GEOGRAPHIC COMBATANT COMMAND RISK ASSESSMENT OF AIR FORCE AIRBORNE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE MODERNIZATION PLAN.

SEC. 1066. GEOGRAPHIC COMBATANT COMMAND RISK ASSESSMENT OF AIR FORCE AIRBORNE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE MODERNIZATION PLAN. (a) In General.—Not later than March 31, 2022, each commander of a geographic combatant command shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report containing an assessment of the level of operational risk to that command posed by the plan of the Air Force to modernize and restructure airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities to meet near-, mid-, and far-term contingency and steady-state operational requirements against adversaries in support of the objectives of the current national defense strategy. (b) Plan Assessed.—The plan of the Air Force referred to in subsection (a) is the plan required under section 142 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116-283). (c) Assessment of Risk.—In assessing levels of operational risk for purposes of subsection (a), a commander shall use the military risk matrix of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as described in CJCS Instruction 3401.01E. (d) Geographic Combatant Command.—In this section, the term “geographic combatant command” means each of the following: (1) United States European Command. (2) United States Indo-Pacific Command. (3) United States Africa Command. (4) United States Southern Command. (5) United States Northern Command. (6) United States Central Command.