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 106 STAT. 2470 PUBLIC LAW 102-484—OCT. 23, 1992 programs specified in subsection (b), not more than 65 percent may be obligated for those programs (allocated among those programs in such manner as the Secretary of Defense determines) until 60 days after the date as of which each of the following has occurred: (1) The Secretary of Defense has transmitted to Congress the report referred to in section 901 in accordance with that section. (2) The Secretary of Defense has submitted to the congressional defense committees the report described in subsection (c) setting forth a comprehensive affordability assessment of Department of Defense tactical aircraft programs. (3) The Secretary of Defense has submitted to the congressional defense committees the technical assessments of the Defense Science Board that are specified in subsection (d). (4) The Secretary of Defense has established a revised acquisition plan for the A-X medium attack aircraft program of the Navy as described in section 214. (b) APPLICABILITY. —Subsection (a) applies to the following tectical aircraft programs: (1) The F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) program of the Air Force. (2) The FA-18E/F fighter program of the Navy. (3) The A-X medium atteck aircraft program of the Navy. (c) COMPREHENSIVE AFFORDABILITY ASSESSMENT. —(1) The report under subsection (a)(2) shall contein a comprehensive affordability assessment of the long-range modernization plans of the Department of Defense for tactical aircraft programs. The assessment shall be prepared in light of the roles and missions report referred to in subsection (a)(l) and any other analysis of Department of Defense tactical aircraft requirements that the Secretary considers relevant. (2) The toctical aircraft modernization plans to be considered in the assessment shall include— (A) continued procurement of current aircraft; (B) upgrades to current aircraft; and (C) procurement of new design aircraft such as the FA- 18E/F, the A-X, the EA-X, and the F-22 aircraft. (3) The assessment shall include an examination of the shares of their respective annual budgets that the Air Force and the Navy have historically devoted to toctical aviation modernization programs and the efTect of currently planned tactical aircraft modernization programs on those historical budget shares. (4) As part of the assessment, the Secretary shall postulate the force structure for toctical aviation over the next 20 years and shall indicate the most cost effective modernization plans for that force structure. (5) As part of the assessment, the Secretary shall evaluate for each of the aircraft programs specified in subsection (b) alternative manufacturing methods that would produce the aircraft efficiently in a reduced quantity and at a significantly lower annual rate than the quantity and rate currently projected by the Department for the aircraft. Such analysis shall show the effect of lower production rates on unit costs at 25 percent, 50 percent, and 100 percent of the currently projected maximum annual rates of production.

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