§116 Annual operations and maintenance report

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must send Congress a written report by February 15 each year about operations and maintenance for the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force for the next fiscal year. The report must recommend numbers for things like aircraft flying hours, Navy ship steaming hours, field training days for combat battalions of the Army and Marine Corps, how many Navy ships over 3,000 tons in each ship class should get major repairs, and how many airframe reworks, aircraft engine reworks, and vehicle overhauls are needed. The report must also explain and justify the funding levels shown in the President’s Budget for those items. The Secretary may attach this report as an exhibit to the yearly defense authorization request under section 113a. Definitions (one line each): combat arms battalions — combat unit types such as armor, infantry variants, rangers, artillery, combat engineers, and cavalry squadrons. major repair work — ship overhauls or changes that will cost more than $10,000,000.