HR6611-119

What This Bill Does

The F-47 Program Total Force Act of 2025 requires the Secretary of the Air Force to report to the congressional defense committees by March 1, 2027 on the F-47 advanced fighter aircraft program. The report must describe system requirements, employment concepts, projected costs, schedule, and funding needs across the program objective memorandum period for fiscal years 2028 through 2034. It must explain the acquisition strategy for the F-47 program of record, including whether to use a middle tier acquisition pathway or major capability acquisition pathway under DoD Instruction 5000.85. It must also provide a fielding strategy with estimated force-structure requirements, strategic basing considerations, military construction needs, personnel training requirements, and a strategy for integrating Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve units into F-47 operations. The report is unclassified but may include a classified annex.

Who Benefits and How

Congressional defense committees benefit from earlier visibility into the F-47 program cost, schedule, acquisition path, basing, and Total Force integration plan. The Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve benefit if the report forces planning for their force structure, association, training, and mobilization models. Defense aerospace contractors and military construction firms may benefit indirectly if the report clarifies future acquisition, basing, and infrastructure needs.

Who Bears the Burden and How

The Department of the Air Force must gather program requirements, cost and schedule data, acquisition-path analysis, fielding assumptions, basing options, military construction estimates, personnel training plans, and Guard and Reserve integration strategies. Program offices may need to prepare classified annex material. Congressional defense committees then must review the report and use it in oversight of the fiscal years 2028 through 2034 program plan.

Key Provisions

• Requires an Air Force report on the F-47 advanced fighter aircraft program by March 1, 2027.
• Requires system requirements, employment concepts, projected costs, schedule, and funding needs for fiscal years 2028 through 2034.
• Requires acquisition-strategy analysis, including middle tier acquisition and major capability acquisition pathways.
• Requires a fielding strategy covering force structure, basing, military construction, personnel training, and Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve integration.