Fighter Force Preservation Act of 2023

Fighter Force Preservation Act of 2023

This bill requires the Department of the Air Force to develop and report on a long-term tactical fighter force structure, recapitalization, training, and sustainment plan for the active and reserve components of the Air Force. Such plan must be submitted in an unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6735 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 13, 2023

  Mr. Bacon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 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 Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fighter Force Preservation Act of 
2023''.

SEC. 2. PLAN FOR LONG-TERM AIR FORCE FIGHTER FORCE STRUCTURE.

    (a) Plan Required.--The Secretary of the Air Force, in consultation 
with the Director of the Air National Guard and the Commander of the 
Air Force Reserve, shall develop a long-term tactical fighter force 
structure, recapitalization, training, and sustainment plan for the 
active and reserve components of the Air Force.
    (b) Elements.--The plan under subsection (a) shall address each of 
the following:
            (1) The appropriate mix of tactical fighter aircraft force 
        structure, with accompanying operational risk analyses, 
        required for the Secretary of the Air Force to meet expected 
        steady-state, global force management allocation plans and 
        geographical combatant commander contingency operational plans 
        tasked to the Air Force using active and reserve component 
        units.
            (2) The procurement, divestment, unit activation, 
        deactivation, or re-missioning plans or actions the Secretary 
        plans to implement, fiscal year-by-fiscal year, unit-by-unit, 
        for the next 12 years for each active and reserve component 
        tactical fighter aircraft unit existing as of the date of the 
        enactment of this Act, including the rationale and 
        justification for any such plans or actions.
            (3) The actions the Secretary will take to ensure that 
        required operational readiness rates are maintained during any 
        planned recapitalization, modernization, or change of mission 
        affecting tactical fighter aircraft units.
            (4) Any plans of the Secretary to augment or supplant 
        existing piloted tactical fighter aircraft capability or 
        capacity with Collaborative Combat Aircraft Increment 1 or 
        Increment 2 capability or capacity.
            (5) Any plans of the Secretary to augment or supplant 
        existing piloted tactical fighter aircraft training events via 
        acquisition and fielding of common, joint, all-domain, high-
        fidelity synthetic simulation environments.
    (c) Report.--Not later than April 1, 2024, the Secretary of the Air 
Force shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report 
that includes the plan developed under subsection (a).
    (d) Form of Report.--The report required under subsection (c) shall 
be submitted in unclassified form, but may contain a classified annex.
    (e) Congressional Defense Committees Defined.--In this section, the 
term ``congressional defense committees'' has the meaning given that 
term in section 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code.
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