Sec. 1695. REPORT ON INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR LARGE SOLID ROCKET MOTORS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES

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## SEC. 1695 REPORT ON INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR LARGE SOLID ROCKET MOTORS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES ###

(a)Report Not later than March 1, 2018, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on options to ensure a robust domestic industrial base for large solid rocket motors, including with respect to the critical technologies, subsystems, components, and materials within and relating to such rocket motors. ###

(b)Matters Included The report under subsection

(a)shall include the following: ####

(1)An assessment of options that would sustain not less than two domestic suppliers for— #####

(A)large solid rocket motors; #####

(B)small liquid-fueled rocket engines; #####

(C)aeroshells for reentry vehicles (or reentry bodies); #####

(D)strategic radiation-hardened microelectronics; and #####

(E)any other critical technologies, subsystems, components, and materials within and relating to large solid rocket motors that the Secretary determines appropriate. ####

(2)With respect to the sustainment of domestic suppliers as described in paragraph (1), the views of the Secretary on— #####

(A)such sustainment of not less than two domestic suppliers for each item specified in subparagraphs

(A)through

(E)of such paragraph; #####

(B)the risks within the industrial base for each such item; #####

(C)the estimated costs for such sustainment; and #####

(D)the opportunities to ensure or promote competition within the industrial base for each such item. ###

(c)Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— ####

(1)the Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and ####

(2)the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.