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Fleet testing and briefing requirement

Division C · Title XXXVI: SHIPs for America

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The Commander of the U.S. Transportation Command must create and conduct a tabletop exercise within 180 days to test control of the Maritime Security Fleet and Tanker Security Fleet during a crisis or war. After the exercise, the Commander must brief Congress on the results. Starting one year after that briefing, the Commander must hold annual tabletop drills and report the outcomes to Congress each time.

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Section Text · Sec. 3602.
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(a) Test

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commander of the United States Transportation Command, in coordination with the Secretary of the Navy and the Maritime Administrator, shall devise a tabletop exercise to test the effective control of the Maritime Security Fleet under chapter 531 of title 46, United States Code, and the Tanker Security Fleet under chapter 534 of such title, in case of crisis or war.

(b) Briefing

After completion of the tabletop exercise under subsection (a), the Commander shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a briefing on the results of such tabletop exercise.

(c) Annual testing

Beginning not later than 1 year after the briefing is submitted under subsection (b), the Commander shall—

(1)

carry out tabletop drills to test effective control of the Maritime Security Fleet under chapter 531 of title 46, United States Code, and the Tanker Security Fleet under chapter 534 of such title; and

(2)

provide to the appropriate committees of Congress a briefing after each such drill on the results of such drill.