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Calendar No. 736
107TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2733
[Report No. 107–319] 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 12 (legislative day, JULY 10), 2002
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation 
OCTOBER 16, 2002
Reported by Mr. HOLLINGS, without amendment 
AN ACT 
To authorize the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology to work with major manufacturing industries on 
an initiative of standards development and implementa-
tion for electronic enterprise integration.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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 move-
ment 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 develop-
ment, and in preparing their smaller manufacturers 
to do business in the new environment. European ef-
forts 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 invest-
ment could give overseas companies a major com-
petitive advantage. 
(5) The National Institute of Standards and 
Technology, because of the electronic commerce ex-
pertise in its laboratories and quality program, its 
long history of working cooperatively with manufac-
turers, and the nationwide reach of its manufac-
turing 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 carrying out this section, the Direc-
tor shall involve, as appropriate, the various units of the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology, including 
the National Institute of Standards and Technology lab-
oratories (including the Building and Fire Research Lab-
oratory), the Manufacturing Extension Partnership pro-
gram 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 Qual-
ity Program. This initiative shall build upon ongoing ef-
forts of the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology 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 asso-
ciations, professional societies, and others as appropriate, 
to identify enterprise integration standardization and im-
plementation 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 Direc-
tor 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 activi-
ties under subsection (b). 
(d) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.—In order to carry out 
this Act, the Director may work with industry, trade asso-
ciations, professional societies, and others as appro-
priate—
(1) to raise awareness in the United States, in-
cluding 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, promul-
gation, integration, adoption, and upgrading of 
standards related to enterprise integration including 
application protocols; and 
(4) to provide technical assistance and, if nec-
essary, financial support to small and medium-sized 
businesses that set up pilot projects in enterprise in-
tegration. 
(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 equip-
ment, and motorcycles; 
(2) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of 
the National Institute of Standards and Technology; 
(3) the term ‘‘enterprise integration’’ means the 
electronic linkage of manufacturers, assemblers, sup-
pliers, and customers to enable the electronic ex-
change of product, manufacturing, and other busi-
ness 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, ship-
building, construction, home building, furniture, tex-
tile, and apparel industries and such other industries 
as the Director designates; and 
(5) the term ‘‘roadmap’’ means an assessment 
of manufacturing interoperability requirements de-
veloped by an industry describing that industry’s 
goals related to enterprise integration, the knowledge 
and standards including application protocols nec-
essary 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 Direc-
tor 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.
Calendar No. 736
107TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2733
[Report No. 107–319] 
AN ACT 
To authorize the National Institute of Standards 
and Technology to work with major manufac-
turing industries on an initiative of standards de-
velopment and implementation for electronic en-
terprise integration. 
OCTOBER 16, 2002
Reported without amendment