Sec. 805. Assessments of industrial base capabilities and capacity
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The Secretary of Defense shall define intelligence and other information requirements, sources, and organizational responsibilities for assessing foreign adversary technological and industrial bases and conducting comparative analyses of such technological and industrial bases. The requirements, sources, and responsibilities shall include— examining the competitive advantages foreign adversaries are pursuing, including with respect to regulation, raw materials, educational capacity, labor, and capital accessibility; assessing relative cost, speed of product development, age and value of the installed capital base, leadership’s technical competence and agility, nationally imposed inhibiting conditions, the availability of human and material resources, and the burdens of government oversight; a temporal evaluation of the competitive strengths and weaknesses of United States industry, including manufacturing surge capacity, versus the directed priorities and capabilities of foreign adversary governments; and assessing any other issues that the Secretary of Defense determines appropriate.
The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Policy shall incorporate inputs pursuant to subsection
(a)as part of a methodology to continuously assess domestic and foreign industries, markets, and companies of significance to military and industrial advantage to identify supply chain vulnerabilities. Not later than March 15, 2021, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on efforts to establish the continuous assessment activity required under subsections
(a)and (b). The report submitted under paragraph
(1)shall include a consideration of whether it would be appropriate to task some of the assessment work to an organization independent of the Department, and any recommendations regarding which organization should perform such work.