I 
118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5703 
To establish an Office of Economic and Security Preparedness and Resilience, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 
Ms. DELAURO (for herself and Mr. BANKS) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To establish an Office of Economic and Security 
Preparedness and Resilience, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Strategic Homeland 
Investment in Economic and Logistical Defense Act’’ or 
the ‘‘SHIELD Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. OFFICE OF ECONOMIC AND SECURITY PREPARED-
NESS AND RESILIENCE AND SUPPLY CHAIN 
MAPPING UNIT. 
(a) OFFICE
OF ECONOMIC
AND SECURITY PRE-
PAREDNESS AND RESILIENCE.—The President shall es-
tablish in the executive branch an office, to be known as 
the ‘‘Office of Economic and Security Preparedness and 
Resilience’’, to oversee, coordinate, and set priorities for 
cross-agency efforts to ensure resilient United States sup-
ply chains and robust domestic production in sectors that 
are vital to the national security of the United States, par-
ticularly in the context of growing great-power competition 
with the People’s Republic of China. 
(b) SUPPLY CHAIN MAPPING UNIT.—The Office 
shall establish a dedicated unit, to be known as the ‘‘Sup-
ply Chain Mapping Unit’’, to— 
(1) determine requirements, set priorities, and 
coordinate efforts among Federal agencies and in-
dustry to continuously map, monitor, and analyze 
supply chains that are critical to the national secu-
rity of the United States, including— 
(A) semiconductors; 
(B) rare-earth elements and critical min-
erals; 
(C) pharmaceuticals and active pharma-
ceutical ingredients; and 
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(D) castings and forgings; and 
(2) develop interoperable performance measures 
to monitor and assess current United States supply 
chain resiliency and risk mitigation efforts, including 
data collection on United States supply chain de-
pendencies on direct and indirect suppliers owned or 
controlled by or otherwise subject to the jurisdiction 
of the People’s Republic of China or the Chinese 
Communist Party, with a particular focus on de-
fense-critical and critical infrastructure supply 
chains. 
(c) CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE DEFINED.—In sub-
section (b)(2), the term ‘‘critical infrastructure’’ has the 
meaning given that term in the Critical Infrastructures 
Protection Act of 2001 (42 U.S.C. 5195c). 
SEC. 3. DEFENSE MOBILIZATION UNIT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the Execu-
tive Office of the President a unit, to be known as the 
‘‘Defense Mobilization Unit’’, to be responsible for coordi-
nating and setting priorities for— 
(1) assessing the requirements for weapons, 
munitions, supplies, and other equipment necessary 
to equip, support, and defend United States forces 
and to assist United States allies and partners in a 
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context of growing great-power competition with the 
People’s Republic of China; 
(2) determining the adequacy of existing United 
States stocks and available productive capacity and 
existing United States allies’ and partners’ stocks 
and available productive capacities to meet the needs 
described in paragraph (1); 
(3) identifying potential shortfalls or bottle-
necks that might impede production and resupply to 
meet the needs described in paragraph (1), to in-
clude the impact of partial or complete disruptions 
in United States-China trade on defense mobilization 
and domestic availability of critical materials, prod-
ucts, and supplies; and 
(4) recommending corrective measures to ad-
dress the corrective measures determined and identi-
fied in paragraphs (2) and (3), to include adjust-
ments to funding and support mechanisms as nec-
essary to ensure the achievement of such corrective 
measures. 
(b) CONSULTATION.—The President shall consult 
with the heads of other Federal departments and agencies 
on a regular basis to— 
(1) identify shortfalls and bottlenecks in the 
current defense industrial base; and 
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