Sec. 833. Plan to reduce reliance on supplies and materials from adversaries in the defense supply chain
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The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, shall develop and implement a plan to— partner with covered private sector entities and partner countries and allies of the United States to reduce the reliance of the United States on covered supplies and materials obtained from sources located in geographic areas controlled by foreign adversaries; and mitigate the risks to national security and the defense supply chain arising from the reliance of the United States on covered supplies and materials that cannot be acquired in sufficient quantities to meet the needs of major end items without procuring covered supplies and materials from sources located in geographic areas controlled by foreign adversaries.
The Secretary of Defense shall consider the determinations made under paragraph
(3)when developing the plan under paragraph (1). Before developing the plan under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with Secretary of State, shall determine— the covered supplies and materials for which a source is located in a geographic area controlled by a foreign adversary; the covered supplies and materials described in subparagraph
(A)that may be acquired from sources located domestically or in geographic areas controlled by partner countries or allies of the United States in sufficient quantities to— reduce the reliance of the Department on covered supplies and materials described in subparagraph (A); and increase the resiliency of the defense supply chain; the difference in cost to acquire covered supplies and materials described in subparagraph
(A)from sources located domestically or in geographic areas controlled by partner countries or allies of the United States, if available; and the covered supplies and materials described in subparagraph
(A)that cannot be acquired in sufficient quantities to meet the needs of major end items without sources located in geographic areas controlled by foreign adversaries. Not later than two years after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report describing— the determinations made under subsection (a)(3); the plan required under subsection (a)(1). In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means the following: The Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives. The Committee on Armed Services of the Senate. The Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. The Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. The term covered private sector entity means a private sector entity able to provide, or facilitate the acquisition of, covered supplies and materials from domestic sources or sources located in geographic areas controlled by partner countries or allies of the United States. Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term covered supplies and materials — means— critical safety systems and subsystems; assemblies and subassemblies integral to a system or subsystem; and repair, maintenance, logistics support, and overhaul services for systems, subsystems, assemblies, subassemblies, and parts integral to a systems; and includes systems, subsystems, assemblies, subassemblies, and parts described in clause
(i)acquired with respect to commercial items (as defined under section 2.101 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations) and non-commercial items. The term covered supplies and materials does not include any strategic and critical materials (as defined under section 12 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act ( 50 U.S.C. 98h–3 )) with respect to which the Secretary includes an appropriate reduction plan in a report required under section 14 of such Act ( 50 U.S.C. 98h–5 ). The term foreign adversary has the meaning given such term in section 8(c) of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 ( 47 U.S.C. 1607(c) ). The term major end item means an item subject to a unique item-level traceability requirement at any time in the life cycle of such item under Department of Defense Instruction 8320.04, titled Item Unique Identification
(IUID)Standards for Tangible Personal Property and dated September 3, 2015, or any successor instruction.
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- 50 USC 98h–3
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