114 STAT. 1654A-68 PUBLIC LAW 106-398 —APPENDIX "(1) to encourage, to the maximum extent practicable, commercial firms to use Government-owned, contractor-operated ammunition manufacturing facilities of the Department of the Army; "(2) to use such facilities for supporting programs, projects, policies, and initiatives that promote competition in the private sector of the United States economy and that advance United States interests in the global marketplace; "(3) to increase the manufacture of products inside the United States; "(4) to support policies and programs that provide manufacturers with incentives to assist the United States in making more efficient and economical use of eligible facilities for commercial purposes; "(5) to provide, as appropriate, small businesses (including socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and new small businesses) with incentives that encourage those businesses to undertake manufacturing and other industrial processing activities that contribute to the prosperity of the United States; "(6) to encourage the creation of jobs through increased investment in the private sector of the United States economy; "(7) to foster a more efficient, cost-effective, and adaptable armaments industry in the United States; "(8) to achieve, with respect to armaments manufacturing capacity, an optimum level of readiness of the national technology and industrial base within the United States that is consistent with the projected threats to the national security of the United States and the projected emergency requirements of the armed forces; and "(9) to encourage facility use contracting where feasible.
- '§ 4553. Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative
"(a) AUTHORITY FOR INITIATIVE. —The Secretary may carry out a program to be known as the 'Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative'. "(b) PURPOSES. —The purposes of the ARMS Initiative are as follows: "(1) To encourage commercial firms, to the maximum extent practicable, to use eligible facilities for commercial purposes. "(2) To increase the opportunities for small businesses (including socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and new small businesses) to use eligible facilities for those purposes. "(3) To maintain in the United States a work force having the skills in manufacturing processes that are necessary to meet industrial emergency planned requirements for national security purposes. "(4) To demonstrate innovative business practices, to support Department of Defense acquisition reform, and to serve as both a model and a laboratory for future defense conversion initiatives of the Department of Defense. "(5) To the maximum extent practicable, to allow the operation of eligible facilities to be rapidly responsive to the forces of free market competition.
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