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Problem:SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Enterprise Integration Act of
2000''.

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 movement toward electronically
integrated supply chains during the last half of the 1990's.
(4) A major Wall Street firm recently estimated that the
adoption of electronic commerce-based supply chains in various
manufacturing industries can reduce business costs from 10
percent to 40 percent.
(5) European and Asian countries are investing heavily in
electronic enterprise standards development, and in preparing
their smaller manufacturers to do business in the new
environment. European efforts are well advanced in the
aerospace, automotive, and shipbuilding industries and are
beginning in other industries including home building,
furniture manufacturing, textiles, and apparel.
(6) If United States manufacturers are to remain
competitive, they must match their overseas competition by
making sure that standards, including application protocols,
developed for electronic business in their industry worldwide
reflect their needs and the needs of their customers and
suppliers.
(7) Many American small and medium-sized manufacturers run
the risk of losing their largest customers during the first
half of this decade unless they adopt computer aided design,
engineering, and manufacturing systems in their work places and
learn how to participate with customers and suppliers in
integrated electronic enterprises.
(8) Application protocols are very complex standards, often
running thousands of pages, and require the cooperation of
entire industries for their development.
(9) 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 manufacturing extension program, is in a unique position to
help United States large and smaller manufacturers alike in
their responses to this challenge.
(10) It is, therefore, in the national interest for the
National Institute of Standards and Technology to accelerate
its efforts--
(A) in helping major manufacturing industries
develop standards and enterprise integration processes
that are necessary to increase efficiency and lower
costs; and
(B) in making sure that every small or medium-sized
manufacturer has the option of upgrading its
manufacturing capabilities to the point where it can be
part of an electronic supply chain of a major
manufacturing industry.

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 Director shall involve, as appropriate, the
various units of the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
including the National Institute of Standards and Technology
laboratories, the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program
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 Quality Program. This initiative shall begin with
product data management and 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 be
designed to permit enterprise integration in each United States major
manufacturing industry at the earliest possible date.
(b) Assessment.--The Director shall work to identify all enterprise
integration standards and implementation activities for major
manufacturing industries underway in the United States and abroad. For
each major manufacturing industry, the Director shall work with
industry representatives and organizations currently engaged in
enterprise integration activities and other appropriate representatives
as necessary. They shall assess the current state of enterprise
integration within the industry, identify the remaining steps in
achieving enterprise integration, and work toward agreement on the
roles of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and of the
private sector in that process. Within 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Director shall report to the Congress on
these matters and on anticipated related National Institute of
Standards and Technology activities for the then current fiscal year.
(c) Plans and Reports.--Within 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Director shall submit to the Congress a plan
for enterprise integration for each major manufacturing industry,
including milestones for the National Institute of Standards and
Technology portion of the plan, the dates of likely achievement of
those milestones, and anticipated costs to the Government and industry
by fiscal year. Updates of the plans and a progress report for the past
year shall be submitted annually until for a given industry, in the
opinion of the Director, enterprise integration has been achieved.
(d) Authorized Activities.--In order to carry out this Act and the
plans prepared under subsection (c), the Director may--
(1) work with companies and trade associations within a
major manufacturing industry to raise awareness of enterprise
integration activities in the United States and abroad,
including convening meetings;
(2) work with an industry on the development of enterprise
integration roadmaps;
(3) support the development, testing, promulgation, and
adoption of standards, including application protocols;
(4) support the development, promulgation, integration, and
upgrading of standards related to enterprise integration;
(5) support pilot projects that include small and medium-
sized businesses for new standards and enterprise integration;
(6) ensure the training and regular upgrading of skills of
Manufacturing Extension Program employees;
(7) develop tool kits and employee training materials and
take other steps necessary to permit small and medium-sized
businesses to participate in an integrated enterprise; and
(8) set up mechanisms to permit the various Manufacturing
Extension Program centers to access expertise and materials
from each other.

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 equipment, 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, and suppliers
to enable the electronic exchange of product, manufacturing,
and other business data among all businesses 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 ''National Institute of Standards and
Technology laboratories'' means those institutes of the
National Institute of Standards and Technology with expertise
in electronic commerce, including the Manufacturing Engineering
Laboratory, the Building and Fire Research Laboratory, and the
Information Technology Laboratory.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

There are authorized to be appropriated to the Director to carry
out functions under this Act $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2001,
$15,000,000 for fiscal year 2002, and such sums as may be necessary for
subsequent fiscal years.
Solution:
Requires the Director to identify all enterprise integration standards and implementation activities for major manufacturing industries underway in the United States and abroad. Requires: (1) the Director to work with industry representatives and organizations currently engaged in enterprise integration activities; and (2) such representatives and organizations to assess the current state of enterprise integration within the industry, identify the remaining steps, and work toward agreement on the roles of NIST and the private sector. Requires the Director to report to Congress on these matters and on anticipated related NIST activities.
Requires the Director to submit to Congress a plan for enterprise integration for each major manufacturing industry, including milestones for NIST's portion of the plan, the dates of likely achievement of those milestones, and anticipated costs to the Government and industry by fiscal year. Requires, for a given industry, updates of the plans and a progress report for the past year to be submitted annually until enterprise integration has been achieved.
Authorizes appropriations.