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inserting the following: ‘‘secondary schools, community col-
leges, and area career and technical education schools, 
including those in underserved and rural communities,’’; 
and 
(B) in paragraph (7)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘and local colleges’’ and inserting 
‘‘local secondary schools and local colleges, including 
historically Black colleges and universities, Tribal Col-
leges or Universities, minority-serving institutions, 
community colleges, and secondary schools and colleges 
in underserved and rural communities,’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘or other applied learning 
opportunities’’ after ‘‘apprenticeships’’; and 
(2) in subsection (d)(3), by striking ‘‘, community colleges, 
and area career and technical education schools,’’ and inserting 
the following: ‘‘and local high schools, community colleges, and 
area career and technical education schools, including those 
in underserved and rural communities,’’. 
SEC. 10253. NATIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN DATABASE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN DATABASE.— 
The Director shall establish a voluntary National Supply Chain 
Database, subject to the availability of appropriations. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the voluntary National Supply 
Chain Database shall be to assist the Federal Government and 
industry sectors in minimizing disruptions to the United States 
supply chain by having an assessment of United States manufactur-
ers’ capabilities. 
(c) STUDY ON NATIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN DATABASE.—In estab-
lishing the National Supply Chain Database, the Director shall 
consider the findings and recommendations from the study author-
ized pursuant to section 9413 of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (Public Law 116–283), including measures 
to secure and protect the Database from adversarial attacks and 
vulnerabilities. 
(d) DATABASE AND MANUFACTURING EXTENSION PARTNERSHIP.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall establish the infra-
structure for the National Supply Chain Database through 
the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership, established 
pursuant to section 25 of the National Institute of Standards 
and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278k), by connecting information 
from the Centers (as such term is defined in such section) 
through the Database. 
(2) NATIONAL VIEW.—The Director shall ensure that connec-
tions under paragraph (1)— 
(A) provide a national overview of the networks of 
supply chains of the United States; and 
(B) support understanding of whether there is a need 
for some manufacturers to retool in some critical areas 
to meet the urgent need for key products. 
(3) INDIVIDUAL HOLLINGS MANUFACTURING EXTENSION PART-
NERSHIP CENTER DATABASES.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Director shall ensure that— 
(i) each Center is connected to the National Supply 
Chain Database; and 
(ii) each supply chain database maintained by a 
Center is interoperable with the Database.
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(B) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section 
may be construed to require a State or territory of the 
United States to establish a new supply chain database 
through the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership 
program. 
(e) MAINTENANCE
OF NATIONAL SUPPLY CHAIN DATABASE.— 
The Director, acting through the Hollings Manufacturing Extension 
Partnership program or a designee of the program— 
(1) shall maintain the National Supply Chain Database 
as an integration of State-level databases from the Center 
of each State or territory of the United States; 
(2) may populate the Database with information from past 
or current clients of Centers; and 
(3) may include in the Database information voluntarily 
provided by non-client private sector entities based and oper-
ating in the United States, as applicable and appropriate. 
(f) DATABASE CONTENT.—The National Supply Chain Database 
may include the following: 
(1) Basic private sector entity information. 
(2) An overview of capabilities, accreditations, and products. 
(3) Proprietary information. 
(g) STANDARD CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM.—The National Supply 
Chain Database may, where applicable, use the North American 
Industry Classification System (NAICS) Codes as follows: 
(1) Sector 31-33 – Manufacturing. 
(2) Sector 54 – Professional, Scientific, and Technical Serv-
ices. 
(3) Sector 48-49 – Transportation and Warehousing. 
(h) LEVELS.—The National Supply Chain Database shall be 
multi-leveled as agreed to under terms of mutual disclosure as 
follows: 
(1) Level 1 shall have the capability to provide basic private 
sector entity information and shall be available to the public. 
(2) Level 2 shall have the capability to provide a deeper, 
nonproprietary overview into capabilities, products, and accredi-
tations and shall be available to all companies that contribute 
to the Database. 
(3) Level 3 shall have the capability to hold proprietary 
information. 
(i) MATTERS RELATING TO DISCLOSURE AND ACCESS.— 
(1) FOIA EXEMPTION.—The National Supply Chain Data-
base, and any information contained therein that is not publicly 
released by the Institute, shall be exempt from public disclosure 
under section 552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code. 
(2) LIMITATION
ON
ACCESS
TO
CONTENT.—Access to a 
contributing private sector entity’s nonpublic content in the 
National Supply Chain Database shall be limited to— 
(A) the contributing private sector entity, the Institute, 
and staff from a Center who sign a nondisclosure agree-
ment, and 
(B) other Federal departments and agencies, 
as the Director considers appropriate. 
(3) AGGREGATED INFORMATION.—The Director may make 
aggregated, de-identified information available to contributing 
companies, Centers, or the public, as the Director considers 
appropriate, in support of the purposes of this section.
