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and control of the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief
of Staff, is responsible for preparation, justification, and
execution of the personnel, operation and maintenance,
and construction budgets for the Air Force Reserve. As
such, the Chief of Air Force Reserve is the director and
functional manager of appropriations made for the Air
Force Reserve in those areas.
‘‘(e) FULL TIME SUPPORT PROGRAM.—(1) The Chief
of Air Force Reserve manages, with respect to the Air
Force Reserve, the personnel program of the Department
of Defense known as the Full Time Support Program.
‘‘(f) ANNUAL REPORT.—(1) The Chief of Air Force
Reserve shall submit to the Secretary of Defense, through
the Secretary of the Air Force, an annual report on the
state of the Air Force Reserve and the ability of the Air
Force Reserve to meet its missions. The report shall be
prepared in conjunction with the Chief of Staff of the Air
Force and may be submitted in classified and unclassified
versions.
‘‘(2) The Secretary of Defense shall transmit the an-
nual report of the Chief of Air Force Reserve under para-
graph (1) to Congress, together with such comments on
the report as the Secretary considers appropriate. The re-
port shall be transmitted at the same time each year that
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the annual report of the Secretary under section 113 of
this title is submitted to Congress.’’.
(e) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 641(1)(B)
of such title is amended by inserting ‘‘5143, 5144,’’ after
‘‘3038,’’.
SEC. 1213. REVIEW OF ACTIVE DUTY AND RESERVE GEN-
ERAL AND FLAG OFFICER AUTHORIZATIONS.
(a) REPORT
TO CONGRESS.—Not later than six
months after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report
containing any recommendations of the Secretary (to-
gether with the rationale of the Secretary for the rec-
ommendations) concerning the following:
(1) Revision of the limitations on general and
flag officer grade authorizations and distribution in
grade prescribed by sections 525, 526, and 12004 of
title 10, United States Code.
(2) Statutory designation of the positions and
grades of any additional general and flag officers in
the commands and offices created by sections 1211
and 1212.
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The Secretary
shall include in the report under subsection (a) the Sec-
retary’s views on whether current limitations referred to
in subsection (a)—
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(1) permit the Secretaries of the military de-
partments, in view of increased requirements for as-
signment of general and flag officers in positions ex-
ternal to their organic services, to meet adequately
both internal and external requirements for general
and flag officers;
(2) adequately recognize the significantly in-
creased role of the reserve components in both serv-
ice-specific and joint operations; and
(3) permit the Secretaries of the military de-
partments and reserve components to assign general
and flag officers to active and reserve component po-
sitions with grades commensurate with the scope of
duties and responsibilities of the position.
(c) EXEMPTIONS FROM ACTIVE-DUTY CEILINGS.—
(1) The Secretary shall include in the report under sub-
section (a) the Secretary’s recommendations regarding the
merits of exempting from any active-duty ceiling (estab-
lished by law or administrative action) the following offi-
cers:
(A) Reserve general and flag officers assigned
to positions specified in the organizations created by
this title.
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(B) Reserve general and flag officers serving on
active duty, but who are excluded from the active-
duty list.
(2) If the Secretary determines under paragraph (1)
that any Reserve general or flag officers should be exempt
from active duty limits, the Secretary shall include in the
report under subsection (a) the Secretary’s recommenda-
tions for—
(A) the effective management of those Reserve
general and flag officers; and
(B) revision of active duty ceilings so as to pre-
vent an increase in the numbers of active general
and flag officers authorizations due solely to the re-
moval of Reserve general and flag officers from
under the active duty authorizations.
(3) If the Secretary determines under paragraph (1)
that active and reserve general officers on active duty
should continue to be managed under a common ceiling,
the Secretary shall make recommendations for the appro-
priate apportionment of numbers for general and flag offi-
cers among active and reserve officers.
(d) RESERVE FORCES POLICY BOARD PARTICIPA-
TION.—The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the Re-
serve Forces Policy Board participates in the internal De-
partment of Defense process for development of the rec-
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ommendations of the Secretary contained in the report
under subsection (a). If the Board submits to the Sec-
retary any comments or recommendations for inclusion in
the report, the Secretary shall transmit them to Congress,
with the report, in the same form as that in which they
were submitted to the Secretary.
(e) GAO REVIEW.—The Comptroller General of the
United States shall assess the criteria used by the Sec-
retary of Defense to develop recommendations for pur-
poses of the report under this section and shall submit
to Congress, not later than 30 days after the date on
which the report of the Secretary under this section is sub-
mitted, a report setting forth the Comptroller General’s
conclusions concerning the adequacy and completeness of
the recommendations made by the Secretary in the report.
SEC. 1214. GUARD AND RESERVE TECHNICIANS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 10216 of title 10, United
States Code, as amended by section 413, is amended—
(1) by redesignating subsections (a), (b), and
(c) as subsections (b), (c), and (d), respectively;
(2) by inserting after the section heading the
following new subsection (a):
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Military technicians are Federal
civilian employees hired under title 5 and title 32 who are
required to maintain dual-status as drilling reserve compo-
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nent members as a condition of their Federal civilian em-
ployment. Such employees shall be authorized and ac-
counted for as a separate category of dual-status civilian
employees, exempt as specified in subsection (b)(3) from
any general or regulatory requirement for adjustments in
Department of Defense civilian personnel.’’; and
(3) in paragraph (3) of subsection (b), as redes-
ignated by paragraph (1), by striking out ‘‘in high-
priority units and organizations specified in para-
graph (1)’’.
Subtitle B—Reserve Component
Accessibility
SEC. 1231. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON MEASURES TO IM-
PROVE 
NATIONAL 
GUARD 
AND 
RESERVE
ABILITY TO RESPOND TO EMERGENCIES.
(a) REPORT.—Not later than six months after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
shall submit to Congress a report regarding reserve com-
ponent responsiveness to both domestic emergencies and
national contingency operations. The report shall set forth
the measures taken, underway, and projected to be taken
to improve the timeliness, adequacy, and effectiveness of
reserve component responses to such emergencies and op-
erations.
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(b) MATTERS RELATED TO RESPONSIVENESS TO DO-
MESTIC EMERGENCIES.—The report shall address the fol-
lowing:
(1) The need to expand the time period set by
section 12301(b) of title 10, United States Code,
which permits the involuntary recall at any time to
active duty of units and individuals for up to 15
days per year.
(2) The recommendations of the 1995 report of
the RAND Corporation entitled ‘‘Assessing the State
and Federal Missions of the National Guard’’, as
follows:
(A) That Federal law be clarified and
amended to authorize Presidential use of the
Federal reserves of all military services for do-
mestic emergencies and disasters without any
time constraint.
(B) That the Secretary of Defense develop
and support establishment of an appropriate
national level compact for interstate sharing of
resources, including the domestic capabilities of
the national guards of the States, during emer-
gencies and disasters.