10 U.S.C. § 117: Readiness reporting system

the National Security Strategy prescribed by the President in the most recent annual national security strategy report under section 108 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3043 ); the defense planning guidance provided by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to section 113(g) of this title ; and the National Military Strategy prescribed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. that the readiness reporting system and associated policies are applied uniformly throughout the Department of Defense, including between and among the joint staff and each of the armed forces; that is the single authoritative readiness reporting system for the Department, and that there shall be no military service specific systems; that readiness assessments are accomplished at an organizational level at, or below, the level at which forces are employed; that the reporting system include resources information, force posture, and mission centric capability assessments, as well as predicted changes to these attributes; that information in the readiness reporting system is continually updated, with (A) any change in the overall readiness status of a unit, or element of a unit, that is required to be reported as part of the readiness reporting system being reported within 24 hours of the event necessitating the change in readiness status, and (B) any change in the overall readiness status of an element of the training establishment or an element of defense infrastructure that is required to be reported as part of the readiness reporting system being reported within 72 hours of the event necessitating the change in readiness status; and that sufficient resources are provided to establish and maintain the system so as to allow reporting of changes in readiness status as required by this section. Measure the readiness of units (both as elements of their respective armed force and as elements of joint forces) to conduct their designed and assigned missions. Measure the capability of training establishments to provide trained and ready forces for designed and assigned missions. Measure the capability of defense installations and facilities and other elements of Department of Defense infrastructure, both in the United States and abroad, to provide appropriate support to forces in the conduct of their designed and assigned missions. Measure critical warfighting deficiencies in unit capability. Measure critical warfighting deficiencies in training establishments and defense infrastructure. Measure the extent to which units of the armed forces remove serviceable parts, supplies, or equipment from one vehicle, vessel, or aircraft in order to render a different vehicle, vessel, or aircraft operational. The Secretary shall prescribe regulations to carry out this section. In those regulations, the Secretary shall prescribe the established information technology system for Department of Defense reporting, specifically authorize exceptions to a single-system architecture, and identify the organizations, units, and entities that are subject to reporting in the readiness reporting system, what organization resources are subject to such reporting, and the elements of the training establishment and of defense infrastructure that are subject to such reporting. The Secretary of Defense shall establish metrics for the assessment of the readiness of the Cyber Mission Forces of the Department of Defense. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [ Dec. 20, 2019 ] and quarterly thereafter until completion of the establishment of the metrics under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall provide a briefing to the congressional defense committees [Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives] on such metrics, including progress as required pursuant to subsection (c). using the metrics established pursuant to subsection (b)(1); and in a manner that is consistent with sections 117 and 482 of such title.” None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act [see Tables for classification] or otherwise made available for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2019 for research, development, test, and evaluation or procurement, and available to develop service-specific Defense Readiness Reporting Systems (referred to in this section as ‘DRRS’) may be made available for such purpose except for required maintenance and in order to facilitate the transition to DRRS-Strategic (referred to in this section as ‘DRRS-S’). Not later than February 1, 2019 , the Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness shall submit to the congressional defense committees [Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives] a resource and funding plan to include a schedule with relevant milestones on the elimination of service-specific DRRS and the migration of the military services and other organizations to DRRS-S. The military services shall complete the transition to DRRS-S not later than October 1, 2020 . The Secretary of Defense shall notify the congressional defense committees upon the complete transition of the services. The Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness, the Under Secretary for Acquisition and Sustainment, and the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military departments and other organizations with relevant technical expertise, shall establish a working group including individuals with expertise in application or software development, data science, testing, and development and assessment of performance metrics to assess the current process for collecting, analyzing, and communicating readiness data, and develop a strategy for implementing any recommended changes to improve and establish readiness metrics using the current DRRS-Strategic platform. identification of modern tools, methods, and approaches to readiness to more effectively and efficiently collect, analyze, and make decision based on readiness data; and consideration of cost and schedule. Not later than February 1, 2020 , the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees the assessment conducted pursuant to paragraph (1). To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary of Defense shall meet defense readiness reporting requirements consistent with the recommendations of the working group established under subsection (d)(1).”