advisability, and suitability of the Marine Corps’ published modernization plans. The report required under subsection
(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified appendix to the extent required to ensure that the report is accurate and complete.