§10504 Chief of National Guard Bureau: Annual Reports

Summary

The Chief of the National Guard Bureau must send a yearly report to the Secretary of Defense, routed through the Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force, about the current condition of the National Guard and its ability to do its missions. The report is prepared with the Army and Air Force secretaries and can be submitted in both classified and unclassified forms. The Secretary of Defense must forward that report to Congress with any comments the Secretary wants to add, and must send it at the same time each year the Secretary’s annual report under section 113(c) is sent to Congress. By January 31 of each of the calendar years 2018, 2019, and 2020, the Chief, working with the Secretary of Defense, must also send a report that says what personnel, training, and equipment the non‑Federal National Guard needs to help civilian authorities with natural and man‑made disasters and to do prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery during the “covered period” (the fiscal year that starts after the report). In making those reports, the Chief must consult state governors and other civilian leaders, gather and check state information, list needs separately for each emergency support function and each FEMA region, look at civilian capability gaps states reported to DHS, consider threat and risk studies from DoD, DHS, and the states, and review state budgets. Those reports must go to the congressional defense committees, the House and Senate homeland security committees, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of 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.