National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010/Division A/Title III/Subtitle E

SUBTITLE E — REPORTS

Sec. 341. Annual report on procurement of military working dogs.

Section 358 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110-417; 122 Stat. 4427; 10 U.S.C. 2302 note) is amended—

(1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and

(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection (c):

"(c) Annual Report.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010, and annually thereafter for each of the following five years, the Secretary, acting through the Executive Agent, shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the procurement of military working dogs for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year during which the report is submitted. Such a report may be combined with the report required under section 2583f of title 10, United States Code, for the same fiscal year as the fiscal year covered by the report under this subsection. Each report under this subsection shall include the following for the fiscal year covered by the report:

"(1) The number of military working dogs procured, by source, by each military department or Defense Agency.

"(2) The cost of procuring military working dogs incurred by each military department or Defense Agency.

"(3) An explanation for any significant difference in the cost of procuring military working dogs from different sources.".

Sec. 342. Plan for managing vegetative encroachment on training ranges.

Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report that includes the following:

(1) An assessment of the extent to which vegetation and overgrowth limits the use of military lands available for training of the Armed Forces in the United States and overseas.

(2) An identification of the particular installations and training areas at which vegetation and overgrowth negatively impact the use of training space

(3) A plan to address training constraints caused by vegetation and overgrowth.

Sec. 343. Comptroller General report on the sustainment strategy for the AV-8B Harrier aircraft.

(a) Report Required.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the sustainment strategy for the AV-8B Harrier aircraft.

(b) Matters Covered.—The report under subsection (a) shall include, at a minimum, each of the following:

(1) An assessment of the AV-8B Integrated Maintenance Concept, including the acquisition strategy developed to conduct planned maintenance interval events.

(2) An evaluation of the process and criteria established to determine the assignment of non-core workload.

(3) An examination of the role of the single process owner in distribution of non-core workload, standardization of workload processes, facilitation of public-private partnering, implementation of lessons learned, and execution of contracting authority.

(4) An evaluation of the execution of responsibilities by the single process owner to reduce planned maintenance interval turn-around time, to reduce cost, to improve material availability, and to ensure necessary logistics and engineering functions are in place to meet objective goals.

Sec. 344. Study on Army modularity.

(a) Study.—

(1) In general.—Not later than 30 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 for the conduct of a study on the current and planned modularity structures of the Army to determine each of the following:

(A) The operational capability of the Army to execute the core mission of the Army to contribute land power to joint operations.

(B) The ability to manage the flexibility and versatility of Army forces across the range of military operations.

(C) The tactical, operational, and strategic risk associated with the heavy, medium, and light modular combat brigades and functional support and sustainment brigades.

(D) The required and planned end strength for the Army.

(2) Factors to consider.—The study required under subsection (a) shall take into consideration the following factors:

(A) The historical experience of the Army with separate brigade structures.

(B) The original Army analysis or other relevant analyses, including explicit or implicit assumptions, upon which the modular brigade combat team, functional support and sustainment brigades, and higher headquarters' designs were based.

(C) Subsequent analysis that confirmed or modified the original designs.

(D) Lessons learned from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, including an identification and analysis of how modular brigades or formations were task organized and employed that may have differed from the original modular concept and how that confirmed or modified the original designs.

(E) Improvements the Army has made or is implementing in brigade and headquarters designs.

(F) The deployability, employability, and sustainability of modular formations compared to the corresponding pre-modular designs of such formations.

(3) Access to information.—The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Army shall ensure that the Federally Funded Research and Development Center conducting the study required under subsection (a) has access to all necessary data, records, analysis, personnel, and other resources necessary to complete the study.

(b) Report.—

(1) In general.—Not later than December 31, 2010, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing—

(A) the results of the study conducted under subsection (a), together with the comments of the Secretary of Defense on the findings contained in the study; and

(B) the separate and independent comments of the Secretary of the Army on the findings contained in the study.

(2) Classified annex.—The report shall be in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.