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## Reports

**2024**
                        - Reserve Component Support For Homeland Defense Report

**2023**
                        - RFPB Secretary of Defense Letter - Quick Wins
                        - Recommendation to Secretary of Defense to issue a contemporary and comprehensive DoD Total Force Policy

**2022**
                        - Chairman's personal letter to Secretary of Defense regarding Duty Status Reform, Chairman's Reserve Positions, and Fully Burdened Life Cycle Costs

**2020**
                        - A Report for the Transition to the Next Administration by the Reserve Forces Policy Board on Improving the Total Force using the National Guard and Reserves
                        - Reserve Forces Policy Board Recommendation for Reinstatement of Reserve Component General and Flag Officer Statutory Rank (29 May 2020)
                        - Report of Reserve Forces Policy Board Recommendations for Recalculation of Reserve Component Joint Qualifications Requirement
                        - Reserve Forces Policy Board (RFPB) Proposed incorporation of the Underlying Reserve Force Structure Principles at the Inception of the Space Force
                        - Reserve Forces Policy Board (RFPB) Proposed Reinstatement of Reserve Component General and Flag Officer Exemptions.

**2019**
                        - Requiring the Use of Fully Burdened and Life Cycle Personnel Costs for all Components in Total Force Analysis and for Budgetary Purposes
                        - Reserve Forces Policy Board (RFPB) Proposed Implementation of Specific National Guard and Reserve Budget Line Item Numbers (BLIN) in the President's Budget Request.
                        - IDA Report - Challenges to the Execution of Army National Guard (ARNG) and Marine Corps Reserve (USMCR) Mission-Essential Task Training
                        - ​ Reserve Forces Policy Board (RFPB) proposed definition for the term "Operational Reserve" in relation to Reserve Components
                        - Recommendation for Reinstatement of Reserve Component General and Flag Officer Statutory Rank

**2018**
                        - IDA Report - Sharing Burden and Risk in another Theater: An Operational Assessment of Reserve Component Forces in Afghanistan 
                        - Report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board on Support for ongoing Duty Status Reform efforts led by the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness

**2017**
                        - Report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board on Support for H.R. 2099 and S. 844 - GI Bill Fairness Act of 2017
                        - Report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board on Support for H.R. 1317 and S. 492 - Service Member Retirement Improvement Act
                        - Report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board on Support for H.R. 1384 and S. 667 - Reserve Component Benefits Parity Act and changes to Department of Defense policy to address certain benefits not provided under 12304b involuntary mobilization authority.

**2016**
                        - Annual Report
                        - IDA Report
                        - Transmittal of Institute for Defense Analyses Report for the Reserve Forces Policy Board titled "Sharing the Burden and Risk: An Operational Assessment of the Reserve Components in Operation Iraqi Freedom"
                        - Improving the Total Force using the National Guard and Reserves
                        - Report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board on proposed changes outlined in Sections 501, 502, and 925 of S.2943 (Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act)
                        - Report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board on the Selection and Assignment Process for the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Reserve Forces Policy Board (RFPB)
                        - Report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board Offering Support to Recommendations from the National Commission on the Future of tl1e Army
                        - Report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board on a Proposed Definition of the term "Operational Reserve" in relation to Reserve Components 

**2015**
                        - Annual Report
                        - Report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board on the Need for Improvements in the Individual Ready Reserve 
                        - RFPB Chairman's Input on the Department of Defense Force of the Future Initiative
                        - Report of the Reserve Forces Policy Board on Support to ULB RA-006/OLC-104 Veterans Educational Assistance Act Of 2008 (Post 9/11 GI Bill Change Proposal) for inclusion into Fiscal Year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act

**2014**
                        - Annual Report
                        - Department of Defense Cyber Approach: Use of the National Guard and Reserve in the Cyber Mission Force
                        - Reserve Component Use, Balance, Cost and Savings: A Response to Questions from the Secretary of Defense  
                        - Opposition to Proposed Legislation on Off-ramping  

**2013**
                        - Annual Report  
                        - Reserve Component Duty Status Reform
                        - Inclusion of the National Guard Bureau in DoD Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)
                        - Survivor Benefit Plan Disparity Issue
                        - Strategic Choices and the Reserve Components
                        - Eliminating Major Gaps in DoD Data on the Fully-Burdened and Life-Cycle Cost of Military Personnel: Cost Elements should be Mandated by Policy
                        - The Operational Reserve and Inclusion of the Reserve Components in Key DoD Processes

**2012**
                        - Annual Report  
                        - New Policies and Clearer Funding Flows for Reserve Component Operations in the Homeland
                        - Avoiding Past Drawdown Mistakes to Enhance Future Total Force Capabilities
                        - Gaps In DoD Data On The Cost Of RC Forces

**2011**
                        - Annual Report  

**2010**
                        - Annual Report  

**2009**
                        - No Reports Issued

**2008**
                        - Annual Report  

**2007**
                        - Annual Report  

**2006**
                        - Annual Report  

**2005**
                        - Annual Report  

**2004**
                        - Annual Report  

**2003**
                        - Annual Report  

**2002**
                        - Annual Report  

## Quick Links

                        -  RFPB Former Chairmen   
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                        -  RFPB Charter   
                        -  RFPB Membership Balance Plan   
                        -  Staff Directory   

## Important Documents

                        -  Joint Pub 1-02 - DoD Dictionary of Terms   
                        -  Reserve Component Legislative Overview   
                        -  Governing Statute   

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