The following is the Pentagon’s aviation plan, dated May 2013.
From the report:
Summary of the Annual Plan and Certification
This plan was developed based on the FY14 President’s Budget submission and does not include the effects of sequestration / Budget Control Act funding decreases. The Department is in the process of a Strategic Choices and Management Review (SCMR) to resolve these impacts.
As such, changes to this plan are probable in next year’s report. Moreover, sequestration is already having an adverse effect on readiness across multiple mission areas, including aviation.
Changes in technology and organizational structure make categorizing aircraft into bins of like capability increasingly difficult.
However, this aviation force structure plan provides the diverse mix of aircraft needed to carry out the eleven missions identified above. The capabilities provided by aircraft identified in this plan reflect five principal investment objectives identified
– Meet the demand for persistent, multirole intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
(ISR) capabilities;
– Provide sufficient enabler capability and capacity;
– Acquire fifth-generation fighter/attack aircraft while maintaining sufficient inventory
capacity;
– Modernize long-range strike (LRS) capabilities; and
– Emphasize modemization and readiness.
The FY 14-43 aviation plan is consistent with the tenets of the January 2012 Defense Strategic Guidance; it meets the national security requirements of the United States. The Department’s FY14 budget request and the associated FY14-18 FYDP provide the requisite funding to implement the aviation investment plan through FY 18 for all programs of record.
