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(2) live, virtual, and constructive training capabilities, and 
the ability to digitally connect them and the associated battle 
command structure at the tactical and operational levels; 
(3) an extensive deployment history in Operation Enduring 
Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom; 
(4) a location in the Northeastern United States; 
(5) the capacity or potential capacity to accommodate a 
target training audience range of 500 to 4,000 additional per-
sonnel; and 
(6) the capability to accommodate the training of current 
and future joint forces. 
SEC. 
1053. 
COMPTROLLER 
GENERAL 
REPORT 
ON 
PREVIOUSLY 
REQUESTED REPORTS. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than March 1, 2011, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Com-
mittee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on 
Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report evaluating 
the sufficiency, adequacy, and conclusions of the following reports: 
(1) The report on Air Force fighter force shortfalls, as 
required by the report of the House of Representatives num-
bered 111–166, which accompanied the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111–84). 
(2) The report on procurement of 4.5 generation fighters, 
as required by section 131 of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111–84; 123 Stat. 
2218). 
(3) The report on combat air forces restructuring, as 
required by the report of the House of Representatives num-
bered 111–288, which accompanied the conference report for 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 
(Public Law 111–84). 
(b) MATTERS COVERED
BY REPORT.—The report required by 
subsection (a) shall examine the potential costs and benefits of 
each of the following: 
(1) The service life extension program costs to sustain 
the legacy fighter fleet to meet inventory requirements with 
an emphasis on the service life extension program compared 
to other options such as procurement of 4.5 generation fighters. 
(2) The Falcon Structural Augmentation Roadmap of F– 
16s, with emphasis on the cost-benefit of such effort and the 
effect of such efforts on the service life of the airframes. 
(3) Any additional programs designed to extend the service 
life of legacy fighter aircraft. 
(c) PROHIBITION.—No fighter aircraft may be retired from the 
Air Force or the Air National Guard inventory in fiscal year 2011 
until the date that is 90 days after the date on which the Committee 
on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed 
Services of the House of Representatives receive the report required 
under subsection (a). 
SEC. 1054. BIENNIAL REPORT ON NUCLEAR TRIAD. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than March 1 of each even-numbered 
year, beginning March 1, 2012, the Secretary of Defense, in con-
sultation with the Administrator for Nuclear Security, shall submit 
to the congressional defense committees a report on the nuclear 
triad.
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(b) MATTERS INCLUDED.—The report under subsection (a) shall 
include the following: 
(1) A detailed discussion of the modernization and 
sustainment plans for each component of the nuclear triad 
over the 10-year period beginning on the date of the report. 
(2) The funding required for each platform of the nuclear 
triad with respect to operation and maintenance, moderniza-
tion, and replacement. 
(3) Any industrial capacities that the Secretary considers 
vital to ensure the viability of the nuclear triad. 
(c) NUCLEAR TRIAD DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘nuclear 
triad’’ means the nuclear deterrent capabilities of the United States 
composed of ballistic missile submarines, land-based missiles, and 
strategic bombers. 
SEC. 1055. COMPTROLLER GENERAL STUDY ON COMMON ALIGNMENT 
OF WORLD REGIONS IN DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES 
WITH INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES. 
(a) STUDY REQUIRED.—The Comptroller General of the United 
States shall conduct a study to assess the need for and implications 
of a common alignment of world regions in the internal organization 
of departments and agencies of the Federal Government with inter-
national responsibilities. 
(b) DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES.—The following departments 
and agencies, at a minimum, shall be included in the study: 
(1) The Department of State. 
(2) The Department of the Treasury. 
(3) The Department of Defense. 
(4) The Department of Justice. 
(5) The Department of Commerce. 
(6) The Department of Homeland Security. 
(7) The United States Agency for International Develop-
ment. 
(8) The agencies comprising the intelligence community. 
(9) Such other departments, agencies, and Federal 
organizations with significant international responsibilities as 
the Comptroller General considers appropriate. 
(c) COOPERATION AND ACCESS.—The heads of the departments 
and agencies included in the study shall provide full cooperation 
with, and access to appropriate information on organizational struc-
tures to, the Comptroller General for the purposes of conducting 
the study. 
(d) MATTERS COVERED.—The study required under subsection 
(a) shall, at a minimum, assess— 
(1) problems and inefficiencies resulting from lack of a 
common alignment, including impediments to interagency 
collaboration; 
(2) obstacles to implementing a common alignment; 
(3) advantages and disadvantages of a common alignment; 
and 
(4) measures taken to address challenges associated with 
the lack of a common alignment. 
(e) REPORT.—The Comptroller General shall submit to Congress 
a report on the study required under subsection (a) not later than 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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SEC. 1056. REQUIRED REPORTS CONCERNING BOMBER MODERNIZA-
TION, SUSTAINMENT, AND RECAPITALIZATION EFFORTS 
IN SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE STRATEGY. 
