; (ii) generates realistic military requirements; and (iii) provides a basis for assigning allies specific responsibilities as force providers in contingency plans; (C) pursue planning agreements with allies and partners in Europe on rules of engagement and arrangements for command and control, access, transit, and support in crisis situations, which occur prior to an invocation of Article 5 of the Washington Treaty by the North Atlantic Council; (D) promote operational readiness of major combat units as a key element of alliance burden sharing alongside spending commitments made at the 2014 Wales Summit, including through— (i) the establishment of 30-day readiness targets for NATO kinetic air squadrons, major naval combatants, and mechanized maneuver battalions; (ii) emphasis on allies maintaining fully manned units, improving readiness of key logistics units, increasing lift capacity, and maintaining sufficient stocks of equipment and munitions; and (iii) the conduct of NATO exercises with a focus on rapid mobilization and deployment of allied forces; (E) explore transitioning the Baltic air policing mission of NATO to a Baltic air defense mission that would— (i) be fully integrated with the Integrated Air and Missile Defense of NATO and other regional short- and medium-range air defense systems; and (ii) include the participation of NATO and regional partners such as Sweden and Finland; and (F) support multilateral efforts to improve maritime domain awareness in the Baltic Sea, including— (i) integrating subsurface sensors and anti-submarine warfare platforms of NATO and other regional partners into a shared maritime domain awareness framework; (ii) coordinating the development, procurement, and employment of aerial, surface, and subsurface unmanned vehicles as well as mobile air surveillance radars; (iii) expanding the scope of Sea Surveillance Cooperation Baltic Sea (SUCBAS) information sharing to include sensitive or classified data with the goal of creating a common operating picture