The Department of Defense has issued an updated document establishing policy and offering guidance for conducting and submitting readiness reports into the Defense Readiness Reporting System, or DRRS.
The updated DOD Instruction took effect Tuesday, Dec. 10, and was approved by Ashish Vazirani, who currently performs the duties of the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness.
The issuance directs readiness reporting in DRRS to support global visibility of doctrinal organizations and embedded capabilities for daily operations and wartime planning as well as continuous assessment and identification of authoritative data resources within DOD for incorporation into DRRS.
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Responsibilities of DOD Officials
The defense undersecretary for personnel and readiness should oversee readiness reporting policy development, manage the DRRS data exchange, create and maintain force elements with the DRRS Group Management module and develop a DRRS-compatible system for the registration of selected allied and partner forces needed to support strategic readiness assessments.
The updated instruction calls for the assistant secretary of defense for readiness to develop and recommend policy and plans for the continued development, operation and modernization of DRRS in support of National Defense Strategy objectives and oversee governance structures to manage the continued modernization of the DRRS IT system and development of readiness reporting policy requirements.
The director of the Defense Health Agency should develop standardized readiness reporting requirements to improve the capability, visibility and capacity of medical supplies and the medical logistics support capability to the joint force and integrate DHA military treatment facilities that support combatant command plans with definitive healthcare capabilities into DRRS.
Readiness Reporting in DRRS
The document also offers guidance for unit registration in DRRS, mission registration and management in DRSS, mission and capability assessments in the system and readiness reporting associated with threat-informed capability, contested and congested cyberspace, medical capability and electromagnetic spectrum.
The latest DOD instruction also cites military department installation, prepositioned war reserve materiel and allied and partner forces readiness reporting.