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 PUBLIC LAW 109–364—OCT. 17, 2006

120 STAT. 2153

(5) An assessment of the Navy’s progress in identifying the amount of funding required to effectively implement the operations and maintenance requirements of the Plan and the effect of providing funding in an amount less than that amount. (6) Any recommendations of the Comptroller General with respect to expanding the Plan to include Expeditionary Strike Groups. (c) POSTPONEMENT OF EXPANSION.—The Secretary of the Navy may not expand the implementation of the Fleet Response Plan beyond the Carrier Strike Groups until the date that is six months after the date on which the Secretary of the Navy submits the report required under subsection (a). SEC. 342. REPORT ON NAVY SURFACE SHIP ROTATIONAL CREW PROGRAMS.

(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than April 1, 2007, 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 ship rotational crew experiment referred to in subsection (c)(1). The report shall include the following: (1) A comparison between the three destroyers participating in that experiment and destroyers not participating in the experiment that takes into consideration each of the following: (A) Cost-effectiveness, including a comparison of travel and per diem expenses, maintenance costs, and other costs. (B) Maintenance procedures, impacts, and deficiencies, including the number and characterization of maintenance deficiencies, the extent of voyage repairs, post-deployment assessments of the material condition of the ships, and the extent to which work levels were maintained. (C) Mission training requirements. (D) Professional development requirements and opportunities. (E) Liberty port of call opportunities. (F) Movement and transportation of crew. (G) Inventory and property accountability. (H) Policies and procedures for assigning billets for rotating crews. (I) Crew retention statistics. (J) Readiness and mission capability data. (2) Results from surveys administered or focus groups held to obtain representative views from commanding officers, officers, and enlisted members on the effects of rotational crew experiments on quality of life, training, professional development, maintenance, mission effectiveness, and other issues. (3) The extent to which standard policies and procedures were developed and used for participating ships. (4) Lessons learned from the experiment. (5) An assessment from the combatant commanders on the crew mission performance when deployed. (6) An assessment from the commander of the Fleet Forces Command on the material condition, maintenance, and crew training of each participating ship.

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