Field Organizations Unit Status Reporting

1 Army Regulation 220 1 Field OrganizationsUnit StatusReportingHeadquartersDepartment of the ArmyWashington, DC19 December 2006 UNCLASSIFIEDSUMMARY of CHANGEAR 220 1 unit Status ReportingThis rapid action revision, dated 19 December 2006--o Updates the terminology for Army major commands and headquarters(throughout).o Clarifies that unit commanders are solely responsible for the accuracy of theinformation and data they enter into their reports (paras 1-1 and D-1).o Establishes that NetUSR, when fielded, will replace PC-ASORTS as the officialUSR input tool (para 1-6).o Adds requirement for commanders to include their METL assessments in deployedreports (table 3-2 and para 11-3).o Revises instructions for determining the number of pregnant females in theunit to eliminate the postpartum criterion (para 4-9).

2 O Revises requirements for commanders to rank order their equipment shortages(para 5-12).o Establishes that the temporary profile category for personnel availabilitywill include prenatal and postpartum profiles (table D-1).o Updates implementing instructions for the Defense Readiness Reporting Systemby Army major revision, dated 16 March 2006--o Updates unit Status Reporting policy , procedures, and references in light ofnew requirements established by the Global Status of Resources and TrainingSystem (throughout).o Eliminates references to the authorized level of organization as a tool usedby Headquarters, Department of the Army to manage resourcing (throughout).o Explains the importance of unit Status Reporting and the complementaryrelationship between this regulation and AR 220-20, which was initiallypublished in February 2004 (para 1-1).

3 O Clarifies the unit Status Reporting management oversight responsibilities ofthe Installation Management Agency and Army Service Component Commands andestablishes definitive and doctrinal hand-off protocols for transfer ofresponsibilities between the national Guard Bureau and the Major Commands andbetween the major commands and the Army Service Component Command (para 1-4).o Revises responsibilities for Department of the Army management oversight ofthe process and procedures to update information regarding equipmentreadiness codes and pacing items for units by type (para 1-4).o Establishes the Force Management System (formerly WebTAADS) as theauthoritative source for resolving discrepancies between modification tableof organization and equipment/table of distribution and allowances documentsand LOGTAADS (para 1-5).

4 O Establishes an ad hoc menu screen in PC-ASORTS to accommodate extraordinaryreporting requirements directed by HQDA (para 1-6).o Clarifies and/or defines "measured units," establishes a data Field toidentify exempt units, and requires additional units to submit compositereports, to include actual and planned Joint Task Force headquarters, corpsheadquarters, emerging modular division headquarters, and combat and supportbrigades, in order to comply with revised Global Status of Resources andTraining System requirements and/or to more effectively support HQDA sinformation requirements (para 2-2).o Establishes additional report types to facilitate tailoring unit statusreporting requirements to specific units and/or their circumstances and toenhance unit Status Reporting flexibility (para 2-4).

5 O Establishes more stringent requirements for Reserve Component units and Armyprepositioned stocks to submit change reports and establishes newrequirements for all units to report changes to operational control andadministrative control Status , current location, current Status andactivity, percent effective level, and receipt by the unit of an executionorder, deployment order, or mobilization order (para 2-4).o Clarifies responsibilities for establishing Status Reporting channels foroperationally deployed units (para 2-5).o Classifies all unit Status reports by eliminating the provisions for a singlecompany level report to be UNCLASSIFIED/FOUO (para 2-7).o Revises guidance for determining unit /element availability for unit statusreporting purposes to clarify and simplify the responsibilities of unitcommanders (para 3-3).

6 O Establishes C-5 Reporting instructions for units participating in the Army sForce Stabilization Program and establishes Headquarters, Department of theArmy as the C-5 approval authority for all composite Reporting units and unitsundergoing modularity conversion (para 3-4).o Expands the use of Level 6 to address availability issues in compositereporting (para 3-5).o Adds selected unit Status and location data, force pool assignment, forcepackage designation, and points of contact information to the basic unitinformation that must be updated by the unit commander in conjunction withunit Status Reporting submissions (para 3-7).o Aligns unit Status Reporting criteria regarding the promotion Status ofSoldiers with Army manning guidance (para 4-1).o Clarifies that positions on augmentation tables of distribution and allowancewill not be included in the determination of required strength (para 4-2).

7 O Adds options to report ERC B and C LINs at S2 and S3 (paras 5-3 and 5-12).o Revises criteria for evaluating component part availability and eliminatesthe medical equipment report (paras 5-5 and 5-12).o Eliminates requirements for units to report information regarding specialduty personnel (chap 4).o Clarifies unit Status Reporting requirements regarding equipment not on site,to include the availability, for unit Status Reporting purposes, of stay-behind equipment items and equipment in transit and/or en route to rejoin theunit (para 5-7).o Updates and simplifies unit Status Reporting requirements regarding thestatus of nuclear, biological, or chemical equipment in units (para 5-13).o Deletes requirement for units to report on the serviceability Status ofselected Nuclear, Biological or Chemical equipment items via general Adds requirements for unit commanders to list their core tasks and associatedtraining proficiency assessments and, when applicable, their directedmission tasks and associated training proficiency assessments, to include,for Army national Guard units, tasks supporting state controlled missions(para 7-2).

8 O Clarifies the process to determine the training level by incorporatingtraining events execution review criteria into the training leveldetermination process (para 7-5).o Eliminates the requirement to include authorized stockage list Status data inthe mission accomplishment estimate section (para 8-3).o Revises the descriptions of the mission accomplishment estimate bands toalign them with the descriptions of the C-levels (para 8-6).o Establishes special unit Status Reporting instructions applicable to unitsconducting split-based operations (para 9-8).o Eliminates the requirement for units to determine and report Establishes a requirement for Reserve Component major combat units to submita composite report upon the closure of all subordinate units at theirmobilization stations (para 9-8).

9 O Establishes two distinct formats for composite reports (Type I and Type II)and provides instructions for using each type (para 10-1 and para 10-4).o Clarifies percent effective data Reporting requirements, to includeaddressing, when applicable, the state-controlled missions of Army NationalGuard units, establishing a requirement to report percent effective datawithin 24 hours after the unit is ordered to execute selected missions, andclarifying the relationship between the percent effective level and the C-level (para 11-2).o Clarifies deployed Reporting requirements, to include specifying that 90-dayreadiness projections must be included in the deployed reports of majorcombat units and prescribing that deployed units must submit a deployedreport within 24 hours after the main body closes in the theater duringreception, staging onward movement, and integration (para 11-3).

10 O Eliminates provisions that directed major combat units to determine andreport a special T-level while deployed, while subordinate elements aredeployed, or following deployments (chap 11).o Updates unit Status Reporting procedures for multiple component units (para12-3).o Updates policy guidance and instructions for establishing equipmentreadiness codes and designating pacing items and indicates that theinformation formerly contained in tables B-1 and C-1 will be maintained at theForce Management System on the Internet (app B and app C).o Revises instructions for determining personnel availability, to includeestablishing new criteria for individual medical readiness and incorporatingcriteria related to the child soldier protocol (app D).o Updates reason codes for personnel Status level other than P-1 to align withreason codes in the Global Status of Resources and Training System (app E).