[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2733 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.2733

                      One Hundred Seventh Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
          the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two


                                 An Act


 
To authorize the National Institute of Standards and Technology to work 
   with major manufacturing industries on an initiative of standards 
  development and implementation for electronic enterprise integration.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Enterprise Integration Act of 
2002''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress makes the following findings:
        (1) Over 90 percent of United States companies engaged in 
    manufacturing are small- and medium-sized businesses.
        (2) Most of these manufacturers produce goods for assemblage 
    into products of large companies.
        (3) The emergence of the World Wide Web and the promulgation of 
    international standards for product data exchange greatly 
    accelerated the movement toward electronically integrated supply 
    chains during the last half of the 1990's.
        (4) European and Asian countries are investing heavily in 
    electronic enterprise standards development, and in preparing their 
    smaller manufacturers to do business in the new environment. 
    European efforts are well advanced in the aerospace, automotive, 
    and shipbuilding industries and are beginning in other industries 
    including home building, furniture manufacturing, textiles, and 
    apparel. This investment could give overseas companies a major 
    competitive advantage.
        (5) The National Institute of Standards and Technology, because 
    of the electronic commerce expertise in its laboratories and 
    quality program, its long history of working cooperatively with 
    manufacturers, and the nationwide reach of its manufacturing 
    extension program, is in a unique position to help United States 
    large and smaller manufacturers alike in their responses to this 
    challenge.
        (6) It is, therefore, in the national interest for the National 
    Institute of Standards and Technology to accelerate its efforts in 
    helping industry develop standards and enterprise integration 
    processes that are necessary to increase efficiency and lower 
    costs.

SEC. 3. ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION INITIATIVE.

    (a) Establishment.--The Director shall establish an initiative for 
advancing enterprise integration within the United States. In carrying 
out this section, the Director shall involve, as appropriate, the 
various units of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 
including the National Institute of Standards and Technology 
laboratories (including the Building and Fire Research Laboratory), the 
Manufacturing Extension Partnership program established under sections 
25 and 26 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 
U.S.C. 278k and 278l), and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality 
Program. This initiative shall build upon ongoing efforts of the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology and of the private 
sector, shall involve consortia that include government and industry, 
and shall address the enterprise integration needs of each United 
States major manufacturing industry at the earliest possible date.
    (b) Assessment.--For each major manufacturing industry, the 
Director may work with industry, trade associations, professional 
societies, and others as appropriate, to identify enterprise 
integration standardization and implementation activities underway in 
the United States and abroad that affect that industry and to assess 
the current state of enterprise integration within that industry. The 
Director may assist in the development of roadmaps to permit supply 
chains within the industry to operate as an integrated electronic 
enterprise. The roadmaps shall be based on voluntary consensus 
standards.
    (c) Reports.--Within 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
this Act, and annually thereafter, the Director shall submit to the 
Committee on Science of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report on the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology's activities under 
subsection (b).
    (d) Authorized Activities.--In order to carry out this Act, the 
Director may work with industry, trade associations, professional 
societies, and others as appropriate--
        (1) to raise awareness in the United States, including 
    awareness by businesses that are majority owned by women, 
    minorities, or both, of enterprise integration activities in the 
    United States and abroad, including by the convening of 
    conferences;
        (2) on the development of enterprise integration roadmaps;
        (3) to support the development, testing, promulgation, 
    integration, adoption, and upgrading of standards related to 
    enterprise integration including application protocols; and
        (4) to provide technical assistance and, if necessary, 
    financial support to small- and medium-sized businesses that set up 
    pilot projects in enterprise integration.
    (e) Manufacturing Extension Program.--The Director shall ensure 
that the Manufacturing Extension Program is prepared to advise small- 
and medium-sized businesses on how to acquire the expertise, equipment, 
and training necessary to participate fully in supply chains using 
enterprise integration.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    For purposes of this Act--
        (1) the term ``automotive'' means land-based engine-powered 
    vehicles including automobiles, trucks, busses, trains, defense 
    vehicles, farm equipment, and motorcycles;
        (2) the term ``Director'' means the Director of the National 
    Institute of Standards and Technology;
        (3) the term ``enterprise integration'' means the electronic 
    linkage of manufacturers, assemblers, suppliers, and customers to 
    enable the electronic exchange of product, manufacturing, and other 
    business data among all partners in a product supply chain, and 
    such term includes related application protocols and other related 
    standards;
        (4) the term ``major manufacturing industry'' includes the 
    aerospace, automotive, electronics, shipbuilding, construction, 
    home building, furniture, textile, and apparel industries and such 
    other industries as the Director designates; and
        (5) the term ``roadmap'' means an assessment of manufacturing 
    interoperability requirements developed by an industry describing 
    that industry's goals related to enterprise integration, the 
    knowledge and standards including application protocols necessary 
    to achieve those goals, and the necessary steps, timetable, and 
    assignment of responsibilities for acquiring the knowledge and 
    developing the standards and protocols.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated to the Director to carry 
out functions under this Act--
        (1) $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2002;
        (2) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2003;
        (3) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; and
        (4) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2005.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.