Sec. 355. Coordination of planning with respect to stockpiles of basic life sustaining and personnel items and equipment
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The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, in coordination with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and each equivalent acquisition officer of the military departments, shall determine the following: Notwithstanding the requirements of the joint strategic capabilities plan or any other strategic planning document of the Department of Defense, whether existing total force stockpiles of basic life sustaining and personnel items and equipment are sufficient in the event of direct involvement by the United States in a protracted conflict or in more than one large-scale conflict taking place simultaneously in more than one theater.
The likely impact on supply chains of procurement by the Department of basic life sustaining and personnel items and equipment in a situation described in paragraph
(1)and possible alternative sources of production and procurement of such items. Whether current operational plans of the Armed Forces can be executed in two separate theaters simultaneously without drawing on the same stockpiles of basic life sustaining and personnel items and equipment, or whether those plans rely on the same stockpiles being available notwithstanding other operational plans of the Armed Forces. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing the findings and determinations made under subsection (a). The report required under paragraph
(1)shall include an assessment of the availability of stockpiles of— weather and terrain appropriate tires for tactical vehicles; and mobile extreme weather shelters for maintenance of military vehicles. In this section: The term basic life sustaining and personnel items and equipment includes the following: Subsistence items, including food and food-related supplies, including condiments, utensils, paper products, and bottled water. Clothing, individual equipment, tentage, organizational tool kits, hand tools, and administrative and housekeeping supplies and equipment. Personal demand items (non-military sales items). Such other items as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may identify. The term protracted conflict means any armed conflict that extends beyond anticipated timelines set forth or implied in strategic planning documents or operational plans, such that the cumulative effects of hostilities result in the military goals set forth in strategic plans no longer being sufficient to end the conflict.