1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Securing the Homeland by Increasing our Power on the Seas Implementation Act or SHIPS Implementation Act . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The 2016 Navy Force Structure Assessment (FSA) started with a request to the combatant commanders to provide their unconstrained desire for Navy forces in their respective theaters consistent with meeting the demands of the Defense Planning Scenarios. To fully resource these platform-specific demands with very little risk in any theater while supporting enduring missions, ongoing two operations and setting the theater for prompt warfighting response, the Navy would require a 653-ship force. (2) The 2016 Navy FSA further determined that a 355-ship battle force is the level that balances an acceptable level of warfighting risk to Navy equipment and personnel against available resources and achieves a force size that can reasonably achieve success. (3) On March 27, 2019, before the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, Vice Admiral William Merz testified, I certainly do not expect the [355-ship requirement] to go any lower. I would not be surprised if it goes up in several categories. . (4) The Navy battle force currently consists of 293 ships. (5) The Navy projects having 313 battle force ships in 2025. (6) The Navy assesses the size of the People’s Liberation Army Navy as having surpassed that of the United States Navy and predicts that it will reach 400 ships in 2025. (7) Section 1025 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 ( Public Law 115–91