82 FR 8983 - Rebuilding the U.S. Armed Forces

Executive Office of the President

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 20 (February 1, 2017)

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FR Document		2017-02282

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 20 (Wednesday, February 1, 2017)

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 20 (Wednesday, February 1, 2017)]
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                Memorandum of January 27, 2017

                
Rebuilding the U.S. Armed Forces

                Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense [and] the 
                Director of the Office of Management and Budget

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States, 
                including my authority as Commander in Chief of the 
                Armed Forces of the United States, I hereby direct the 
                following:

                Section 1. Policy. To pursue peace through strength, it 
                shall be the policy of the United States to rebuild the 
                U.S. Armed Forces.

                Sec. 2. Readiness. (a) The Secretary of Defense 
                (Secretary) shall conduct a 30-day Readiness Review. As 
                part of this review, the Secretary shall:

(i) assess readiness conditions, including training, equipment maintenance, 
munitions, modernization, and infrastructure; and

(ii) submit to the President a report identifying actions that can be 
implemented within the current fiscal year and that are necessary to 
improve readiness conditions.

                    (b) Concurrently with the Readiness Review, the 
                Secretary, together with the Director of the Office of 
                Management and Budget (OMB), shall develop a Fiscal 
                Year (FY) 2017 budget amendment for military readiness, 
                including any proposed reallocations.
                    (c) The Secretary shall work with the Director of 
                OMB to develop levels for the Department of Defense's 
                FY 2018 budget request that are necessary to improve 
                readiness conditions and address risks to national 
                security.
                    (d) Within 60 days of the date of this order, the 
                Secretary shall submit to the President a plan of 
                action to achieve the levels of readiness identified in 
                the Secretary's Readiness Review before FY 2019. That 
                plan of action shall address areas for improvement, 
                including insufficient maintenance, delays in acquiring 
                parts, access to training ranges, combatant command 
                operational demands, funding needed for consumables 
                (e.g., fuel, ammunition), manpower shortfalls, depot 
                maintenance capacity, and time needed to plan, 
                coordinate, and execute readiness and training 
                activities.

                Sec. 3. Rebuilding the U.S. Armed Forces. (a) Upon 
                transmission of a new National Security Strategy to 
                Congress, the Secretary shall produce a National 
                Defense Strategy (NDS). The goal of the NDS shall be to 
                give the President and the Secretary maximum strategic 
                flexibility and to determine the force structure 
                necessary to meet requirements.

                    (b) The Secretary shall initiate a new Nuclear 
                Posture Review to ensure that the United States nuclear 
                deterrent is modern, robust, flexible, resilient, 
                ready, and appropriately tailored to deter 21st-century 
                threats and reassure our allies.
                    (c) The Secretary shall initiate a new Ballistic 
                Missile Defense Review to identify ways of 
                strengthening missile-defense capabilities, rebalancing 
                homeland and theater defense priorities, and 
                highlighting priority funding areas.

                Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this 
                memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise 
                affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

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(ii) the functions of the Director of OMB relating to budgetary, 
administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This memorandum shall be implemented consistent 
                with applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) All actions taken pursuant to this memorandum 
                shall be consistent with requirements and authorities 
                to protect intelligence and law enforcement sources and 
                methods. Nothing in this order shall be interpreted to 
                supersede measures established under authority of law 
                to protect the security and integrity of specific 
                activities and associations that are in direct support 
                of intelligence and law enforcement operations.
                    (d) This memorandum is not intended to, and does 
                not, create any right or benefit, substantive or 
                procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any 
                party against the United States, its departments, 
                agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or 
                agents, or any other person.
                    (e) The Secretary is hereby authorized and directed 
                to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, January 27, 2017

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Section		Presidential Documents
FR Citation		82 FR 8983