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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 6735 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a long-term tactical |
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| 6 | 6 | | fighter plan for the active and reserve components of the Air Force, |
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| 7 | 7 | | and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | DECEMBER13, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. B |
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| 11 | 11 | | ACONintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee |
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| 12 | 12 | | on Armed Services |
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| 13 | 13 | | A BILL |
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| 14 | 14 | | To require the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a |
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| 15 | 15 | | long-term tactical fighter plan for the active and reserve |
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| 16 | 16 | | components of the Air Force, and for other purposes. |
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| 17 | 17 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 18 | 18 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 19 | 19 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 20 | 20 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Fighter Force Preser-4 |
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| 21 | 21 | | vation Act of 2023’’. 5 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEC. 2. PLAN FOR LONG-TERM AIR FORCE FIGHTER FORCE 6 |
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| 23 | 23 | | STRUCTURE. 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | (a) P |
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| 25 | 25 | | LANREQUIRED.—The Secretary of the Air 8 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Force, in consultation with the Director of the Air Na-9 |
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| 30 | 30 | | tional Guard and the Commander of the Air Force Re-1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | serve, shall develop a long-term tactical fighter force struc-2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ture, recapitalization, training, and sustainment plan for 3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | the active and reserve components of the Air Force. 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (b) E |
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| 35 | 35 | | LEMENTS.—The plan under subsection (a) shall 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | address each of the following: 6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (1) The appropriate mix of tactical fighter air-7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | craft force structure, with accompanying operational 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | risk analyses, required for the Secretary of the Air 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | Force to meet expected steady-state, global force 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | management allocation plans and geographical com-11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | batant commander contingency operational plans 12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | tasked to the Air Force using active and reserve 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | component units. 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (2) The procurement, divestment, unit activa-15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | tion, deactivation, or re-missioning plans or actions 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | the Secretary plans to implement, fiscal year-by-fis-17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | cal year, unit-by-unit, for the next 12 years for each 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | active and reserve component tactical fighter aircraft 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | unit existing as of the date of the enactment of this 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | Act, including the rationale and justification for any 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | such plans or actions. 22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (3) The actions the Secretary will take to en-23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | sure that required operational readiness rates are 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | maintained during any planned recapitalization, 25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | modernization, or change of mission affecting tac-1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | tical fighter aircraft units. 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (4) Any plans of the Secretary to augment or 3 |
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| 62 | 62 | | supplant existing piloted tactical fighter aircraft ca-4 |
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| 63 | 63 | | pability or capacity with Collaborative Combat Air-5 |
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| 64 | 64 | | craft Increment 1 or Increment 2 capability or ca-6 |
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| 65 | 65 | | pacity. 7 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (5) Any plans of the Secretary to augment or 8 |
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| 67 | 67 | | supplant existing piloted tactical fighter aircraft 9 |
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| 68 | 68 | | training events via acquisition and fielding of com-10 |
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| 69 | 69 | | mon, joint, all-domain, high-fidelity synthetic simula-11 |
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| 70 | 70 | | tion environments. 12 |
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| 71 | 71 | | (c) R |
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| 72 | 72 | | EPORT.—Not later than April 1, 2024, the Sec-13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | retary of the Air Force shall submit to the congressional 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | defense committees a report that includes the plan devel-15 |
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| 75 | 75 | | oped under subsection (a). 16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (d) F |
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| 77 | 77 | | ORM OFREPORT.—The report required under 17 |
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| 78 | 78 | | subsection (c) shall be submitted in unclassified form, but 18 |
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| 79 | 79 | | may contain a classified annex. 19 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (e) C |
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| 81 | 81 | | ONGRESSIONAL DEFENSECOMMITTEESDE-20 |
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| 82 | 82 | | FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘congressional defense 21 |
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| 83 | 83 | | committees’’ has the meaning given that term in section 22 |
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| 84 | 84 | | 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code. 23 |
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