PUBLIC LAW 99-145—NOV. 8, 1985 competitive strategies, cost containment innovations, or other techniques from the private sector, (4) Enhancing medical readiness, including— (A) improving joint medical readiness planning within the continental United States and overseas; (B) standardizing combat medical equipment; (C) standardizing the methodology used to determine the number of personnel, force structure, and specialty mix necessary to meet wartime medical manpower requirements; and (D) redirecting graduate medical education programs to provide training in critical combat specialties. (c) VIEWS OF OTHER D O D COMPONENTS.—The Secretary of each military department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall each carry out an independent study of the matters described in subsection (a). The report submitted under subsection (a) shall include the results of each such study. The study carried out by the Joint Chiefs of Staff shall include comments and contributions from the commanders of each of the unified and specified commands. (d) DEADLINE FOR REPORT.—The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted not later than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 1208. ANNUAL REPORT ON GUARD AND RESERVE EQUIPMENT
Section 138(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(3) The Secretary shall include in each report under paragraph (2) the following: "(A) A listing of each major item of equipment required by the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of each reserve component indicating— "(i) the full war-time requirement of that component for that item, shown in accordance with deployment schedules and requirements over successive 30-day periods following mobilization; "(ii) the number of each such item in the inventory of the component; "(iii) a separate listing of each such item in the inventory that is a deployable item and is not the most desired item; "(iv) the number of each such item projected to be in the inventory at the end of the third succeeding fiscal year; and "(v) the number of nondeployable items in the inventory as a substitute for a required major item of equipment. "(B) A narrative explanation of the plan of the Secretary concerned to provide equipment needed to fill the war-time requirement for each major item of equipment to all units of the Selected Reserve, including an explanation of the plan to equip units of the Selected Reserve that are short major items of equipment at the outset of war. "(C) For each item of major equipment reported under paragraph (2)(C) in a report for one of the three previous years under this subsection as an item expected to be procured for the Selected Reserve or to be transferred to the Selected Reserve, the quantity of such equipment actually procured for or transferred to the Selected Reserve.".
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