§9062a Annual Report on Air Force Tactical Fighter Aircraft Force Structure

Summary

By April 1, 2025, and once a year 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. The plan covers force size, replacing aircraft, training, and maintenance for active and reserve units, and the Secretary must send a report about it to the congressional defense committees. The report must say what mix of fighter aircraft is needed and include risk analysis so the Air Force can meet expected global force allocations and geographic combatant commander contingency plans. It must list year-by-year, unit-by-unit procurement, divestment, and unit activation, deactivation, or re-missioning actions for a 10-year period from the report date, with reasons for each. It must explain how required readiness rates will be kept during recapitalization, modernization, or mission changes. It must state any plans to add or replace piloted fighters with collaborative combat aircraft increment 1 or increment 2, and any plans to add or replace pilot training with common, joint, all-domain, high-fidelity synthetic simulation environments. The report must be unclassified with charts and tables but may include a classified annex. The term "fighter aircraft" is defined in section 9062(i)(2) of this title.