124 STAT. 4360 PUBLIC LAW 111–383—JAN. 7, 2011 SEC. 1056. REQUIRED REPORTS CONCERNING BOMBER MODERNIZA- TION, SUSTAINMENT, AND RECAPITALIZATION EFFORTS IN SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE STRATEGY. (a) AIR FORCE REPORT.— (1) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 360 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air Force shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report that includes— (A) a discussion of the cost, schedule, and performance of all planned efforts to modernize and keep viable the existing B–1, B–2, and B–52 bomber fleets and a discussion of the forecasted service-life and all sustainment challenges that the Secretary of the Air Force may confront in keeping those platforms viable until the anticipated retirement of such aircraft; (B) a discussion, presented in a comparison and con- trast type format, of the scope of the 2007 Next-Generation Long Range Strike Analysis of Alternatives guidance and subsequent Analysis of Alternatives report tasked by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics in the September 11, 2006, Acquisition Deci- sion Memorandum, as compared to the scope and directed guidance of the year 2010 Long Range Strike Study effort currently being conducted by the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Office; and (C) a discussion of the preliminary costs, any develop- ment, testing, fielding and operational employment chal- lenges, capability gaps, limitations, and shortfalls of the Secretary of Defense’s plan to field a long-range, pene- trating, survivable, persistent and enduring ‘‘family of sys- tems’’ as compared to the preliminary costs, any develop- ment, testing, fielding, and operational employment of a singular platform that encompasses all the required afore- mentioned characteristics. (2) PREPARATION OF REPORT.—The report under paragraph (1) shall be prepared by a federally funded research and development center selected by the Secretary of the Air Force and submitted to the Secretary for submittal by the Secretary in accordance with that paragraph. (b) COST ANALYSIS AND PROGRAM EVALUATION REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Cost Analysis and Program Evaluation of the Office of the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report that includes— (1) the assumptions and estimated life-cycle costs of the Department’s long-range, penetrating, survivable, persistent, and enduring ‘‘family of systems’’ platforms; and (2) the assumptions and estimated life-cycle costs of the Next Generation Platform program, as planned, prior to the cancellation of the program on April 6, 2009.
