ARMY TRAINING STRATEGY FOR BRIGADE-BASED COMBAT TEAMS AND FUNCTIONAL SUPPORTING BRIGADES.

SEC. 353. ARMY TRAINING STRATEGY FOR BRIGADE-BASED COMBAT TEAMS AND FUNCTIONAL SUPPORTING BRIGADES.(a) Training Strategy.—(1) Strategy required.—The Secretary of the Army shall develop and implement a strategy for the training of brigade-based combat teams and functional supporting brigades in order to ensure the readiness of such teams and brigades.(2) Elements.—The training strategy under paragraph (1) shall include the following:(A) A statement of the purpose of training for brigade-based combat teams and functional supporting brigades.(B) Performance goals for both active-component and reserve-component brigade-based combat teams and functional supporting brigades, including goals for live, virtual, and constructive training.(C) Metrics to quantify training performance against the performance goals specified under subparagraph (B).(D) A process to report the status of collective training to Army leadership for monitoring the training performance of brigade-based combat teams and functional supporting brigades.(E) A model to quantify, and to forecast, operation and maintenance funding required for each fiscal year to attain the performance goals specified under subparagraph (B).(3) Timing of implementation.—The Secretary of the Army shall develop and implement the training strategy under paragraph (1) as soon as practicable.(b) Report.—(1) Report required.—Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the training strategy developed under subsection (a).(2) Elements.—The report under paragraph (1) shall include the following:(A) A discussion of the training strategy developed under subsection (a), including a description of the performance goals and metrics developed under that subsection.(B) A discussion and description of the training ranges and other essential elements required to support the training strategy.(C) A list of the funding requirements, shown by fiscal year and set forth in a format consistent with the future-years defense program to accompany the budget of the President under section 221 of title 10, United States Code, necessary to meet the requirements of the training ranges 119 STAT. 3204 and other essential elements described under subparagraph (B).(D) A schedule for the implementation of the training strategy.(c) Comptroller General Review of Implementation.—(1) In general.—The Comptroller General shall monitor the implementation of the training strategy developed under subsection (a).(2) Report.—Not later than 180 days after the date on which the Secretary of the Army submits the report under subsection (b), the Comptroller General shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing the assessment of the Comptroller General of the current progress of the Army in implementing the training strategy.