§10543 National Guard and reserve component equipment procurement and military construction funding: inclusion in future-years defense program

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must put into every multi-year defense plan sent to Congress the year-by-year estimates and funding requests for buying equipment and for military construction for each reserve component. The plan’s annexes must list each equipment item to be bought and each construction project to be done, with the project locations, at the same level of detail used for active forces. If the total requested for a year for reserve equipment plus construction is less than 90 percent of the “average authorized amount” (the average of the totals authorized in the two prior years), the Secretary must send Congress a report showing the additional equipment and projects that would be funded to reach that average. That report is due within 90 days after the President sends the budget to Congress.