OPERATIONAL SUPPORT AIRCRAFT.

SEC. 154. OPERATIONAL SUPPORT AIRCRAFT. (a) Limitation.—None of the funds appropriated for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1994 may be obligated for a procure-107 STAT. 1579ment of any operational support aircraft without full and open competition (as defined in section 2302(3) of title 10, United States Code) unless the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology certifies to the congressional defense committees that the procurement is within an exception set forth in section 2304(c) of title 10, United States Code. (b) Airlift Study.—Of the funds appropriated pursuant to section 106, not more than $50,000,000 may be obligated to procure operational support airlift aircraft. None of those funds may be obligated until 60 days after the date on which the study required by subsection (c) is transmitted to the congressional defense committees. (c) Study Required.—The Secretary of Defense shall undertake a study of operational support airlift aircraft and administrative transport airlift aircraft operated by reserve components of the Department of Defense. (d) Study Requirements.—The study required by subsection (c) shall include the following: (1) An inventory of all operational support airlift aircraft and administrative transport airlift aircraft. (2) The peacetime utilization rate of such aircraft. (3) The wartime mission of such aircraft. (4) The need for such aircraft for the future base force. (5) The current age, projected service life, and programmed retirement date for such aircraft. (6) A list of aircraft programmed in the current future-years defense program to be purchased or to be transferred from the active components to the reserve components. (7) The funds programmed in the current future-years defense program for procurement of replacement operational support and administrative transport airlift aircraft, and the acquisition strategy proposed for each type of replacement aircraft so programmed. (e) Definition.—For purposes of this section, the term “future-years defense program” means the future-years defense program submitted to Congress pursuant to section 221 of title 10, United States Code.