§10208 Annual Mobilization Exercise

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must run at least one big, realistic mobilization exercise every year. The exercise must include both active and reserve units. The Secretary must also keep a plan to regularly test every active and reserve unit based in the United States, how those units work together, and how the forces mobilized in the exercise would be supported, so leaders can judge if resources and plans are enough. Starting in the first fiscal year that begins after this subsection was enacted, and every five years after that, the annual exercise must add the Selective Service System’s processes for preparing to draft people into the armed forces. Those five‑year exercises must review national mobilization strategies and include a full simulation of mobilizing all forces and reserve units with plans for bringing in draftees. The Secretary must report the results to Congress. The report may be submitted in classified form.