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(j) COORDINATION WITH NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND INDUS-
TRIAL BASE COUNCIL.—The Director, acting through the Hollings 
Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, may work with the 
National Defense Technology and Industrial Base Council estab-
lished under section 4812 of title 10, United States Code, as the 
Director considers appropriate, to include in the National Supply 
Chain Database information regarding the defense manufacturing 
supply chain. 
(k) PROTECTIONS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Supply chain information that is volun-
tarily and lawfully submitted to the National Supply Chain 
Database by a private sector entity and accompanied by an 
express statement described in paragraph (2)— 
(A) shall be exempt from disclosure under section 
552(b)(3) of title 5, United States Code; 
(B) may not be made available pursuant to any Federal, 
State, local, or Tribal authority pursuant to any Federal, 
State, local, or Tribal law requiring public disclosure of 
information or records; and 
(C) may not, without the written consent of the private 
sector entity submitting such information, be used directly 
by the Director, or any other Federal, State, or local 
authority in any civil enforcement action brought by a 
Federal, State, Tribal, or local authority. 
(2) EXPRESS STATEMENT.—The express statement described 
in this paragraph, with respect to information or records, is— 
(A) in the case of written information or records, a 
written marking on the information or records substantially 
similar to the following: ‘‘This information is voluntarily 
submitted to the Federal Government in expectation of 
protection from disclosure as provided by the provisions 
of section 10253(k) of the Research and Development, Com-
petition, and Innovation Act.’’; or 
(B) in the case of oral information, a written statement 
similar to the statement described in subparagraph (A) 
submitted within a reasonable period following the oral 
communication. 
(l) RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.— 
(1) PRIVATE ENTITIES.—Nothing in this section may be con-
strued to require any private sector entity to share data, 
including proprietary information, with the Director or the 
National Supply Chain Database. 
(2) PROHIBITION ON NEW REGULATORY AUTHORITY.—Nothing 
in this section may be construed to grant the Director, or 
the head of any other Federal agency, any authority to promul-
gate regulations or set standards on manufacturers, based on 
data within the National Supply Chain Database, that was 
not in effect on the day before the date of the enactment 
of this section. 
SEC. 10254. HOLLINGS MANUFACTURING EXTENSION PARTNERSHIP 
ACTIVITIES. 
Section 70924(b) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs 
Act (Public Law 117–58) is amended to read as follows:
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‘‘(b) AUTOMATIC
ENROLLMENT
IN
GSA ADVANTAGE.—The 
Administrator of the General Services Administration and the Sec-
retary of Commerce, acting through the Under Secretary of Com-
merce for Standards and Technology, shall jointly ensure that 
businesses that participate in the Hollings Manufacturing Extension 
Partnership, and so desire, are automatically enrolled in General 
Services Administration Advantage.’’. 
SEC. 10255. AMENDMENT TO THE HOLLINGS MANUFACTURING EXTEN-
SION PARTNERSHIP RELATING TO INSTITUTIONS OF 
HIGHER EDUCATION. 
Subsection (a) of section 25 of the National Institute of Stand-
ards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278k) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (6) (relating to the definition 
of ‘‘Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership or Program’’) 
as paragraph (7); 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (5) the following new para-
graph: 
‘‘(6) HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY.—The 
term ‘historically Black college and university’ has the meaning 
given the term ‘part B institution’ in section 322 of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061).’’; 
(3) by redesignating the second paragraph (7) (relating 
to the definition of ‘‘MEP Advisory Board’’) as paragraph (8); 
(4) by inserting after paragraph (6) (as inserted by para-
graph (2), relating to the definition of ‘‘historically Black college 
and university’’) the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(7) INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION.—The term ‘institu-
tion of higher education’ has the meaning given such term 
in section 101 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1001).’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: 
‘‘(9) MINORITY-SERVING INSTITUTION.—The term ‘minority- 
serving institution’ means a Hispanic-serving institution as 
defined in section 502(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1101a(a)); an Alaska Native-serving institution or 
Native Hawaiian-serving institution as defined in section 317(b) 
of such Act (20 U.S.C. 1059d(b)); or a Predominantly Black 
institution, Asian American and Native American Pacific 
Islander-serving institution, or Native American-serving non-
tribal institution as defined in section 371(c) of such Act (20 
U.S.C. 1067q(c)). 
‘‘(10) SECONDARY SCHOOL.—The term ‘secondary school’ has 
the meaning given such term in section 8101 of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801). 
‘‘(11) TRIBAL COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY.—The term ‘Tribal 
College or University’ has the meaning given the term ‘Tribal 
College or University’ in section 316 of the Higher Education 
Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1059c).’’. 
Subtitle E—Manufacturing USA Program 
SEC. 10261. SUPPORTING GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY. 
Section 34(e) of the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology Act (15 U.S.C. 278s(e)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: