Afghanistan Security and Reconstruction Transparency Act

Afghanistan Security and Reconstruction Transparency Act

This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to make publicly available certain data and conduct assessments related to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF).

Specifically, DOD shall make publicly available all data related to ANDSF performance, including attrition rates and information about the operational readiness of Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police equipment. DOD shall also produce district-level stability assessments of Afghan government and insurgent control and influence and make such assessments publicly available.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6908 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6908

 To provide for public availability of data pertaining to measures of 
performance of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 15, 2020

    Mr. Lynch (for himself, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Cooper, Ms. Wasserman 
Schultz, Mr. Rouda, Mr. Welch, Mrs. Lawrence, Ms. Speier, and Ms. Kelly 
 of Illinois) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 
Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for public availability of data pertaining to measures of 
performance of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Afghanistan Security and 
Reconstruction Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC AVAILABILITY OF DATA PERTAINING TO MEASURES OF 
              PERFORMANCE OF THE AFGHAN NATIONAL DEFENSE AND SECURITY 
              FORCES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall make publicly 
available all data pertaining to measures of performance of the Afghan 
National Defense and Security Forces (hereafter in this section 
referred to as ``ANDSF'').
    (b) Data To Be Included.--The data required to be made publicly 
available by subsection (a) shall include the following:
            (1) The total quarterly ANDSF attrition rate and quarterly 
        attrition rates for ANDSF components, including the Afghan 
        National Army, the Afghan National Police, the Afghan Air 
        Force, and the Afghan Local Police.
            (2) The total number of ANDSF personnel dropped from the 
        rolls for the quarter and the number of personnel dropped from 
        the rolls by ANDSF component for the quarter.
            (3) The total number of ANDSF personnel trained to date, 
        the number of new ANDSF personnel that entered training for the 
        quarter, the number of new ANDSF personnel that completed 
        training for the quarter, the total number of personnel trained 
        by ANDSF component to date, the number of new personnel by 
        ANDSF component that entered training for the quarter, and the 
        number of new personnel by ANDSF component that completed 
        training for the quarter.
            (4) The total number and percentage of unfilled ANDSF 
        positions and the number and percentage of unfilled positions 
        by ANDSF component.
            (5) The percentage of ANDSF components assessed at full 
        authorized and assigned strength.
            (6) Detailed Afghan Ministry of Defense, Ministry of 
        Interior, and ANDSF performance assessments.
            (7) Information about the operational readiness of Afghan 
        National Army and Afghan National Police equipment.
            (8) Afghanistan Special Mission Wing information, including 
        the number and type of airframes, the number of pilots and 
        aircrew, and the operational readiness (and associated 
        benchmarks) of airframes.
            (9) Enemy-initiated attacks and effective enemy-initiated 
        attacks on the ANDSF.

SEC. 3. DISTRICT-LEVEL STABILITY ASSESSMENTS OF AFGHAN GOVERNMENT AND 
              INSURGENT CONTROL AND INFLUENCE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall resume the 
production of district-level stability assessments of Afghan government 
and insurgent control and influence that were discontinued in 2018, to 
include district, population, and territorial control data.
    (b) Public Availability.--The Secretary of Defense shall make 
publicly available the assessments and all data pertaining to the 
assessments produced under subsection (a).
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