S.Amdt. 4128

SA 4128. Mr. McCAIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle E of title V, add the following:

SEC. 565. REPORTS ON READY, RELEVANT LEARNING INITIATIVE OF
THE NAVY.

(a) In General.--Not later than September 1, 2016, and
March 1 of each of 2017, 2018, and 2019, the Secretary of the
Navy shall submit to the congressional defense committees a
report on the Ready, Relevant Learning (RRL) initiative of
the Navy.
(b) Elements.--Each report under subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) An assessment of the performance of the Ready, Relevant
Learning initiative during the preceding 12 months under the
metrics developed to evaluate the initiative.
(2) A description of current lessons learned through the
transition to the Ready, Relevant Learning initiative.
(3) A description of the actions relating to the transition
to the Ready, Relevant Learning initiative completed in the
last fiscal year ending before the year in which such report
is submitted, and anticipated in the fiscal year in which
such report is submitted and each of the next five fiscal
years, as follows:
(A) Ratings analysis and content reengineering, by rating
or course of instruction.
(B) Decision points of Navy leadership relating to
transitions to the initiative, by rating, from the pre-
initiative model to the initiative model.
(C) Reductions in Individuals Account by end strength and
funding.
(D) Reductions in A-school and C-school billets.
(E) Funding realignments from the military personnel, Navy
(MPN) account to the operation and maintenance, Navy (OMN)
account in connection.
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