(a) In general
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing and report that include each of the following:
An identification of supply chain chokepoints for each covered strategic component, including—
the defense articles and systems dependent on the chokepoint, particularly for components necessary to produce multiple critical defense articles;
the current domestic and foreign sources of supply, including identification of any covered nation sources and any single points of failure;
the consequences to defense production of a disruption of the chokepoint; and
the estimated time required to restore or replace the capability in the event of a disruption.
A categorization of identified supply chain chokepoints into the following approaches best suited for expanding domestic production, including a description of the criteria used for each category:
Government production.
Government-supported commercial production.
Commercially viable production with de-risked private entry.
An evaluation of production and financing models and mechanisms best suited to expand domestic production for each identified supply chain chokepoint, including each of the following:
Government-owned, government-operated, or other forms of government production;
Government-owned, contractor-operated production;
Contractor-owned, contractor-operated production, or other forms of commercial production;
Pre-qualifying additional commercial production sources;
Strategic stockpiling;
Government lending, grants, and other financing; and
Offtake agreements, price-floor commitments, multiyear procurement, or other government commitments to ensure predictable demand aggregation.
Such recommendations, including legislative recommendations and recommendations for new or expanded production or financing authorities, as the Assistant Secretary considers appropriate to expand organic industrial base and other production needs identified in the briefing and report.
(b) Definitions
In this section:
The term covered strategic component means each of the following:
High-strength steel and titanium castings and forgings and other components supporting the submarine industrial base.
Subcomponents required for long-range fires and air and missile defense systems, including—
solid rocket motors;
energetics and their precursors; and
sensitive electronics.
Batteries, rare earth magnets, and other energy storage platforms.
Castings and forgings.
Printed circuit boards.
Subcomponents for attritable, unmanned, and autonomous systems, including—
optical sensors;
motors; and
cameras.
Such other components as designated by the Assistant Secretary pursuant to a determination that the sector is critical to the ability of the United States to deter or prevail in a high-end conflict.
The term supply chain chokepoint means any component or subcomponent that—
is a necessary input to the production of one or more defense articles within a covered strategic sector; and
is—
produced by a limited number of domestic suppliers, a single domestic supplier, or no domestic supplier; or
is sourced in significant part from a covered nation, as such term is defined in section 4872(f)(2) of title 10, United States Code, the disruption of which would materially impair the production of one or more defense articles.