; and (2) the Senate urges the Secretary of the Navy and the contractor team to comply with congressional intent and applicable law with appropriate expediency to bolster the Navy’s fleet of strike fighter aircraft and avoid further disruption to the defense industrial base. D Air Force programs 131. Limitations and minimum inventory requirement relating to RQ–4 aircraft Section 9062 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (l) (1) During the period beginning on the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 and ending on September 30, 2028, the Secretary of the Air Force may not— (A) retire an RQ–4 aircraft; (B) reduce funding for unit personnel or weapon system sustainment activities for RQ–4 aircraft in a manner that presumes future congressional authority to divest such aircraft; (C) keep an RQ–4 aircraft in a status considered excess to the requirements of the possessing command and awaiting disposition instructions (commonly referred to as XJ status); or (D) decrease the total aircraft inventory of RQ–4 aircraft below 10 aircraft. (2) The prohibition under paragraph (1) shall not apply to individual RQ–4 aircraft that the Secretary of the Air Force determines, on a case-by-case basis, to be no longer mission capable and uneconomical to repair because of aircraft accidents, mishaps, or excessive material degradation and non-airworthiness status of certain aircraft. . 132. Limitation on divestiture of T–1A training aircraft No divestiture of any T–1A training aircraft may occur until the Chief of Staff of the Air Force submits to the congressional defense committees a certification of— (1) the fleet-wide implementation of the Undergraduate Pilot Training 2.5 curriculum and the effect of such implementation on the undergraduate pilot training pipeline