Title XVIII — Revitalization of the Defense Industrial Base

Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations · 49 sections

Subtitle A — Provisions to Protect and Strengthen Supply Chains

1801.Requirements for information relating to supply chain risk 1802.Oversight of specialty metals procurements under exception relating to agreements with foreign governments 1803.Critical materials: tiered sourcing restrictions and requirements 1804.Changes with respect to the Federal Acquisition Security Council 1805.Modifications to strategy to eliminate sourcing of computer displays from certain nations 1806.Extension of Comptroller General assessments and reports on compliance with procurement requirements relating to rare earth elements and strategic and critical materials 1807.Requirements related to detection and avoidance of counterfeit electronic parts 1808.Analysis and report on sourcing of certain items 1809.Assessment and implementation plan for sourcing of synthetic diamond and super abrasive materials used in defense applications 1810.Defense Supply Chain Intelligence and Risk Response Program 1811.Identification of supply chain dependencies 1812.Federal Acquisition Security Council exclusion orders for Chinese military company designees 1813.Domestic preference in the procurement of professional services 1814.Prohibition on the use of Chinese-manufactured optical fiber by the Department of Defense 1815.Report on primary aluminum sector industrial base assessment 1816.Assessment of risk related to adversarial capital in the defense industrial base 1817.Integration of demand for foreign military sales into industrial base planning 1818.Report on the feasibility of requiring Bills of Materials for defense acquisition

Subtitle B — Provisions Relating to Defense Industrial Base Manufacturing

1831.Clarification of eligible uses of Defense Industrial Base Fund 1832.Inclusion of biotechnology in uses of the Industrial Base Fund 1833.Development and application of alternative material sources 1834.Report and implementation of plan for advanced manufacturing for certain critical readiness items of supply 1835.Additional guidance related to advanced manufacturing 1836.Modifications to advanced manufacturing policy review and guidance 1837.Enhanced domestic content requirement for shipbuilding programs 1838.Triennial review of merger and acquisition activity associated with major defense suppliers 1839.Multiyear procurement authority for certain munitions 1840.Multiyear procurement authority for platforms and components systems 1841.Managing and mitigating risks in major munitions programs 1842.Comptroller General assessment on improving weapon systems and technology procurement

Subtitle C — Organic Industrial Base

1861.Modification to annual report on depot-level maintenance and repair workloads by public and private sectors 1862.Authority to write off capital expenditures for certain depots of Department of Defense 1863.Reforms relating to Army organic industrial base 1864.Exclusion of manufacturing arsenal workload from depot carryover calculation 1865.Temporary authority for use of operation and maintenance funds to provide training for certain employees performing services or work funded by working-capital funds 1866.Demonstration and prototyping program for qualification of organic industrial base as alternate source for manufacture of casts and forged components for legacy aircraft 1867.Briefing and report on Defense industrial base chokepoints and organic industrial base modernization

Subtitle D — Small Business Matters

1871.Exception to contract price requirement relating to use of test and evaluation installations by commercial entities 1872.Amendments to the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program 1873.Pilot program on digital engineering and advanced manufacturing to address no-bid solicitations 1874.Pilot program to improve participation by small business concerns in certain Department of Defense contracts 1875.Guidance to ensure protection of covered information during covered preaward engagements

Subtitle E — Defense Industrial Base Workforce Matters

1881.Skills-based requirements for Department of Defense contractor personnel 1882.Modification of working group on the advanced manufacturing workforce 1883.Workforce development initiatives to support mining of critical minerals

Subtitle F — Other Matters

1891.Exemption from trademark licensing fees for certain military exchange contractors 1892.Major system cost growth oversight 1893.Inapplicability of Berry Amendment exceptions to certain seafood purchases 1894.Clarification of commercial solicitation restrictions during initial entry training for memorabilia and photography