Sec. 846. Improving implementation of policy pertaining to the national technology and industrial base
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In developing the strategy required by section 2501 of title 10, United States Code, carrying out the program for analysis of the national technology and industrial base required by section 2503 of such title, and performing the assessments required under section 2505 of such title, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment and the Under Secretary of Research and Engineering, shall assess the research and development, manufacturing, and production capabilities of the national technology and industrial base (as defined in section 2500 of such title) and other allies and partner countries.
The map of the industrial base described in section 2504 of title 10, United States Code, shall highlight specific technologies, companies, laboratories, and factories of, or located in, the national technology and industrial base of potential value to current and future Department of Defense plans and programs. Section 2440 of title 10, United States Code is amended— by amending the section heading to read as follows: ; National technology and industrial base plans, policy, and guidance striking The Secretary and inserting the following:
The Secretary ; and by adding at the end the following new subsection: The Secretary of Defense shall develop and promulgate acquisition policy and guidance to the service acquisition executives, the heads of the appropriate Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities, and relevant program managers. Such policy and guidance shall be germane to the use of the research and development, manufacturing, and production capabilities identified pursuant to chapter 148 of this title and the technologies, companies, laboratories, and factories in specific Department of Defense research and development, international cooperative research, procurement, and sustainment activities. .
The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 144 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking the item relating to section 2440 and inserting the following new item: 2440. National technology and industrial base plans, policy, and guidance. . Section 2502(c) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in paragraph (2), by striking and at the end; in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new paragraph: collaboration with government officials of member countries of the national technology and industrial base in order to strengthen the national technology and industrial base. .
The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the heads of any relevant Federal agencies, shall establish a process to consider the inclusion of additional member countries in the national technology and industrial base. The process developed under paragraph
(1)shall include an analysis of— the national security and foreign policy impacts, costs, and benefits to the United States and allied countries of the inclusion of any such additional member countries in the national technology and industrial base; the economic impacts, costs, and benefits to entities within the United States and allied countries of the inclusion of any such additional member countries into the national technology and industrial base, including an assessment of— specific shortfalls in the technological and industrial capacities of current member countries of the national technology and industrial base that would be addressed by inclusion of such additional member countries; specific areas in the industrial bases of current member countries of the national technology and industrial base that would likely be impacted by additional competition if such additional member countries were included in the national technology and industrial base; and costs to reconstitute capability should such capability be lost to competition; and other factors as determined relevant by the Secretary. For the purposes of the process developed under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense may recommend the inclusion of an additional member country in the national technology and industrial base only with the concurrence of the Secretary of State.