124 STAT. 4310 PUBLIC LAW 111–383—JAN. 7, 2011 PART IV—INDUSTRIAL BASE SEC. 891. EXPANSION OF THE INDUSTRIAL BASE. (a) PROGRAM TO EXPAND INDUSTRIAL BASE REQUIRED.—The Secretary of Defense shall establish a program to expand the indus- trial base of the Department of Defense to increase the Depart- ment’s access to innovation and the benefits of competition. (b) IDENTIFYING AND COMMUNICATING WITH FIRMS THAT ARE NOT TRADITIONAL SUPPLIERS.—The program established under sub- section (a) shall use tools and resources available within the Federal Government and available from the private sector to provide a capability for identifying and communicating with firms that are not traditional suppliers, including commercial firms and firms of all business sizes, that are engaged in markets of importance to the Department of Defense in which such firms can make a significant contribution. (c) OUTREACH TO LOCAL FIRMS NEAR DEFENSE INSTALLA- TIONS.—The program established under subsection (a) shall include outreach, using procurement technical assistance centers, to firms of all business sizes in the vicinity of Department of Defense installations regarding opportunities to obtain contracts and sub- contracts to perform work at such installations. (d) INDUSTRIAL BASE REVIEW.—The program established under subsection (a) shall include a continuous effort to review the indus- trial base supporting the Department of Defense, including the identification of markets of importance to the Department of Defense in which firms that are not traditional suppliers can make a significant contribution. (e) FIRMS THAT ARE NOT TRADITIONAL SUPPLIERS.—For pur- poses of this section, a firm is not a traditional supplier of the Department of Defense if it does not currently have contracts and subcontracts to perform work for the Department of Defense with a total combined value in excess of $500,000. (f) PROCUREMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER.—In this sec- tion, the term ‘‘procurement technical assistance center’’ means a center operating under a cooperative agreement with the Defense Logistics Agency to provide procurement technical assistance pursu- ant to the authority provided in chapter 142 of title 10, United States Code. SEC. 892. PRICE TREND ANALYSIS FOR SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT PURCHASED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE. (a) PRICE TREND ANALYSIS PROCEDURES.— (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense shall develop and implement procedures that, to the maximum extent prac- ticable, provide for the collection and analysis of information on price trends for covered supplies and equipment purchased by the Department of Defense. The procedures shall include an automated process for identifying categories of covered sup- plies and equipment described in paragraph (2) that have experienced significant escalation in prices. (2) CATEGORY OF COVERED SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT.—A category of covered supplies and equipment referred to in para- graph (1) consists of covered supplies and equipment that have the same National Stock Number, are in a single Federal Supply Group or Federal Supply Class, are provided by a single 10 USC 2306a note. Definition. 10 USC 2501 note.
