PUBLIC LAW 107–277—NOV. 5, 2002

ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION ACT OF 2002

116 STAT. 1936 PUBLIC LAW 107–277—NOV. 5, 2002

Public Law 107–277

107th Congress

An Act

To authorize the National Institute of Standards and Technology to work with

major manufacturing industries on an initiative of standards development and

implementation for electronic enterprise integration.

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 ‘‘Enterprise Integration Act of

2002’’.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

The Congress makes the following findings:

(1) Over 90 percent of United States companies engaged

in manufacturing are small- and medium-sized businesses.

(2) Most of these manufacturers produce goods for assemblage into products of large companies.

(3) The emergence of the World Wide Web and the

promulgation of international standards for product data

exchange greatly accelerated the movement toward electronically integrated supply chains during the last half of the 1990’s.

(4) European and Asian countries are investing heavily

in electronic enterprise standards development, and in preparing their smaller manufacturers to do business in the new

environment. European efforts are well advanced in the aerospace, automotive, and shipbuilding industries and are beginning in other industries including home building, furniture

manufacturing, textiles, and apparel. This investment could

give overseas companies a major competitive advantage.

(5) The National Institute of Standards and Technology,

because of the electronic commerce expertise in its laboratories

and quality program, its long history of working cooperatively

with manufacturers, and the nationwide reach of its manufacturing extension program, is in a unique position to help United

States large and smaller manufacturers alike in their responses

to this challenge.

(6) It is, therefore, in the national interest for the National

Institute of Standards and Technology to accelerate its efforts

in helping industry develop standards and enterprise integration processes that are necessary to increase efficiency and

lower costs.

SEC. 3. ENTERPRISE INTEGRATION INITIATIVE.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Director shall establish an initiative

for advancing enterprise integration within the United States. In

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carrying out this section, the Director shall involve, as appropriate,

the various units of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology laboratories (including the Building and Fire Research Laboratory), the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program established under sections 25 and 26 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278k and 278l), and the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Program. This initiative shall build

upon ongoing efforts of the National Institute of Standards and

Technology and of the private sector, shall involve consortia that

include government and industry, and shall address the enterprise

integration needs of each United States major manufacturing

industry at the earliest possible date.

(b) ASSESSMENT.—For each major manufacturing industry, the

Director may work with industry, trade associations, professional

societies, and others as appropriate, to identify enterprise integration standardization and implementation activities underway in

the United States and abroad that affect that industry and to

assess the current state of enterprise integration within that

industry. The Director may assist in the development of roadmaps

to permit supply chains within the industry to operate as an

integrated electronic enterprise. The roadmaps shall be based on

voluntary consensus standards.

(c) REPORTS.—Within 180 days after the date of the enactment

of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Director shall submit

to the Committee on Science of the House of Representatives and

the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the

Senate a report on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s activities under subsection (b).

(d) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.—In order to carry out this Act,

the Director may work with industry, trade associations, professional societies, and others as appropriate—

(1) to raise awareness in the United States, including

awareness by businesses that are majority owned by women,

minorities, or both, of enterprise integration activities in the

United States and abroad, including by the convening of conferences;

(2) on the development of enterprise integration roadmaps;

(3) to support the development, testing, promulgation,

integration, adoption, and upgrading of standards related to

enterprise integration including application protocols; and

(4) to provide technical assistance and, if necessary, financial support to small- and medium-sized businesses that set

up pilot projects in enterprise integration.

(e) MANUFACTURING EXTENSION PROGRAM.—The Director shall

ensure that the Manufacturing Extension Program is prepared to

advise small- and medium-sized businesses on how to acquire the

expertise, equipment, and training necessary to participate fully

in supply chains using enterprise integration.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

For purposes of this Act—

(1) the term ‘‘automotive’’ means land-based engine-powered vehicles including automobiles, trucks, busses, trains,

defense vehicles, farm equipment, and motorcycles;

(2) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of the National

Institute of Standards and Technology;

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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2733:

HOUSE REPORTS: No. 107–520 (Comm. on Science).

SENATE REPORTS: No. 107–319 (Comm. on Commerce, Science, and Transportation).

CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 148 (2002):

July 11, considered and passed House.

Oct. 17, considered and passed Senate.

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(3) the term ‘‘enterprise integration’’ means the electronic

linkage of manufacturers, assemblers, suppliers, and customers

to enable the electronic exchange of product, manufacturing,

and other business data among all partners in a product supply

chain, and such term includes related application protocols

and other related standards;

(4) the term ‘‘major manufacturing industry’’ includes the

aerospace, automotive, electronics, shipbuilding, construction,

home building, furniture, textile, and apparel industries and

such other industries as the Director designates; and

(5) the term ‘‘roadmap’’ means an assessment of manufacturing interoperability requirements developed by an industry

describing that industry’s goals related to enterprise integration, the knowledge and standards including application protocols necessary to achieve those goals, and the necessary steps,

timetable, and assignment of responsibilities for acquiring the

knowledge and developing the standards and protocols.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Director to

carry out functions under this Act—

(1) $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2002;

(2) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2003;

(3) $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2004; and

(4) $20,000,000 for fiscal year 2005.

Approved November 5, 2002.

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