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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6313. Mr. MORAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place in title I, insert the following:
SEC. __. ROADMAP FOR B-1 BOMBER AIRCRAFT FORCE STRUCTURE AND
TRANSITION.
(a) In General.—Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air Force
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a
comprehensive roadmap detailing the readiness, future need,
basing, and modernization needs of the B-1 bomber aircraft
fleet.
(b) Elements.—The roadmap required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) A detailed schedule and rationale for the planned
divestment of B-1 bomber aircraft, including—
(A) a phased retirement timeline, location-specific
retirement plans for affected installations, and
infrastructure disposition;
(B) an assessment of resulting capability gaps and
mitigation strategies; and
(C) the budgetary and manpower impacts across the
retirement timeline.
(2) A strategy for maintaining the readiness of the B-1
bomber aircraft fleet during the reactivation period,
including—
(A) an update on current avionics and mission systems
modernization; and
(B) a review of the conventional weapons integration
roadmap.
(3) A feasibility assessment, in coordination with the
Chief of the National Guard Bureau and the Director of the
Air National Guard, for transitioning part of or all B-1
bomber aircraft operations to units of the Air National
Guard.
(4) An assessment of how the force structure of B-1 bomber
aircraft supports continuity of long-range conventional
strike capacity, including an analysis of —
(A) the role of B-1 bomber aircraft in current operational
plans; and
(B) the extent to which a Guard-integrated force can
fulfill requirements under those plans during transition.
(5) A detailed, integrated timeline with key milestones for
each of the elements described in paragraphs (1) through (4),
including—
(A) programmatic decision points requiring approval by the
Secretary of the Air Force or the Office of the Secretary of
Defense;
(B) congressional notification requirements associated with
basing changes or aircraft retirements under section 2687 of
title 10, United States Code, or other applicable statutes;
(C) resourcing requirements by fiscal year and program
objective memorandum alignment;
(D) risk assessments for each phase of the transition; and
(E) key interdependencies between transition milestones for
the B-1 bomber aircraft and related force structure actions
of the Air National Guard.
(c) Consultation.—In preparing the roadmap required by
subsection (a), the Secretary of the Air Force shall consult
with the Commander of the Air Force Global Strike Command,
the Commander of the Air Combat Command, the Chief of the
National Guard Bureau, and the Director of the Air National
Guard.