Designation of southwest land border activities, support, and operations as named operation

(a) Designation Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall designate activities, support, and operations conducted by the Department of Defense in support of civil authorities at the southwest land border as a named operation, for the purposes of— (1) providing unified identification, planning, budgeting, oversight, and reporting for such activities, support, and operations; and (2) strengthening efforts to detect, deter, and disrupt transnational criminal organizations and other border-related threats. (b) Annual budget request In the budget justification materials submitted to Congress in support of the Department of Defense budget for the first fiscal year following the designation under subsection (a) and each fiscal year thereafter (as submitted with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code), the Secretary of Defense shall include— (1) a dedicated budget line item for the named operation so designated; (2) a display of the requested budgetary authority for such named operation by appropriations account and fiscal year; (3) a narrative justification describing the scope of, and legal authorities for, the planned activities, support, and operations to be carried out or provided under such named operation using amounts so requested; (4) with respect to such planned support, a summary of the types and estimated values of support to be provided; and (5) performance metrics and planned outputs with respect to such named operation for the subsequent fiscal year. (c) Form The summary specified in subsection (b)(4) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. (d) Rule of construction Nothing in this section may be construed to authorize the use of military force. (e) Definitions In this section: (1) The term southwest land border means the land border of the United States adjacent to Mexico. (2) The term support of civil authorities — (A) has the meaning given that term in Department of Defense Directive 3025.18, as amended; (B) includes support relating to planning, logistics, intelligence, aviation, and engineering; and (C) does not include support provided to a civilian law enforcement agency.