DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTS

SEC. 826. DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTS (a) Monitoring and Five-Year Annual Report Requirement.— (1) Chapter 148 of title 10, United States Code (as amended by section 825(a)), is further amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§ 2510. Defense industrial base for textile and apparel products “(a) Capability of Domestic Textile and Apparel Industrial Base.— The Secretary of Defense shall monitor the capability of the domestic textile and apparel industrial base to support defense mobilization requirements. 104 STAT. 1606 “(b) Annual Report.— The Secretary shall submit to Congress not later than April 1 of each of the five years beginning with 1991 a report on the status of such industrial base. Each such report shall include the following: “(1) An identification of textile and apparel mobilization requirements of the Department of Defense that cannot be satisfied on a timely basis by the domestic industries. “(2) An assessment of the effect any inadequacy in the textile and apparel industrial base would have on a defense mobilization. “(3) Recommendations for ways to alleviate any inadequacy in such industrial base that the Secretary considers critical to defense mobilization requirements.”. (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter (as amended by section 825(b)) is further amended by adding at the end the following new item: “2510. Defense industrial base for textile and apparel products.”. (b) Conforming Amendment.— Section 1456 of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 (Public Law 99–145; 99 Stat. 762), is repealed.