1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fostering Leadership and Inclusion by Growing HBCU Training Act of 2020 or the FLIGHT Act . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The Fiscal Year 2018 Population Representation in the Military Services report found that while minorities comprise 38 percent of the national population, they comprise only 23 percent of the active component commissioned officer corps. (2) The Fiscal Year 2018 Population Representation in the Military Services report further found that African Americans only comprised 8 percent of the active component commissioned officer corps, while more than 12 percent of the general population is African American. (3) The Fiscal Year 2018 Population Representation in the Military Services report further found that African-American and Hispanic cadets were recipients of a Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) scholarship at a rate of half of their representation in the general population. (4) A 2018 RAND study titled Understanding Demographic Differences in Undergraduate Pilot Training Attrition found that [candidates for pilot training from Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program] with more hours of flying experience were also less likely to be eliminated from Initial Flight Training and Primary Pilot Training . (5) In 2020, Air Education and Training Command, in partnership with the University of Texas-San Antonio, conducted a study that reinforced, including within the Pilot Candidate Selection Method, the number of flight hours a candidate accumulates before attending undergraduate pilot training. (6) The United States Air Force has acknowledged that flight hours . . . can be difficult to obtain for potential candidates depending on their socio-economic background . 3. Pilot programs in connection with SROTC units and CSPI programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and minority institutions (a) Pilot programs required The Secretary of Defense shall carry out the pilot programs as follows: (1) A pilot program, with