S.Amdt. 2898

SA 2898. Mr. SCOTT of South Carolina (for himself and Mr. Graham)
submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S.
4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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 end of subtitle F of title III, add the following:

SEC. 358. PLAN ON FUNDING THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE
OF F-16 SIMULATOR TRAINING FACILITIES.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than March 1, 2025, the
Secretary of the Air Force shall, in coordination with the
Director of the Air National Guard, submit to the
congressional defense committees a report containing a plan
to fully fund the establishment and maintenance of F-16
simulator training facilities at all mission training centers
that are required to have such facilities but do not
currently have such facilities.
(b) Elements.--The report required under subsection (a)
shall include the following:
(1) Costs for the operation and maintenance of F-16
simulators at all mission training centers of the Air
National Guard that currently possess such simulators.
(2) Projected costs for the establishment of a full
complement of F-16 simulators at all facilities of the Air
National Guard that are required to have such simulators but
do not currently have such simulators.
(3) A description of how the Air Force and the Air National
Guard will allocate funding to carry out paragraph (2), to
include the proportions of the funding provided by the Air
Force and the Air National Guard.
(4) An assessment by each of the Secretary of the Air Force
and the Chief of the National Guard Bureau of how the
readiness of all Air National Guard units requiring F-16
simulators would be impacted by not placing simulators in the
mission training centers for such units.
(c) Implementation.--The Secretary of the Air Force and the
Director of the Air National Guard shall begin implementation
of the plan described in subsection (a) not later than
September 30, 2025.
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