POLICY.

SEC. 192. POLICY. It is the policy of the United States— (1) to encourage, to the maximum extent practicable, nondefense commercial firms to use Government-owned, contractor-operated ammunition manufacturing facilities of the Department of the Army; (2) to use such facilities for supporting programs, projects, policies, and initiatives that promote competition in the private sector of the United States economy and that advance United States interests in the global marketplace; (3) to increase the manufacture of products inside the United States that, to a significant extent, are manufactured outside the United States; (4) to support policies and programs that provide manufacturers with incentives to assist the United States in making more efficient and economical use of Government-owned industrial plants and equipment for commercial purposes; (5) to provide, as appropriate, small businesses (including socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and new small businesses) with incentives that encourage those businesses to undertake manufacturing and other industrial processing activities that contribute to the prosperity of the United States; (6) to encourage the creation of jobs through increased investment in the private sector of the United States economy; 106 STAT. 2348 (7) to foster a more efficient, cost-effective, and adaptable armaments industry in the United States; (8) to achieve, with respect to armaments manufacturing capacity, an optimum level of readiness of the defense industrial base of the United States that is consistent with the projected threats to the national security of the United States and the projected emergency requirements of the Armed Forces of the United States; and (9) to encourage facility contracting where feasible.