IIB
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2733
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
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,
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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.
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(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-
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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).
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(d) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.—In order to carry out
this Act, the Director may work with industry, trade asso-
ciations, 
professional 
societies, 
and 
others 
as
appropriate—
(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.
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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