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Reports.

PUBLIC LAW 109–163—JAN. 6, 2006

(E) Adjustments in the force structure to meet homeland defense requirements. (F) The potential for simultaneous homeland defense activities and major combat operations. (G) Potential changes in requirements for intratheater airlift or sealift capabilities. (H) The capability of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet to provide adequate augmentation in meeting global mobility requirements. (d) SUBMISSION OF ASSESSMENT OF INTERTHEATER AIRLIFT REQUIREMENTS.— (1) INCLUSION IN QUADRENNIAL DEFENSE REVIEW.—Subject to paragraph (2), the assessment of the intertheater airlift capabilities required to support the national defense strategy required by subsection (c)(1) shall be carried out as part of the quadrennial defense review under section 118 of title 10, United States Code, in 2005 and in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d)(9) of that section, and the report under subsection (c)(1) on that assessment shall be included in the report on that quadrennial defense review submitted to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives with the budget of the President for fiscal year 2007 (as submitted under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code). (2) ALTERNATIVE SUBMISSION.—If the Secretary of Defense determines that, because of the date required by law for the submission of the report on the quadrennial defense review referred to in paragraph (1), the assessment of the intertheater airlift capabilities required to support the national defense strategy required by subsection (c)(1) cannot be carried out as part of the quadrennial defense review referred to in paragraph (1), the Secretary may submit the report of such assessment not later than 45 days after the date of the submission of that review pursuant to section 118(d) of title 10, United States Code. In that case, the Secretary shall submit the report of such assessment to the congressional defense committees. (e) MAINTENANCE OF C–17 AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION LINE.—If the Secretary of Defense is unable to make the certification specified in subsection (b), the Secretary of the Air Force should procure sufficient C–17 aircraft to maintain the C–17 aircraft production line at not less than the minimum sustaining rate until sufficient flight test data regarding improved C–5 aircraft mission capability rates as a result of the Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program and Avionics Modernization Program have been obtained to determine the validity of assumptions concerning the C–5 aircraft used in the Mobility Capabilities Study. SEC. 132. PROHIBITION ON RETIREMENT OF KC–135E AIRCRAFT.

The Secretary of the Air Force may not retire any KC–135E aircraft of the Air Force in fiscal year 2006. SEC. 133. PROHIBITION ON RETIREMENT OF F–117 AIRCRAFT DURING FISCAL YEAR 2006.

The Secretary of the Air Force may not retire any F–117 Nighthawk attack aircraft during fiscal year 2006.

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