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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 5231 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To direct the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a force design for |
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| 6 | 6 | | the Air Force and Space Force. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | AUGUST18, 2023 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. B |
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| 10 | 10 | | ACONintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee |
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| 11 | 11 | | on Armed Services |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To direct the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a force |
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| 14 | 14 | | design for the Air Force and Space Force. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the Air 4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Force Future Force Design Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEC. 2. FUTURE FORCE DESIGN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | THE AIR FORCE. 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) S |
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| 23 | 23 | | ENSE OFCONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | gress that— 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | (1) the Department of the Air Force has made 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | significant progress in organizing, training, and 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | equipping the Air Force and Space Force to address 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | the needs of the Joint Force and align with the cur-4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | rent National Defense Strategy and National Mili-5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | tary Strategy; and 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (2) to be prepared to effectively deter and de-7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | feat a peer adversary, the Department must address 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | force design requirements that will enable equipment 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | modernization, organizational restructure, and ca-10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | pacity adjustments to meet the challenges presented 11 |
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| 39 | 39 | | by the People’s Republic of China. 12 |
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| 40 | 40 | | (b) F |
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| 41 | 41 | | ORCEDESIGNREQUIRED.—Not later than Au-13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | gust 31, 2024, the Secretary of the Air Force shall develop 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | a force design for the Air Force and Space Force projected 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | through 2050. 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (c) E |
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| 46 | 46 | | LEMENTS.—The force design under subsection 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | (b) shall address— 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (1) the concepts, capabilities, and structural 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | elements (including size and form) of the Air Force 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | and Space Force that are necessary to ensure those 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | forces effectively execute their core functions 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | through 2050 in support of the National Defense 23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | Strategy and the National Military Strategy; 24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | (2) force structure, including the development 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | of capabilities (including platforms and systems) at 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | the right level of capacity to address the challenges 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | outlined by the National Defense Strategy and Na-4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | tional Military Strategy; 5 |
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| 62 | 62 | | (3) force composition, including recruitment 6 |
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| 63 | 63 | | and development of the human capital, effective dis-7 |
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| 64 | 64 | | tribution of forces in the total force and policies to 8 |
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| 65 | 65 | | increase career flexibility across the different compo-9 |
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| 66 | 66 | | nents; 10 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (4) organizational design, including develop-11 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ment of potential models to increase agility and 12 |
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| 69 | 69 | | operational effectiveness across the Air Force and 13 |
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| 70 | 70 | | Space Force; and 14 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (5) such other matters as the Secretary of the 15 |
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| 72 | 72 | | Air Force determines to be relevant. 16 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (d) I |
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| 74 | 74 | | NFORMATION TOCONGRESS.—Not later than 60 17 |
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| 75 | 75 | | days after completion of the force design required under 18 |
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| 76 | 76 | | subsection (b), the Secretary of the Air Force shall— 19 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (1) submit a summary of the force design to 20 |
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| 78 | 78 | | the congressional defense committees; and 21 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (2) provide to the congressional defense com-22 |
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| 80 | 80 | | mittees a briefing on the force design. 23 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (e) C |
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| 82 | 82 | | ONGRESSIONAL DEFENSECOMMITTEESDE-24 |
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| 83 | 83 | | FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘congressional defense 25 |
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| 87 | 87 | | committees’’ has the meaning given that term in section 1 |
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| 88 | 88 | | 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code. 2 |
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