AIR FORCE BOMBER FORCE STRUCTURE.

SEC. 1032. AIR FORCE BOMBER FORCE STRUCTURE. (a) Limitation.—None of the funds available to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2002 may be obligated or expended for retiring or dismantling any of the 93 B-1B Lancer bombers in service as of June 1, 2001, or for transferring or reassigning any of those aircraft from the unit or facility to which assigned as of that date, until 15 days after the Secretary of the Air Force submits to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report on the Air Force bomber force structure. 115 STAT. 1216 (b) Matters To Be Included.—The report under subsection (a) shall set forth the following: (1) The Air Force plan for the modernization of the B-1B aircraft fleet, including a transition plan for implementation of that modernization plan and a description of the basing options for the aircraft in that fleet. (2) The amount and type of bomber force structure in the Air Force appropriate to meet the requirements of the national security strategy of the United States. (3) Specifications of new missions to be assigned to the National Guard units that currently fly B-l aircraft and the transition of those units and their facilities from the current B-1 mission to their future missions. (4) A description of the potential effect of the proposed consolidation and reduction of the B-l fleet on other National Guard units in the affected States. (5) A justification of the cost and projected savings of consolidating and reducing the B-1 fleet. (c) Amount and Type of Bomber Force Structure Defined.—In this section, the term “amount and type of bomber force structure” means the number of B-2 aircraft, B-52 aircraft, and B-1 aircraft that are required to carry out the current national security strategy.