(a) AIR FORCE REPORT.— 
(1) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 360 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air 
Force shall submit to the congressional defense committees 
a report that includes— 
(A) a discussion of the cost, schedule, and performance 
of all planned efforts to modernize and keep viable the 
existing B–1, B–2, and B–52 bomber fleets and a discussion 
of the forecasted service-life and all sustainment challenges 
that the Secretary of the Air Force may confront in keeping 
those platforms viable until the anticipated retirement of 
such aircraft; 
(B) a discussion, presented in a comparison and con-
trast type format, of the scope of the 2007 Next-Generation 
Long Range Strike Analysis of Alternatives guidance and 
subsequent Analysis of Alternatives report tasked by the 
Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, 
and Logistics in the September 11, 2006, Acquisition Deci-
sion Memorandum, as compared to the scope and directed 
guidance of the year 2010 Long Range Strike Study effort 
currently being conducted by the Under Secretary of 
Defense for Policy and the Office of the Secretary of 
Defense’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Office; 
and 
(C) a discussion of the preliminary costs, any develop-
ment, testing, fielding and operational employment chal-
lenges, capability gaps, limitations, and shortfalls of the 
Secretary of Defense’s plan to field a long-range, pene-
trating, survivable, persistent and enduring ‘‘family of sys-
tems’’ as compared to the preliminary costs, any develop-
ment, testing, fielding, and operational employment of a 
singular platform that encompasses all the required afore-
mentioned characteristics. 
(2) PREPARATION OF REPORT.—The report under paragraph 
(1) shall be prepared by a federally funded research and 
development center selected by the Secretary of the Air Force 
and submitted to the Secretary for submittal by the Secretary 
in accordance with that paragraph. 
(b) COST ANALYSIS AND PROGRAM EVALUATION REPORT.—Not 
later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Director of the Cost Analysis and Program Evaluation of the 
Office of the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional 
defense committees a report that includes— 
(1) the assumptions and estimated life-cycle costs of the 
Department’s long-range, penetrating, survivable, persistent, 
and enduring ‘‘family of systems’’ platforms; and 
(2) the assumptions and estimated life-cycle costs of the 
Next Generation Platform program, as planned, prior to the 
cancellation of the program on April 6, 2009.
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SEC. 1057. COMPTROLLER GENERAL STUDY AND RECOMMENDATIONS 
REGARDING SECURITY OF SOUTHERN LAND BORDER OF 
THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) STUDY AND REPORT REQUIRED.—The Comptroller General 
of the United States shall conduct a study of the security of the 
southern land border of the United States and ongoing United 
States Government efforts to improve such security. Not later than 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller 
General shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives a report containing 
the findings of the study and such recommendations based on 
such findings as the Comptroller General considers to be appro-
priate. 
(b) ISSUES ADDRESSED.—The study and report required by sub-
section (a) shall address, at a minimum, the following issues: 
(1) The extent to which the United States has or has 
not achieved and maintained operational control over the 
southern land border of the United States, as defined in section 
2(b) of the Secure Fence Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–367; 
8 U.S.C. 1701 note). 
(2) The extent to which any lack of operational control 
over the southern land border of the United States has resulted 
in the operation of illicit networks trafficking in people, drugs, 
illegal weapons and money, violence associated with such illegal 
activities, and other impacts adverse to the interests of the 
United States. 
(3) The costs and benefits of steps, including but not limited 
to the steps identified in subsection (c), that could be taken 
by elements of the United States Government to achieve oper-
ational control over the southern land border of the United 
States. 
(4) The costs and benefits of an increased role for the 
Department of Defense in taking any such steps. 
(5) The adequacy of current information sharing agree-
ments and other related agreements between Federal, State, 
local, and tribal law enforcement authorities with regard to 
the security of the southern land border of the United States. 
(6) The impact of any increased deployment of unmanned 
aerial systems or unmanned aircraft on the use and availability 
of the National Airspace in the area of the southern land 
border of the United States. 
(c) SPECIFIC STEPS TO BE CONSIDERED.—The steps to be consid-
ered by the Comptroller General pursuant to paragraphs (3) and 
(4) of subsection (b) shall include the following: 
(1) The deployment of additional units or members of the 
National Guard or other Department of Defense personnel to 
the southern land border of the United States. 
(2) The commitment of additional border patrol agents 
or other civilian law enforcement personnel to the southern 
land border of the United States. 
(3) The construction of additional fencing, including double- 
layer and triple-layer fencing. 
(4) The increased use of ground-based mobile surveillance 
systems by military or civilian personnel. 
(5) The deployment of additional unmanned aerial systems 
and manned aircraft to provide surveillance of the southern 
land border of the United States.