Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 120.djvu/2183

 120 STAT. 2152

PUBLIC LAW 109–364—OCT. 17, 2006

Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (Public Law 107–314) after September 30, 2007, until the report required under subsection (b) is submitted.

Subtitle E—Reports SEC. 341. REPORT ON NAVY FLEET RESPONSE PLAN.

(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than December 1, 2006, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report on the program of the Navy referred to as the Fleet Response Plan. The report shall include the following: (1) A directive that provides guidance for the conduct of the Plan and standardizes terms and definitions. (2) Performance measures for evaluation of the Plan. (3) Costs and resources needed to achieve objectives of the Plan, including any incremental effect on the Navy Operation and Maintenance budget. (4) Operational tests, exercises, war games, experiments, and deployments used to test performance. (5) A collection and synthesis of lessons learned from the implementation of the Plan as of the date on which the report is submitted. (6) Evaluation of each of the following with respect to each ship participating in the Plan: (A) Combat readiness, including training requirements. (B) Ship material condition, including trending data for mission degrading casualty reports rated as C3 or C4. (C) Professional development training requirements accomplished during a deployment and at home station. (D) Crew retention statistics. (7) Any proposed changes to the Surface Force Training Manual. (8) The amount of funding required to effectively implement the operation and maintenance requirements of the Plan by ship class. (9) Any recommendations of the Secretary of the Navy with respect to expanding the Plan to include Expeditionary Strike Groups. (b) COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT.—Not later than 120 days after the date on which the Secretary of the Navy submits the report required under subsection (a), the Comptroller General shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing a review of the report required under that subsection. The Comptroller General’s report shall include the following: (1) An examination of the management approaches of the Navy in implementing the Fleet Response Plan. (2) An assessment of the adequacy of Navy directives and guidance with respect to maintenance and training requirements and procedures. (3) An analysis and assessment of the adequacy of the Navy’s evaluation criteria for the Plan. (4) An evaluation of Navy data on aircraft carriers, destroyers, and cruisers that participated in the Plan with respect to readiness, response time, and availability for routine or unforeseen deployments.

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