[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6196 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6196

   To require the Secretary of Defense to reduce the fluctuations of 
  supply and demand for certain covered items, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 8, 2021

 Ms. Slotkin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
   To require the Secretary of Defense to reduce the fluctuations of 
  supply and demand for certain covered items, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Supply Chain Fluctuation Forecasting 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION OF FLUCTUATIONS OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND FOR CERTAIN 
              COVERED ITEMS.

    (a) Supply and Demand Requirements.--Not later than one year after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall--
            (1) specify methods and processes to track and reduce 
        fluctuations in supply chain forecasting and demand 
        requirements of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, each 
        military department (as defined in section 101 of title 10, 
        United States Code), and the Defense Logistics Agency for 
        covered items; and
            (2) implement policies to encourage predictable demand 
        requirements for covered items for the Office of the Secretary 
        of Defense, each military department, and the Defense Logistics 
        Agency.
    (b) Report.--Not later than 15 months after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and quarterly thereafter, each Secretary of a 
military department and the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency 
shall submit to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 
Sustainment a report on the fluctuations in supply chain forecasting 
and demand requirements for each covered item, expressed as a 
percentage.
    (c) Covered Item Defined.--In this section, the term ``covered 
item'' means a covered item described in subparagraph (B), (C), or (E) 
of subsection (b)(1) or subsection (b)(2) of section 2533a of title 10, 
United States Code.
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