Title: To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to submit to Congress a report on the national security implications of the outsourcing of industrial and manufacturing capacities to locations outside the United States.
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to report to the House Committee on Armed Services on the national security implications of private companies that outsource their industrial and manufacturing capacities to locations outside the United States.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3065 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3065

  To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to submit to 
    Congress a report on the national security implications of the 
  outsourcing of industrial and manufacturing capacities to locations 
                       outside the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 2017

 Ms. Shea-Porter introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to submit to 
    Congress a report on the national security implications of the 
  outsourcing of industrial and manufacturing capacities to locations 
                       outside the United States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORT ON NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS 
              OF OUTSOURCING OF INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING 
              CAPACITIES.

    Not later than November 1, 2018, the Comptroller General of the 
United States shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services in the 
House of Representatives a report on the national security implications 
of private companies that outsource their industrial and manufacturing 
capacities to locations outside of the United States. Such report shall 
include--
            (1) an assessment of the material effects of such 
        outsourcing on the United States defense industrial base;
            (2) an assessment of the national security risks to the 
        United States defense industrial base of such outsourcing, 
        including the integrity of the Department of Defense 
        acquisition system, logistics network, or supply chains;
            (3) an assessment of the risks posed by such outsourcing to 
        the readiness of the United States Armed Forces to field a full 
        spectrum of military capabilities; and
            (4) a description of the risks posed by such outsourcing 
        and its effects on the United States defense industrial base, 
        including on the capacity of the United States to sustain a 
        protracted conflict against a near-peer adversary.
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