THE UNDER SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
WASHINGTON DC 20350-1000

Charter for the Readiness Reform and Oversight Council
Established January 2018

 

Purgose. The purpose of the Readiness and Reform Oversight Council (RROC) is to oversee
and ensure the implementation of Strategic Readiness Review (SRR) and Comprehensive
Review (CR) recommendations. This charter provides a framework for the RROC to serve as
the senior Department of the Navy (DON) integration, advisory, and oversight body. This
council will assess the overall health and effectiveness of DON efforts to reform and improve
readiness. The RROC provides a foundation for integrating and prioritizing the
recommendations from senior Department leadership, external and intemal assessments, and is
underpinned by the Navy?s broad analytic community.

Background. The DON readiness to ?ll?ll its roles and responsibilities in National Defense
Strategies is affected by a complex interaction of many systems and systems of systems. This
complexity mandates a holistic approach to determine these interactions, improve them, and
measure their effectiveness in order to increase Navy and Marine Corps lethality. This reform
effort is born out of several tragic incidents in 2017 across the Navy and Marine Corps. The
associated systemic problems found in the United States Fleet Forces Command Comprehensive
Review and the Strategic Readiness Review commissioned by the Secretary of the Navy, as well
as other associated reports over the past decade are also center to these efforts. Budgetary
pressures, decreasing combatant inventories, and a rising operational tempo over decades led to a
gradual acceptance of lower readiness standards, until they became the new normal. Just as this
?normalization of deviation? took decades to manifest, the effort to reform and improve the
Department of the Navy?s readiness will be long term in nature. The RROC is established to
provide continuity to see reforms and recommendations through to effective completion, and
thereby guard against similar ?xture trends and challenges that adversely impact the Department
of the Navy?s readiness.

Method. The RROC will organize working efforts along the ?Jnctional lines of effort reported
on in the command and control, operations, manning and training, budgetary and ?scal,
governance and industry best practices in learning. The recommendations and other
recommendations from external and internal reports and the analytic community will be
organized under these functional lines. Recommendations will be prioritized by the RROC to
guide Program Objective Memoranda (POM) resource allocation. Existing policy and other
governance constraints will be identi?ed for removal, change, or improvement by the Readiness
Reform and Steering Group (RRSG) described below. Each reform effort will be underpinned
by data analytics and metrics.

Roles and Responsibilities.

RROC: The Under-Secretary of the Navy (UNDERSECNAV) and the Vice Chief of Naval
Operations (VCNO) will co-chair the RROC with the responsibility to assess the overall health
and effectiveness of readiness reform tasks, approve closure of individual recommendations,
modify priorities and desired outcomes, and resolve con?icting objectives and efforts. The
RROC will report assessments to the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV), the Chief of Naval

Operations (CNO), and the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC) on a frequent basis. The
Director, Navy Staff (DNS) serves as the Executive Secretariat to the RROC to provide for
scheduling, agenda, delivery of administrative support, and publishing of reports. RROC
membership is as follows:

i. Under Secretary of the Navy
ii. Vice Chief of Naval Operations
Commander, United States Fleet Forces Command
iv. Commander, United States Paci?c Fleet
v. Director, SRR Of?ce

Readiness Reform Steering Group (RRSG): The Director of the Navy Staff (DNS), Director,
Marine Corps Staff, and Deputy Director of the SRR Of?ce, will co?chair the RRSG. The RRSG
is responsible for approving implementation plans and for concurrence and disposition of cross
?Jnctional and systemic issues, approval of changes in ownership of recommendations and
reforms, presenting proposed recommendations and reforms to the RROC for closure, referral of
issues to the RROC, identi?cation of policy and resource barriers, update and assessment of
POM and Program Budget (PB) items related to the readiness reform effort and to vet and
incorporate additional reports and analysis for review. The RRSG is responsible for the
preparation of periodic assessments, along with preparing reports to Congress and other entities
as directed by the RROC. RRSG membership is as follows:

i. Director, Navy Staff
ii. Director, Marine Corps Staff
Deputy Director, SRR Of?ce
iv. Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (DCNO) for Integration of Capabilities and Resources
(N3)
v. DCNO for Warfare Systems (N9)
vi. Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA)
vii. Commander, Naval Surface Forces (SURFOR)
Navy Inspector General (IG)
ix. Chief of Legislative Affairs (CLA)
x. Working Group Leads as described below
xi. Director, Navy Analytic Of?ce

Readiness Reform Working Groups (RRWG): RRWG ?mctional leads are reSponsible for the
recommendations under their cognizance, establishing implementation plans and metrics,
tracking and accomplishing recommendations and identi?cation of issues or recommendations
requiring additional assignment of oversight or reassignment within functional areas, and
prOposing closures to recommendations and reforms. Lead group responsibilities are assigned as
follows:

i. Command and Control: DCNO for Operations, Plans, and Strategy 
ii. Operations: DCNO for Operations, Plans, and Strategy 
Manning: DCNO for Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education (N1)
iv. Training: DCNO for Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education (N1)

v. Budgetary and Fiscal: ASN, Financial Management and Comptroller 
vi. Governance (Policy/Legislation): ASN, Manpower and Reserve Affairs 
vii. Learning Culture and Industry Best Practices: Chief of Naval Reserve (CNR) and Co-
Leads as designated by the Secretary of the Navy.

Meeting Periodicity

Appendix A provides the calendar structure to support outcomes.
Secretary Progress Reviews 
RROC: 
RRSG: 
RRWG: As determined by Working Group Lead.

Reporting Reguirements

Congress: A quarterly report to Congress on RROC progress is expected. This report
begins 90 days from 18 January 2018. Reports will be prepared by the Chairs of the
RRSG and submitted to SECNAV, CNO, and CMC through the RROC for approval.

RROC: Reports to SECNAV, CNO, and CMC as directed.

RRSG: report on progress to the RROC.

RRWG: Report as directed to RRSG and as necessary.

Effective Date. The RROC, RRSG, and associated shall operate according to this
charter as of the date signed.

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The Honorable Thomas Mo William F. Moran
Under Secretary Vice Chief of Naval Operations

 

 

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Appendix A: USN Readiness and Reform Organization
Appendix B: Readiness Oversight Schedule and Milestones
Appendix C: Notional RROC Function Lead Progress Report