Sec. 345. Pilot program on digital optimization of organic industrial base maintenance and repair operations
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Beginning not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, The Secretary of the Defense shall initiate a pilot program under which the Secretary shall provide for the digitization of the facilities and operations of at least one covered depot. In carrying out the pilot program under this section, the Secretary shall provide for each of the following at the covered depot or depots at which the Secretary carries out the program: The delivery of a digital twin model of the maintenance, repair, and remanufacturing infrastructure and activities.
The modeling and simulation of optimized facility configuration, logistics systems, and processes. The analysis of material flow and resource use to achieve key performance metrics for all levels of maintenance and repair. An assessment of automated, advanced, and additive manufacturing technologies that could improve maintenance, repair, and remanufacturing operations. The identification of investments necessary to achieve the efficiencies identified by the digital twin model required under paragraph (1).
Not later than 60 days after the completion of the digital twin model and associated analysis, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on the pilot program. Such report shall include— a description of the efficiencies identified under the pilot program; a description of the infrastructure, workforce, and capital equipment investments necessary to achieve such efficiencies; the plan of the Secretary to undertake such investments; and the assessment of the Secretary of the potential applicability of the findings of the pilot program to other covered depots.
In this section, the term covered depot includes any depot covered under section 2476(e) of title 10, United States Code, except for the following: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Maine. Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii. Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Washington. Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia.