10 U.S.C. § 2392 — Process for strategic basing actions for the Department of the Air Force

(a) The Secretary of the Air Force or designee may not make a basing decision during the resource allocation plan or program objective memorandum process. (b) Within 90 days after enactment, and every quarter afterward, the Secretary or designee must brief the congressional defense committees about: (1) strategic basing actions approved by the strategic basing panel for review during the quarter; (2) for each action not covered by an earlier briefing, the criteria for choosing candidate locations and how the criteria will be applied; (3) updates on candidate, preferred, and finally selected locations; and (4) actions whose projected decision dates occur before the next briefing. (c) At the request of either House or Senate Armed Services Committee, the Secretary or designee must brief that committee on the information in subsection (b). (d) Within seven days after a change takes effect, the Secretary or designee must notify the congressional defense committees of a change to selection criteria or their application that would produce a different briefing result about the enterprise definition, candidate locations, or preferred location, or a change to the governance process overseeing a strategic basing action. (e) For an action involving an installation outside the United States and the listed United States territories, a required notification may be classified. (f) “Enterprise definition,” “program objective memorandum process,” “resource allocation plan,” “strategic basing action,” “strategic basing executive steering group,” and “strategic basing panel” have the meanings given in Department of the Air Force Instruction 10–503, issued June 12, 2023, as in effect November 1, 2024. This section does not define those terms.