Sec. 8424. REPORT ON THE ARCTIC CAPABILITIES OF THE ARMED FORCES
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## SEC. 8424 REPORT ON THE ARCTIC CAPABILITIES OF THE ARMED FORCES ###
(a)Report Required Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report setting forth the results of a study on the Arctic capabilities of the Armed Forces. The Secretary shall enter into a contract with an appropriate federally funded research and development center for the conduct of the study. ###
(b)Elements The report required by subsection
(a)shall include the following: ####
(1)A comparison of the capabilities of the United States, the Russian Federation, the People’s Republic of China, and other countries operating in the Arctic, including an assessment of the ability of the navy of each such country to operate in varying sea-ice conditions. ####
(2)A description of commercial and foreign military surface forces currently operating in the Arctic in conditions inaccessible to Navy surface forces. ####
(3)An assessment of the potential security risk posed to Coast Guard forces by military forces of other countries operating in the Arctic in conditions inaccessible to Navy surface or aviation forces in the manner such forces currently operate. ####
(4)A comparison of the domain awareness capabilities of— #####
(A)Coast Guard forces operating alone; and #####
(B)Coast Guard forces operating in tandem with Navy surface and aviation forces and the surface and aviation forces of other allies. ####
(5)A comparison of the defensive capabilities of— #####
(A)Coast Guard forces operating alone; and #####
(B)Coast Guard forces operating in mutual defense with Navy forces, other Armed Forces, and the military forces of allies. ###
(c)Form The report required under subsection
(a)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex. ###
(d)Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— ####
(1)the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and ####
(2)the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.