§10504 Chief of National Guard Bureau: Annual Reports

Summary

The Chief of the National Guard Bureau must send an annual report to the Secretary of Defense, through the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force, about the National Guard’s condition and its ability to meet missions. The report must be prepared with the Army and Air Force secretaries and can be submitted in both classified and unclassified forms. The Secretary of Defense must then send that report to Congress with any comments, at the same time each year that the Secretary’s annual report under section 113(c) goes to Congress. By January 31 of 2018, 2019, and 2020, the Chief, working with the Secretary of Defense, must also send a special report that lists the personnel, training, and equipment the non‑Federalized National Guard needs to support civilian authorities and to do prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery for natural and man‑made disasters during the “covered period.” The Chief must consult state governors and other civilian leaders, gather and check information from each State, show needs separately for each emergency support function and each FEMA region, review civilian capability gaps identified by States to DHS, consider threat and risk assessments from DoD, DHS, and the States, and look at State budgets to support those needs. That special report must be sent to Congress’s defense and homeland security committees, the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security, the Council of Governors, the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force, and the commanders of U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Indo‑Pacific Command, and U.S. Cyber Command. The “covered period” means the fiscal year that begins after the report is submitted.