I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7444 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for diversity and inclusion 
reporting requirements for certain Department of Defense contractors, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 7, 2022 
Mr. BROWN of Maryland introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for diver-
sity and inclusion reporting requirements for certain De-
partment of Defense contractors, 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 ‘‘Diversity and Inclusion 
Transparency in the Defense Industrial Base Act’’. 
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membership in demographic classification 
and major occupational group; 
‘‘(G) whether the board of directors of the 
covered contractor has, as of the date on which 
the covered contractor submits a report under 
this section, adopted any policy, plan, or strat-
egy to promote racial, ethnic, and gender diver-
sity among the members of the board of direc-
tors of the covered contractor, nominees for the 
board of directors of the covered contractor, or 
the senior leaders of the covered contractor; and 
‘‘(H) a description of participation by the 
contractor in diversity programs, to include 
hours spent, funds expended in support of, and 
the number of unique relationships established 
by each such diversity program. 
‘‘(b) ANNUAL SUMMARY REPORT.— 
‘‘(1) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 60 
days after the first day of each fiscal year, the Sec-
retary shall submit to the congressional defense com-
mittees a report summarizing the reports submitted 
pursuant to subsection (a). 
‘‘(2) ELEMENTS.—Each report under para-
graph (1) shall include— 
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‘‘(A) an index of the reports submitted 
pursuant to subsection (a); 
‘‘(B) a compilation of the data described in 
such subsection, disaggregated as described in 
such subsection; 
‘‘(C) an aggregation of the data provided 
in such reports; and 
‘‘(D) a narrative that analyzes the infor-
mation disclosed in such reports and identifies 
any year-to-year trends in such information. 
‘‘(c) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—Each report required 
under this subsection shall be posted on a single publicly 
available website of the Department of Defense and made 
available 
in 
a 
machine-readable 
format 
that 
is 
downloadable, searchable, and sortable. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) COVERED CONTRACTOR.—The term ‘cov-
ered contractor’ means a contractor awarded a 
major contract. 
‘‘(2) COVERED
SUBCONTRACTOR.—The term 
‘covered subcontractor’ means a subcontractor per-
forming a subcontract that is one of the 10 highest 
aggregate value subcontracts under a major con-
tract. 
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‘‘(3) 
DEMOGRAPHIC
CLASSIFICATIONS.—The 
term ‘demographic classifications’ means classifica-
tions by race, gender, veteran status, or ethnicity. 
‘‘(4) DIVERSITY PROGRAM.—The term ‘diver-
sity program’ means— 
‘‘(A) a program conducted under section 
3904 of this title; 
‘‘(B) a mentor-protege relationship estab-
lished under section 831 of the National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991; 
‘‘(C) a program conducted under section 
2192a of this title; or 
‘‘(D) any other program designated by the 
Secretary of Defense as designed to increase 
the diversity of the workforce of the defense in-
dustrial base. 
‘‘(5) MAJOR CONTRACT.—The term ‘major con-
tract’ has the meaning given the term in section 
4351 of this title. 
‘‘(6) MAJOR OCCUPATIONAL GROUP.—The term 
‘major occupational group’ means a major occupa-
tional group as defined by the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics. 
‘‘(7) SENIOR LEADER.—The term ‘senior lead-
er’ means— 
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‘‘(A) the president of a covered contractor; 
‘‘(B) any vice president in charge of a 
principal business unit, division, or function of 
a covered contractor; 
‘‘(C) any other officer of a covered con-
tractor who performs a policy-making function; 
or 
‘‘(D) an individual responsible for the di-
rect or indirect management of more than 200 
individuals.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for subchapter V of chapter 325 of title 10, United States 
Code, is amended by adding after the item related to sec-
tion 4892 the following: 
‘‘4893. Diversity and inclusion reporting requirements for covered contractors.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE
AND APPLICABILITY.—The 
amendments made by this section shall take effect on July 
1, 2022, and shall apply with respect to contracts entered 
into on or after July 1, 2022. 
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