Sec. 880. Review and assessment of non-domestic additive manufacturing equipment and associated software supplying the defense industrial base
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Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, in coordination with each Secretary of a military department, shall seek to enter into an agreement with a federally funded research and development center to conduct an independent review, analysis, and assessment of the use of non-domestic additive manufacturing equipment and associated software programs that supply components or capability to the United States defense industrial base and the effect of such use. The agreement described in subsection
(a)shall require that the federally funded research and development center that is party to such agreement submit to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment a report on the findings of the review, assessment, and analysis not later than one year after the date on which the center entered into such agreement. The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment shall submit such report to the congressional defense committees upon receipt of such report. The report described in paragraph
(1)shall include the following elements: An assessment of manufacturers in the United States defense industrial base using non-domestic additive manufacturing equipment. An identification of additive manufacturing equipment, including 3D printers, that are of Chinese or Russian origin, and that are in the supply chain of the United States defense industrial base. A review of non-domestic additive manufacturing equipment suppliers that work with adversarial foreign militaries and have a presence in the United States defense industrial base. A security assessment of intellectual property risks of software programs associated with additive manufacturing equipment that are provided to— the United States defense industrial base; and additive manufacturing equipment suppliers based in adversarial foreign countries. The report described in paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, in coordination with each Secretary of a military department, shall provide to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a briefing on the plan to assess the United States defense industrial base for the use and effect of non-domestic additive manufacturing equipment and associated software programs.