Sec. 885. Report on small purchases of critical minerals and magnets
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Not later than 180 days after the enactment of this section, the Director of the Defense Contract Management Agency shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report detailing the dollar amount of covered materials manufactured in China and Russia and acquired by the Department of Defense through contracts valued at or below the simplified acquisition threshold during the period beginning on January 1, 2020, and ending on the date of the submission of such report to the congressional defense committees. The report required by subsection
(a)shall include— the total value of contracts under which covered materials were acquired by the Department of Defense during the period covered by the report; the total value of contracts under which covered materials manufactured in China or Russia were acquired by the Department of Defense during the period covered by the report; the total value of contracts under which covered materials were acquired by the Department of Defense during the period covered by the report for which the Director could not determine whether the covered materials were manufactured in China or Russia; for each covered material, the value of the covered material acquired by the Department of Defense during the period covered by the report that was manufactured in China or Russia; and any recommendations from the Director for improving the ability of the Department of Defense to track the manufacturer of covered materials. Each value described in subsection
(b)contained in the report required by subsection
(a)shall be disaggregated by acquisitions made by the Defense Logistics Agency and acquisitions made by other elements of the Department of Defense. For the purposes of this section, the Director shall regard manufacturing as being the main value-add step in the supply chain in which raw minerals are initially combined into a metallic, alloyed, or magnetic form and shall not count late-stage cutting and finishing processes or distribution as the critical manufacturing step. In this section, the term covered material means— samarium-cobalt magnets; neodymium-iron-boron magnets; tungsten metal powder; tungsten heavy alloy; tantalum metals and alloys; aluminum-nickel-cobalt magnets; or any other metals listed in section 4863(l) of title 10, United States Code.