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 12 2 STA T .4 414 PUBLIC LA W 11 0– 41 7—O CT. 14 , 200 8(A)perfo r manc e -b a s e dl o gi s t ics ( B )s u ppl y c h ain management; ( C ) condition-based maintenance; ( D ) reliability-based maintenance; ( E ) consolidation and centrali z ation , including — (i) regionalization; (ii) t w o-le v el maintenance; and (iii) forward-based depot capacity; ( F ) public-private partnerships; ( G ) private-sector depot capability and capacity; and ( H ) the impact of proprietary technical documentation . ( 3 ) T he ade q uate visibility of the maintenance wor k load of each military department in reports submitted to Congress, including— (A) whether the depot budget lines in current budget displays accurately reflect depot level workloads; (B) the accuracy of core and 50/ 50 calculations; (C) the usefulness of current reporting requirements to the oversight function of senior military and congres- sional leaders; and (D) whether current budgetary guidelines provide suffi- cient financial fle x ibility during the year of execution to permit the heads of the military departments to make best-value decisions between maintenance activities. ( 4 ) S uch other information as determined relevant by the entity carrying out the study. (d) A VAIL A B ILI TYOFIN FO RM ATION.—The Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of each of the military departments shall make available to the entity carrying out the study under subsection (a) all necessary and relevant information to allow the entity to conduct the study in a quantitative and analytical manner. (e) REP ORT S TO COMMITTEES ON ARME D SERVI C ES.— ( 1 ) INTERIM REPORT.—The contract that the Secretary enters into under subsection (a) shall provide that not later than one year after the commencement of the study conducted under this section, the chief executive officer of the entity that carries out the study pursuant to the contract shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives an interim report on the study. ( 2 ) FINAL REPORT.—Such contract shall provide that not later than 22 months after the date on which the Secretary of Defense enters into the contract under subsection (a), the chief executive officer of the entity that carries out the study pursuant to the contract shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a final report on the study. The report shall include each of the following

(A) A description of the depot maintenance environ- ment, as of the date of the conclusion of the study, and the anticipated future environment, together with the quantitative data used in conducting the assessment of such environments under the study. (B) Recommendations with respect to what would be required to maintain, in a post-reset environment, an effi- cient and enduring Department of Defense depot capability necessary for national defense.

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