(3) streamlined mechanisms for a program man-
ager to submit an appeal for funding changes and to 
have such appeal evaluated promptly. 
(d) TRAINING.—The Under Secretary of Defense for 
Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics and the Under Sec-
retary of Defense (Comptroller) shall ensure that as part 
of the training required for program managers and business 
managers, an emphasis is placed on obligating and expend-
ing appropriated funds in a manner that achieves the best 
value for the Government and that the purpose and limita-
tions of obligation and expenditure benchmarks are made 
clear. 
TITLE IV—INDUSTRIAL BASE 
SEC. 401. EXPANSION OF THE INDUSTRIAL BASE. 
(a) PROGRAM
TO EXPAND INDUSTRIAL BASE RE-
QUIRED.—The Secretary of Defense shall establish a pro-
gram to expand the industrial base of the Department of 
Defense to increase the Department’s access to innovation 
and the benefits of competition. 
(b) IDENTIFYING AND COMMUNICATING WITH NON-
TRADITIONAL SUPPLIERS.—The program established under 
subsection (a) shall use tools and resources available within 
the Federal Government and available from the private sec-
tor, to provide a capability for identifying and commu-
nicating with nontraditional suppliers, including commer-
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cial firms and firms of all business sizes, that are engaged 
in markets of importance to the Department of Defense. 
(c) INDUSTRIAL BASE REVIEW.—The program re-
quired by subsection (a) shall include a continuous effort 
to review the industrial base supporting the Department of 
Defense, including the identification of markets of impor-
tance to the Department of Defense. 
(d) DEFINITION.—In this section: 
(1) NONTRADITIONAL
SUPPLIERS.—The term 
‘‘nontraditional suppliers’’ means firms that have re-
ceived contracts from the Department of Defense with 
a total value of not more than $100,000 in the pre-
vious 5 years. 
(2) MARKETS OF IMPORTANCE TO THE DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE.—The term ‘‘markets of impor-
tance to the Department of Defense’’ means industrial 
sectors in which the Department of Defense spends 
more than $500,000,000 annually. 
SEC. 402. COMMERCIAL PRICING ANALYSIS. 
Section 803(c) of the Strom Thurmond National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 
105–261; 10 U.S.C. 2306a note) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(c) COMMERCIAL PRICE TREND ANALYSIS.— 
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‘‘(1) The Secretary of Defense shall develop and 
implement procedures that, to the maximum extent 
practicable, provide for the collection and analysis of 
information on price trends for categories of exempt 
commercial items described in paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) A category of exempt commercial items re-
ferred to in paragraph (1) consists of exempt commer-
cial items that are in a single Federal Supply Group 
or Federal Supply Class, are provided by a single 
contractor, or are otherwise logically grouped for the 
purpose of analyzing information on price trends. 
‘‘(3) The analysis of information on price trends 
under paragraph (1) shall include, in any category in 
which significant escalation in prices is identified, a 
more detailed examination of the causes of escalation 
for such prices within the category and whether such 
price escalation is consistent across the Department of 
Defense. 
‘‘(4) The head of a Department of Defense agency 
or the Secretary of a military department shall take 
appropriate action to address any unjustified esca-
lation in prices being paid for items procured by that 
agency or military department as identified in an 
analysis conducted pursuant to paragraph (1). 
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