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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="5855" measure-id="id113hr5855" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2014-12-11" update-date="2014-12-31">
<title>To require a report on procurement supply chain vulnerabilities within the Department of Defense.</title>
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<action-date>2014-12-11</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Directs the Secretary of Defense (DOD) to report to Congress&nbsp;regarding how sole source suppliers of components to the&nbsp;DOD procurement supply chain create vulnerabilities to military attack, terrorism, natural disaster, industrial shock, financial crisis, or geopolitical crisis, such as an embargo of key raw materials or industrial inputs.</p> <p>Requires the report to include: (1) a list of the supply chain components for which there is a supplier that controls over 50% of the global market; (2)&nbsp;a list of parts of the supply chain where there is inadequate information to ascertain whether there is a single source supplier of components; and (3) the Secretary's recommendations on which single source suppliers create vulnerabilities and on how to reduce those vulnerabilities.</p>]]></summary-text>
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