10 U.S.C. § 233a
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- (a)Not later than 10 days after the date on which the budget of the President for a fiscal year is submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on any major weapon systems proposed to be divested, re-prioritized, or retired in such budget.
- (b)Each report under subsection (a) shall include the following:
- (1)Identification of each major weapon system the Secretary of Defense proposes to divest, re-prioritize, or retire in the period of five fiscal years following the date of the report.
- (2)Budget line-item details related to each major weapon system identified under paragraph (1).
- (3)For each proposed divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement, an explanation of—
- (A)the timeline for the divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement, including any factors that may affect such timelines positively or negatively;
- (B)any cost savings associated with the divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement;
- (C)the rationale for the divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement, including a qualitative description of the risk associated with the divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement based on the most recent National Defense Strategy (as of the date of the report);
- (D)any critical dependencies with other program efforts that might affect the timeline for such divestment, reprioritization, or retirement;
- (E)the expected disposition of the weapon system after divestment, re-prioritization or retirement; and
- (F)identification of the system or systems that are expected to satisfy the military requirements that were fulfilled by the weapon system once the divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement of that weapon system is completed.
- (c)The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the report required under subsection (a) is deconflicted with the report required under section 222e of this title.
- (d)In this section, the term “major weapon system” has the meaning given that term in section 101(a) of this title.