Sec. 1699. Industrial base for large solid rocket motors and related technologies
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The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, shall develop a plan to ensure a robust domestic industrial base for large solid rocket motors, including with respect to the critical technologies, subsystems, components, and materials within and relating to such rocket motors. The Secretary shall develop the plan under subsection
(a)in a manner that, if carried out, sustains not less than two domestic suppliers for each of the following: Large solid rocket motors. Small liquid-fueled rocket engines. Aeroshells for reentry vehicles (or reentry bodies). Strategic radiation-hardened microelectronics. Any other critical technologies, subsystems, components, and materials within and relating to large solid rocket motors that the Secretary determines appropriate. Not later than February 1, 2018, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report that includes the plan under subsection (a). With respect to the sustainment of domestic suppliers as described in subsection (b), the report under paragraph
(1)shall include the views of the Secretary on the following: Such sustainment of not less than two domestic suppliers for each item specified in paragraphs
(1)through
(5)of such subsection. The risks within the industrial base for each such item. The estimated costs for such sustainment. The opportunities to ensure or promote competition within the industrial base for each such item.