Sec. 303. Federal Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Survey
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The Committee shall— survey, examine, and analyze the overall context of the manufacturing and industrial innovation efforts of the Federal Government, including the mission, goals, personnel, funding, organization, facilities, and activities of those efforts; and in carrying out subparagraph (A), take adequate account of the interests of individuals and groups that may be affected by Federal manufacturing and industrial innovation programs, including, as appropriate, by consulting with those individuals and groups.
In carrying out the functions of the Committee under this section, the Committee shall consider the need for— organizational reform, including institutional realignment or establishment designed to place within a single cabinet-level department (either within an existing agency or a new cabinet-level department) with missions that are primarily or solely devoted to manufacturing and industrial innovation; improvements in existing programs and policies of manufacturing and industrial innovation of the Federal Government, including consideration of the appropriate role to be played by the private sector; improved manufacturing and industrial innovation assessment in the executive branch of the Federal Government; improved methods for effecting development of manufacturing capabilities, especially capabilities arising from Federally funded research; stimulating more effective Federal-State and Federal-industry liaison and cooperation in manufacturing and industrial innovation policy, including the formation of Federal-State mechanisms for the mutual pursuit of the shared goal of growing and improving manufacturing; reforming any Federal regulation or administrative practice or procedure that may have the effect of slowing technological innovation or opportunities for the use of technological innovation; improvements to Federal research and development activities to make those activities more responsive to industrial needs; ways of strengthening the competency of academic institutions in the United States for education and workforce training to better foster manufacturing and industrial innovation, capacity, and diversity; ways of effectively integrating manufacturing and industrial innovation into the national and international policies of the United States; manufacturing and industrial innovation designed to meet community and individual needs; maintaining the quality and quantity of adequate manufacturing and industrial innovation manpower; improved systems for planning and analyzing Federal manufacturing and industrial innovation programs; long-range study, analysis, and planning with respect to the application of manufacturing and industrial innovation to major national problems or concerns; and identifying unnecessary or duplicative regulations.
Not later than 1 year after the date on which every member of the Committee has been appointed under section 302(a), the Committee shall submit to the President an interim report on the activities and operations of the Committee, as of the date on which the interim report is submitted. Not later than 2 years after the date on which every member of the Committee has been appointed under section 302(a), the Committee shall submit to the President a final report on the activities, findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the Committee, including any necessary supporting data and material.
Not later than 60 days after the date on which the President receives the final report required under paragraph (1)(B), the President shall submit to Congress— the interim report submitted under paragraph (1)(A); the final report submitted under paragraph (1)(B); and any comments on, observations of, and recommendations with respect to the reports described in this paragraph that the President determines appropriate.