REPORT ON RAPID ASSESSMENT AND INITIAL DETECTION TEAMS.

SEC. 1036. REPORT ON RAPID ASSESSMENT AND INITIAL DETECTION TEAMS. (a) Report.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the Department’s plans for establishing and deploying Rapid Assessment and Initial Detection (RAID) teams for responses to incidents involving a weapon of mass destruction. The report shall include the following: (1) A description of the capabilities of a RAID team and a comparison of those capabilities to the capabilities of other Federal, State, and local WMD responders. (2) An assessment of the manner in which a RAID team complements the mission, functions, and capabilities of other Federal, State, and local WMD responders. (3) The Department’s plan for conducting realistic exercises involving RAID teams, including exercises with other Federal, State, and local WMD responders. (4) A description of the command and control relationships between the RAID teams and Federal, State, and local WMD responders.113 STAT. 755 (5) An assessment of the degree to which States have integrated, or are planning to integrate, RAID teams into other-than-weapon-of-mass-destruction missions of State or local WMD responders. (6) A specific description and analysis of the procedures that have been established or agreed to by States for the use in one State of a RAID team that is based in another State. (7) An identification of those States where the deployment of out-of-State RAID teams is not governed by existing interstate compacts. (8) An assessment of the Department’s progress in developing an appropriate national level compact for interstate sharing of resources that would facilitate consistent and effective procedures for the use of out-of-State RAID teams. (9) An assessment of the measures that will be taken to recruit, train, maintain the proficiency of, and retain members of the RAID teams, to include those measures to provide for their career progression. (b) Definitions.—In this section: (1) The term “Rapid Assessment and Initial Detection team” or “RAID team” refers to a military unit comprised of Active Guard and Reserve personnel organized, trained, and equipped to conduct domestic missions in the United States in response to the use of, or threatened use of, a weapon of mass destruction. (2) The term “WMD responder” means an organization responsible for responding to an incident involving a weapon of mass destruction. (3) The term “weapon of mass destruction” has the meaning given that term in section 1403(1) of the Defense Against Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 1996 (50 U.S.C. 2302(1)).