Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 106 Part 3.djvu/880

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106 STAT. 2674 PUBLIC LAW 102-484—OCT. 23, 1992 (iv) sufficiently integrated with the commercial marketplace to ensure continued viability regardless of the level of Federal Government expenditures in the technology and industrial base sector. (B) The extent to which each technology and industrial base sector is capable of— (i) ongoing production with a present capability for high volume production; (ii) maintenance of a production base that can be converted to high volume production within a reasonable period of time; or (iii) reconstitution of a production base that can reinstate high volume production within a reasonable period of time. (2) The analysis shall specifically identify any technology and industrial base sectors and any entities within technology and industrial base sectors that should be considered for inclusion in the Defense Industrial Reserve. (h) FOREIGN DEPENDENCY CONSIDERATIONS.—The initial regulations shall provide that the foreign dependency considerations taken into account in the preparation of the periodic assessment pursuant to section 2505(c) include, for each technology and industrial base sector, the following factors: (1) The availability of essential raw materials, special alloys, composite materials, components, subsystems, production equipment, facilities, special tooling, and production test equipment for— (A) the sustained production of systems fully capable of meeting the performance objectives established for those systems; (B) the uninterrupted maintenance and repair of such systems; and (C) the sustained operation of such systems. (2) The identification of items specified in paragraph (1) that are available only from sources outside the national technology and industrial base. (3)(A) The availability of alternatives for obtaining such items fh)m within the national technology and industrial base if such items become unavailable from sources outside the national technology and industrial base. (B) An analysis of any military vulnerability that could result from the lack of reasonable alternatives. (4) The effects on the national technology and industrial base that result from foreign acquisition of firms in the United States, (i) DEFINITIONS. —In this section: (1) The term "continued viability means the capability to attain the national security objectives set forth in section 2501(a). (2) The term "defense expenditure" means an expenditure— (A) by the Department of Defense; or (B) by the Department of Energy for a national security program. (3) The term "Defense Industrial Reserve" is the Defense Industrial Reserve established by section 2535. (4) The term "future-years defense program" means the future-years defense program required by section 221.