---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 10102a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "10102a"
heading: "Deployment prioritization and readiness of Army components"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/10102a"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part I — Organization and Administration"
  - "Chapter 1003 — Reserve Components Generally"
---

# §10102a. Deployment prioritization and readiness of Army components

- (a) **Deployment Prioritization.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) of the Army shall maintain a system for identifying the priority of deployment for units of all components of the Army.
- (b) **Deployability Readiness Rating.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) of the Army shall maintain a readiness [rating](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) system for units of all components of the Army that provides an accurate assessment of the deployability of a unit and those shortfalls of a unit that require the provision of additional resources. The system shall ensure—
  - (1) that the personnel readiness [rating](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) of a unit reflects—
    - (A) both the percentage of the overall personnel requirement of the unit that is manned and deployable and the fill and deployability [rate](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) for critical occupational specialties necessary for the unit to carry out its basic mission requirements; and
    - (B) the number of personnel in the unit who are qualified in their primary military occupational specialty; and
  - (2) that the equipment readiness assessment of a unit—
    - (A) documents all equipment required for deployment;
    - (B) reflects only that equipment that is directly possessed by the unit;
    - (C) specifies the effect of substitute items; and
    - (D) assesses the effect of missing components and sets on the readiness of major equipment items.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title III, § 321(a)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2074.)