H. R. 2733
One Hundred Seventh Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two
An Act
To authorize the National Institute of Standards and Technology to work with
major manufacturing industries on an initiative of standards development and
implementation for electronic enterprise integration.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 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 assem-
blage 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 movement toward electroni-
cally integrated supply chains during the last half of the 1990’s.
(4) European and Asian countries are investing heavily
in electronic enterprise standards development, and in pre-
paring their smaller manufacturers to do business in the new
environment. European efforts are well advanced in the aero-
space, automotive, and shipbuilding industries and are begin-
ning in other industries including home building, furniture
manufacturing, textiles, and apparel. This investment could
give overseas companies a major competitive advantage.
(5) The National Institute of Standards and Technology,
because of the electronic commerce expertise in its laboratories
and quality program, its long history of working cooperatively
with manufacturers, 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 integra-
tion 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
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carrying out this section, the Director shall involve, as appropriate,
the various units of the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology, including the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology laboratories (including the Building and Fire Research Lab-
oratory), the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program estab-
lished under sections 25 and 26 of the National Institute of Stand-
ards and Technology Act (15 U.S.C. 278k and 278l), and the Mal-
colm Baldrige National Quality Program. This initiative shall build
upon ongoing efforts of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology 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 associations, professional
societies, and others as appropriate, to identify enterprise integra-
tion standardization and implementation 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 Director 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 Tech-
nology’s activities under subsection (b).
(d) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.—In order to carry out this Act,
the Director may work with industry, trade associations, profes-
sional societies, and others as appropriate—
(1) to raise awareness in the United States, including
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 con-
ferences;
(2) on the development of enterprise integration roadmaps;
(3) to support the development, testing, promulgation,
integration, adoption, and upgrading of standards related to
enterprise integration including application protocols; and
(4) to provide technical assistance and, if necessary, finan-
cial support to small- and medium-sized businesses that set
up pilot projects in enterprise integration.
(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-pow-
ered vehicles including automobiles, trucks, busses, trains,
defense vehicles, farm equipment, and motorcycles;
(2) the term ‘‘Director’’ means the Director of the National
Institute of Standards and Technology;
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(3) the term ‘‘enterprise integration’’ means the electronic
linkage of manufacturers, assemblers, suppliers, and customers
to enable the electronic exchange of product, manufacturing,
and other business 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, shipbuilding, construction,
home building, furniture, textile, and apparel industries and
such other industries as the Director designates; and
(5) the term ‘‘roadmap’’ means an assessment of manufac-
turing interoperability requirements developed by an industry
describing that industry’s goals related to enterprise integra-
tion, the knowledge and standards including application proto-
cols necessary 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 Director 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.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.