Sec. 102. Sense of Congress
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It is the sense of Congress that manufacturing and industrial innovation should include contributing to the following priority goals: Taking concrete national action to rebuild, restore, and expand domestic manufacturing capabilities, skills, and production capacity, including world-class infrastructure. Rebuilding the industrial innovation commons, including common resources, technical knowledge, and entrepreneurial opportunities associated with technical concepts. Supporting domestic supply chains.
Expanding production capabilities, cooperation, and knowledge. Revitalizing communities harmed by historical and poorly conceived, implemented, and enforced regulatory and trade policies. Developing a strategy for innovation and establishment of manufacturing industries of the future, including adoption and production of Industry 4.0 technology to support domestic economic expansion, particularly manufacturers with fewer than 800 employees, and in traditionally underserved communities.
Contributing to national health and security and emergency readiness and resilience, including addressing environmental concerns. Strengthening the economy of the United States and promoting full employment in high-quality, high-wage jobs through useful industrial and technological innovation. Cultivating, utilizing, and enhancing academic and industrial thought-leadership with practical workforce development and training to the fullest extent possible. Implementing a national strategy that identifies and prioritizes high growth, high value-added industries, products, and components of national importance to the long-term economic, environmental, national security, and public health of the United States.
In view of the findings under section 101, it is the sense of Congress that the Federal Government and public and private institutions in the United States should pursue a national policy of manufacturing and industrial innovation that includes the following principles: Ensuring global leadership in advanced manufacturing technologies critical to the long-term economic, environmental, national security, and public health of the United States. Restoring and strengthening the industrial commons of the United States, including— essential engineering and production skills; infrastructure for research and development, standardization, and metrology; process innovations and manufacturing know-how; equipment; and suppliers that provide the foundation for the innovativeness and competitiveness of all manufacturers in the United States.
Strengthening the technical, financial, and educational commons and assets necessary to ensure that the United States is the best positioned Nation for the creation and production of advanced technologies and products emerging from national research and development investments. Capitalizing on the scientific and technological advances produced by researchers and innovators in the United States by developing capable and responsive institutions focused on advancing the technology and manufacturing readiness levels of those advances.
Supporting the discovery, invention, start-up, ramp-up, scale-up, and transition of new products and manufacturing technologies to full-scale production in the United States. Addressing the evolving needs of manufacturers for a diverse set of workers with the necessary skills, training, and expertise as manufacturers in the United States increase high-quality, high-wage employment opportunities. Improving and expanding manufacturing engineering and technology offerings within institutions of higher education, including 4-year engineering technology programs at polytechnic institutes and secondary schools, to be more closely aligned with the needs of manufacturers in the United States and the goal of strengthening the long-term competitiveness of such manufacturing.
Working collaboratively with Federal agencies, State and local governments, Tribal governments, regional authorities, institutions of higher education, economic development organizations, and labor organizations that primarily represent workers in manufacturing to leverage their knowledge, resources, applied research, experimental development, and programs to foster manufacturing in the United States so as to anticipate and prepare for emergencies and global, national, and regional supply chain disruptions, including disruptions brought on and exacerbated by changing environmental and other circumstances.
Recognizing that, as changing circumstances require the periodic revision and adaptation of this title, Congress is responsible for— identifying and interpreting the changes in those circumstances as they occur; and affecting subsequent changes to this title, as appropriate. It is the sense of Congress that, in order to expedite and facilitate the implementation of the national policy described in subsection (b)— Federal procurement policy should— prioritize and encourage domestic manufacturing and robust domestic supply chains; support means of expanding domestic manufacturing job creation; enhance manufacturing workforce preparedness; prioritize the development of means to support diversity and inclusion throughout the manufacturing and industrial sector; promote the consideration of, and support to, minority-owned and women-owned manufacturing contractors of the Federal Government; and support the ingenuity and entrepreneurship of the United States by providing enhanced attention to manufacturing startups and small businesses in the United States;
Federal trade and monetary policies should— ensure that global competition in manufacturing is free, open, and fair; prioritize policies and investments that support domestic manufacturing growth and innovation; and not be utilized to offshore poor manufacturing working conditions or destructive manufacturing environmental practices; Federal policies and practices should reasonably prioritize competitiveness for manufacturing and industrial innovation efforts in the United States, but should not sacrifice the quality of employment opportunities, including the health and safety of workers, pay, and benefits;
Federal manufacturing and industrial innovation policies, practices, and priorities should reasonably improve environmental sustainability within the manufacturing industry, while minimizing economic impact; Federal patent policies should be developed, based on uniform principles, which have as their objective to preserve incentives for industrial technological innovation and the application of procedures that will continue to assure the full use of beneficial technology to serve the public;
Federal efforts should promote and support a strong system of intellectual property rights to include trade secrets, through both protection of intellectual property rights and enforcement against intellectual property theft, and broad engagement to limit foreign efforts to illegally or inappropriately utilize compromised intellectual property; closer relationships should be encouraged among practitioners of scientific and technological research and development and those who apply those foundations to domestic commercial manufacturing; the full use of the contributions of manufacturing and industrial innovation to support State and local government goals should be encouraged; formal recognition should be accorded to those persons, the manufacturing and industrial innovation achievements of which contributed significantly to the national welfare; and departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Federal Government should establish procedures to ensure among them the systematic interchange of data, efforts, and findings developed under their programs.
To implement the national policy described in subsection (b), it is the sense of Congress— that— the Federal Government should maintain integrated policy planning elements in the executive branch that assist agencies in such branch in— identifying problems and objectives that could be addressed or enhanced by public policy; mobilizing industrial and innovative manufacturing resources for national security and emergency response purposes; securing appropriate funding for programs so identified by the President or the Chief Manufacturing Officer; anticipating future concerns to which industrial and innovative manufacturing can contribute and devise industrial strategies for such purposes; and reviewing systematically the manufacturing and industrial innovation policy and programs of the Federal Government and recommending legislative amendments to those policies and programs when needed; and the elements described in subparagraph
(A)should include a data collection, analysis, and advisory mechanism within the Executive Office of the President to provide the President with independent, expert judgment and assessments of the complex manufacturing and industrial features involved; and that it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to— promote prompt, effective, reliable, and systematic dissemination of manufacturing and industrial information— by such methods as may be appropriate; and through efforts conducted by nongovernmental organizations, including industrial groups, technical societies, and educational entities; coordinate and develop a manufacturing industrial strategy and facilitate the close coupling of this manufacturing strategy with commercial manufacturing application; and enhance domestic development and utilization of such industrial information by prioritization of efforts with manufacturers, the production of which takes place in the United States.