§9062a Annual report on Air Force tactical fighter aircraft force structure

Summary

By April 1, 2025, and once each year after that through 2030, the Secretary of the Air Force, working with the Director of the Air National Guard and the Commander of the Air Force Reserve Command, must make a 10-year plan for tactical fighter aircraft force structure, recapitalization, training, and sustainment for active and reserve forces and send a report to the congressional defense committees. The report must explain the right mix of fighter aircraft and related risk to meet steady-state global force assignments and combatant commander contingency plans; year-by-year plans for buying, retiring, or changing units (activation, deactivation, or re-missioning) for every existing active and reserve fighter unit for the 10 years after the report date, with reasons; steps to keep required readiness during recapitalization, modernization, or mission changes; any plans to add or replace piloted fighters with collaborative combat aircraft increment 1 or 2; and any plans to replace or augment training with joint, all-domain, high-fidelity synthetic simulators. The report must be unclassified with charts and may include a classified annex. Fighter aircraft is defined in section 9062(i)(2).