Sec. 850. Defense industrial revitalization
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall seek to enter into voluntary agreements with senior executives of traditional and nontraditional defense contractors, including executives from the supplier base, to advise the Secretary on the health of the defense industrial base, including— critical shortages and impediments to production of critical munitions and other war materials, including single points of failure in the production of Department of Defense weapons systems and a plan to bolster each source by diversifying the supply chain; factors that limit the production rates required for critical munitions and weapons systems; workforce issues across the defense industrial base; deconfliction of efforts across the Department of Defense and industry to improve defense industrial base capacity and efficiency; and a process and mechanism for traditional and nontraditional defense contractors to share data on capital expenditures with the Department of Defense.
Not later than June 1, 2025, the Secretary, working in consultation with the executives described in subsection (a), shall provide a classified briefing with an unclassified summary to the congressional defense committees on Department of Defense planning assumptions regarding the total or partial mobilization of the economy of the United States for a protracted conventional global war in the event of a national emergency. The briefing required under paragraph
(1)shall include— a description of the national emergency planning assumptions upon which the Department bases such economic mobilization plans, including a range of cases concerning the triggers for mobilization and the consumption of materiel and munitions expected in each case; a description of the economic mobilization objectives of the Department, to include production goals and the desired timelines to implement those goals, once such mobilization begins; the number and kind of current economic mobilization plans and the most recent dates on which such plans were updated; a projection of the anticipated demands for material, capital, and labor necessary to meet the objectives and timelines described in subparagraph (B), once such mobilization begins; an analysis of the degree to which the Department and the defense industrial base is capable of meeting the objectives and timelines described in subparagraph (B); and an analysis on whether the United States would be well positioned to replenish its forces after any emergency faster than or at a comparable rate to adversaries, given the situation described in subparagraph (E). The Secretary shall direct the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment to lead the completion of interim economic mobilization plans by not later than December 31, 2025, and detailed economic mobilization plans by not later than June 30, 2026, for the purposes of carrying out the total or partial mobilization of the economy of the United States for a sustained conventional global war, in the event of a national emergency. These plans should be informed by the executives described in subsection (a). The plans required under paragraph
(1)should include, at a minimum, the following: The information described in subparagraphs
(A)though
(F)of subsection (b)(2). An assessment of the percentage of material, capital, and labor needs identified pursuant to subsection (b)(2)(D) that the Department is able to meet on the date of the completion of the detailed mobilization plans and the timelines for meeting such percentage. An examination of whether foreign sources of strategic and critical materials and transportation from those sources to the United States or other locations of defense production are militarily secure in the event of an emergency and an assessment of whether those countries are likely to continue supplying such strategic and critical materials in the event of conflict. Upon completion of the detailed mobilization plans required under paragraph (1), and every 180 days thereafter, the Secretary shall notify the congressional defense committees that the plans have been completed and shall make a classified summary of the plans available to the congressional defense committees that includes— the degree to which the Secretary considers the industrial base is capable of meeting the objectives and timelines described in subsection (b)(2)(B); and the percentage of material, capital, and labor needs identified in subsection (b)(2)(D) that the Department is able to meet on the date of the report and on the timelines for meeting such percentage.