[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5127]
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  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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