[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5855 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5855

To require a report on procurement supply chain vulnerabilities within 
                       the Department of Defense.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 11, 2014

 Mr. Grayson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To require a report on procurement supply chain vulnerabilities within 
                       the Department of Defense.

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

SECTION 1. REPORT ON PROCUREMENT SUPPLY CHAIN VULNERABILITIES.

    (a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives a report on how sole source suppliers of components to 
the Department of Defense 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.
    (b) Matters Covered.--The report required by subsection (a) shall 
include, at a minimum, the following:
            (1) A list of the components in the Department of Defense 
        procurement supply chain for which there is a supplier that 
        controls over 50 percent of the global market.
            (2) A list of parts of the supply chain where there is 
        inadequate information to ascertain whether there is a single 
        source supplier of components.
            (3) The Secretary's recommendations on which single source 
        suppliers create vulnerabilities, as well as recommendations on 
        how to reduce those vulnerabilities.
    (c) Form of Report.--The report required by subsection (a) may be 
classified.
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