the statutory organization and functions prescribed in section 8063 of title 10, United States Code. (6) An assessment of the current retention and recruiting environment and the ability of the Marine Corps to sustain manpower requirements necessary for operational requirements levied by title 10, in light of the published Force Design plan. (7) The extent to which the modernization initiatives within the Marine Corps are nested within applicable joint warfighting concepts. (8) An assessment of whether the Marine Corps’ modernization is consistent with the strategy of integrated deterrence. (9) An assessment of the ability of the Marine Corps to generate required force elements for the Immediate Ready Force and the Contingency Ready Force, based on current and planned end strength and structure. (10) The extent to which the Marine Corps’ published plan for modernized capabilities can be integrated across the Joint Force, to include warfighting concepts at the combatant command level. (11) The extent to which the Marine Corps’ modernization efforts currently meet the requirements of combatant commanders’ current plans and global force management operations, to include a description of what mechanisms exist to ensure geographic combatant requirements inform Marine Corps modernization efforts. (12) The extent to which modeling and simulation, experimentation, wargaming, and other analytic methods support the changes incorporated into the Marine Corps’ modernization initiatives, to include underlying assumptions and outcomes of such analyses. (13) An inventory of extant or planned investments as part of the Marine Corps’ modernization efforts, disaggregated by the following capability areas and including actual or projected dates of Initial Operational Capability and Full Operational Capability: (A) Command and Control. (B) Information. (C) Intelligence. (D) Fires. (E) Movement and Maneuver. (F) Protection. (G) Sustainment. (14) An inventory of divestments of capability or capacity, whether force structure or