Sec. 1051. Annual report and briefing 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 submit to the congressional defense committees a report detailing the programmatic choices made to implement Force Design 2030, including both new developmental and fielded capabilities, as well as capabilities and capacity divested to accelerate implementation of Force Design 2030. Not later than September 30, 2024, and annually thereafter through September 30, 2030, the Commandant of the Marine Corps shall provide a briefing on the elements described under subsection (c). The report required under subsection
(a)and briefing required under subsection
(b)shall include the following elements: An assessment of changes in the National Defense Strategy, Defense Planning Guidance, Joint Warfighting Concept (and associated Concept Required Capabilities), and other planning processes that informed Force Design 2030. An inventory and assessment of Force Design-related exercises and experimentation beginning in fiscal year 2020, including which capabilities were involved 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 or equipment divested or reduced, including any equipment entered into inventory management or another form of storage; the rationale and context behind such divestment; an identification of whether such divestment affects the Marine Corps’ ability to meet the requirements of 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 Marine Corps’ ability 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 Marine Corps’ recruitment and retention actual and projected percentages starting in fiscal year 2020. An inventory of extant or planned investments as a part of Force Design 2030, disaggregated by integrated air and missile defense, littoral mobility and maneuver, sea denial, and reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance forces, including— capability name; capability purpose and context; capability being replaced (or not applicable); date of initial operational capability; date of full operational capability; deliveries of units by year; and approved acquisition objective or similar inventory objective. A description of 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 a detailed statement of the planning assumptions about readiness of amphibious warfare ships and maritime mobility platforms that were used in developing the requirements. An assessment of how the capability investments described in paragraph
(4)contribute to joint force efficacy in new ways, including through support of other military services. 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 previous two fiscal years and the expected ability to generate forces for the next two fiscal years. An assessment of Marine Corps force structure and the readiness of Marine Expeditionary Units compared to availability of amphibious ships comprising an Amphibious Ready Group over the previous two fiscal years and the expected availability for the next two fiscal years. An assessment by the Marine Corps of its compliance with the statutory organization prescribed in section 8063 of title 10, United States Code, that [t]he 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 . An assessment by the Marine Corps of its compliance with the statutory functions prescribed in section 8063 of title 10, United States Code, that [t]he 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 .