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PUBLIC LAW 109–364—OCT. 17, 2006

(2) by redesignating paragraphs (9) through (15) as paragraphs (10), (11), (12), (13), (14), (15), and (17), respectively; (3) by inserting after paragraph (8) the following new paragraph (9): ‘‘(9) The specific capabilities, including the general number and type of specific military platforms, needed to achieve the strategic and warfighting objectives identified in the review.’’; and (4) by inserting after paragraph (15), as redesignated by paragraph (2), the following new paragraph: ‘‘(16) The homeland defense and support to civil authority missions of the active and reserve components, including the organization and capabilities required for the active and reserve components to discharge each such mission.’’. (e) CJCS REVIEW.—Subsection (e)(1) of such section is amended by inserting before the period at the end the following: ‘‘and a description of the capabilities needed to address such risk’’. (f) INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENT.—Such section is further amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: ‘‘(f) INDEPENDENT PANEL ASSESSMENT.—(1) Not later than six months before the date on which the report on a Quadrennial Defense Review is to be submitted under subsection (d), the Secretary of Defense shall establish a panel to conduct an assessment of the quadrennial defense review. ‘‘(2) Not later than three months after the date on which the report on a quadrennial defense review is submitted under subsection (d) to the congressional committees named in that subsection, the panel appointed under paragraph (1) shall submit to those committees an assessment of the review, including the recommendations of the review, the stated and implied assumptions incorporated in the review, and the vulnerabilities of the strategy and force structure underlying the review. The assessment of the panel shall include analyses of the trends, asymmetries, and concepts of operations that characterize the military balance with potential adversaries, focusing on the strategic approaches of possible opposing forces.’’. SEC. 1032. QUARTERLY REPORTS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF 2006 QUADRENNIAL DEFENSE REVIEW REPORT.

(a) REPORTS REQUIRED.—Not later than 30 days after the end of each fiscal-year quarter, the Secretary of Defense 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 implementation of recommendations described in the Department of Defense 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review Report. (b) CONTENTS OF REPORTS.—Each quarterly report under subsection (a) shall, at a minimum— (1) describe the processes and procedures established by the Secretary of Defense to examine the various recommendations referred to in subsection (a); (2) discuss implementation plans and strategies for each area highlighted by the Quadrennial Defense Review Report; (3) provide relevant information about the status of such implementation; and (4) indicate changes in the Secretary’s assessment of the defense strategies or capabilities required since the publication of the 2006 Quadrennial Defense Review Report.

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