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[CITE: 10USC487]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
            PART I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS
 
              CHAPTER 23--MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES AND REPORTS
 
Sec. 487. Unit operations tempo and personnel tempo: annual 
        report
        
    (a) Inclusion in Annual Report.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
include in the annual report required by section 113(c) of this title a 
description of the operations tempo and personnel tempo of the armed 
forces.
    (b) Specific Requirements.--(1) Until such time as the Secretary of 
Defense develops a common method to measure operations tempo and 
personnel tempo for the armed forces, the description required under 
subsection (a) shall include the methods by which each of the armed 
forces measures operations tempo and personnel tempo.
    (2) The description shall include the personnel tempo policies of 
each of the armed forces and any changes to these policies since the 
preceding report.
    (3) The description shall include a table depicting the active duty 
end strength for each of the armed forces for each of the preceding five 
years and also depicting the number of members of each of the armed 
forces deployed over the same period, as determined by the Secretary 
concerned.
    (4) The description shall identify the active and reserve component 
units of the armed forces participating at the battalion, squadron, or 
an equivalent level (or a higher level) in contingency operations, major 
training events, and other exercises and contingencies of such a scale 
that the exercises and contingencies receive an official designation, 
that were conducted during the period covered by the report and the 
duration of their participation.
    (5) For each of the armed forces, the description shall indicate the 
average number of days a member of that armed force was deployed away 
from the member's home station during the period covered by the report 
as compared to recent previous years for which such information is 
available.
    (6) For each of the armed forces, the description shall indicate the 
number of days that high demand, low density units (as defined by the 
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) were deployed during the period 
covered by the report, and whether these units met the force goals for 
limiting deployments, as described in the personnel tempo policies 
applicable to that armed force.
    (c) Operations Tempo and Personnel Tempo Defined.--Until such time 
as the Secretary of Defense establishes definitions of operations tempo 
and personnel tempo applicable to all of the armed forces, the following 
definitions shall apply for purposes of the preparation of the 
description required under subsection (a):
        (1) The term ``operations tempo'' means the rate at which units 
    of the armed forces are involved in all military activities, 
    including contingency operations, exercises, and training 
    deployments.
        (2) The term ``personnel tempo'' means the amount of time 
    members of the armed forces are engaged in their official duties, 
    including official duties at a location or under circumstances that 
    make it infeasible for a member to spend off-duty time in the 
    housing in which the member resides when on garrison duty at the 
    member's permanent duty station.

    (d) Other Definitions.--In this section, the term ``armed forces'' 
does not include the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service 
in the Department of the Navy.

(Added Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title IX, Sec. 923(b)(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 
113 Stat. 724.)
