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Strategy to support Joint Strike Fighter sustainment and maintenance in contested operating environments

Division A · Title III: Operation and Maintenance · Subtitle D: Reports

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The Department of Defense must create a plan to maintain and repair Joint Strike Fighter aircraft in challenging combat areas, covering topics like transporting parts, communication needs, supply chain software, and stockpiling spare parts on ships and bases. The plan will also include coordination with allies and integration into military operations. Within a year, the Defense Secretary must report this plan to Congress in an unclassified format, with an optional classified section.

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Section Text · Sec. 341.
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(a) Strategy required

The Secretary of the Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of the Air Force, the Secretary of the Navy, the Commander of the United States Transportation Command, and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency, shall develop a strategy to support the sustainment and maintenance of Joint Strike Fighter aircraft in contested operating environments. Such strategy shall address, at a minimum, the following:

(1)

The transportation of spares and repair parts for such aircraft into and across contested theaters of operation.

(2)

Communications requirements necessary for the transportation of such parts in a denied, degraded, intermittent, or limited environment.

(3)

Requirements relating to relevant supply chain management software.

(4)

Prepositioned stocks of spares and repair parts for Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, including measures to ensure the currency and serviceability of ready for issue parts and to require that the statuses of such prepositioned stocks include instructions for the disposition and replacement of any such parts that are not current or ready for issue.

(5)

Spares and repair parts packages deployed on naval vessels in which Joint Strike Fighter aircraft are embarked, including measures relating to prepositioning, currency, and serviceability described in paragraph (4) with respect to spares and repair parts packages deployed on such vessels.

(6)

The incorporation of sustainment efforts for deployed Joint Strike Fighter aircraft into the framework of the Air Force for agile combat employment and the framework of the Navy for distributed maritime operations.

(7)

The international system for managing spare parts for Joint Strike Fighter aircraft commonly referred to as the global spares pool .

(8)

Support from, and coordination with, allies and partners of the United States.

(b) Report

(1) Submission to Congress

Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the strategy required under subsection (a).

(2) Form

The report required under paragraph (1) shall be submitted in an unclassified form but may include a classified annex.