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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Update: Air Force puts future basing plans for Davis-Monthan AFB, Nellis AFB on hold pending NDAA outcomePublished July 23, 2021
                    
                    
                    Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs
            **WASHINGTON (AFNS) --**The Department of the Air Force announced today it is pausing plans related to aircraft basing decisions at **Davis-Monthan Air Force Base**, Arizona and **Nellis AFB**, Nevada that are dependent upon the requirement to retire 42 **A-10 Thunderbolt II**s.
The announcement comes as the department awaits congressional action that will be reflected in fiscal year 2022’s National Defense Authorization Act.
In support of modernization efforts, the Air Force announced June 30 for its plans to establish a center of excellence for close air support and rescue missions at Davis-Monthan AFB by transferring the A-10 Thunderbolt II and **HH-60 Pave Hawk** weapons schools and test squadrons to the Arizona base beginning in fiscal year 2022 – a move contingent on congressional approval of the President Biden’s budget request to retire 42 older A-10 aircraft.
In addition, the movement of these squadrons and personnel from Nellis AFB would free additional range and base capacity necessary to test and train warfighters in fifth-generation aircraft and establish Nellis AFB as a fifth-generation center of excellence.
According to Air Force officials, however, these plans are on hold pending the outcome of congressional decisions in the FY-22 NDAA.
The Department of the Air Force’s fiscal year 2022 budget request is seeking the retirement of 42 A-10 aircraft, 35 of which are at Davis-Monthan AFB. Pending congressional approval, the funds made available from retiring these older A-10s would create the fiscal and manpower flexibility required to design and field the future force needed to meet combatant commander requirements.
Although the Air Force is seeking to retire 42 A-10s, the service plans to modernize and keep 218 combat-capable A-10s within the fighter fleet into the 2030s. The A-10 Thunderbolt Advanced Continuation Kitting wing replacement contract, which was awarded in August 2019, included the purchase of wings for 218 aircraft. The Air Force has invested $880 million in A-10 re-winging and avionics modernization efforts.AFWN 



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