[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 193 (Wednesday, November 3, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7748-S7749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4256. Mr. LEE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed to 
the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
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 E of title III, add the following:

     SEC. 376. BRIEFING ON AIR FORCE PLAN FOR CERTAIN AEROSPACE 
                   GROUND EQUIPMENT MODERNIZATION.

       Not later than March 1, 2022, the Secretary of the Air 
     Force shall provide a briefing to the Committees on Armed 
     Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on 
     current and future plans for the replacement of aging 
     aerospace ground equipment, which shall include--
       (1) an analysis of the average yearly cost to the Air Force 
     of maintaining legacy and out-of-production air start carts;

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       (2) a comparison of the cost of reconditioning existing 
     legacy systems compared to the cost of replacing such systems 
     with next-generation air start carts;
       (3) an analysis of the long-term maintenance and fuel 
     savings that would be realized by the Air Force if such 
     systems were upgraded to next-generation air start carts;
       (4) an analysis of the tactical and logistical benefits of 
     transitioning from current aerospace ground equipment systems 
     to modern systems; and
       (5) an overview of existing and future plans to replace 
     legacy air start carts with modern aerospace ground equipment 
     technology.
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