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