PROCUREMENT FROM FIRMS IN INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR PRODUCTION OF SMALL ARMS.

SEC. 832. PROCUREMENT FROM FIRMS IN INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR PRODUCTION OF SMALL ARMS. (a) Requirement.— Chapter 146 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: “§2473. Procurements from the small arms production industrial base “(a) Authority To Limit Procurements To Certain Sources.— To the extent that the Secretary of Defense determines necessary to preserve the small arms production industrial base, the Secretary may require that any procurement of property or services described in subsection (b) for the Department of Defense be made only from a firm in the small arms production industrial base. “(b) Covered Property and Services.— Subsection (a) applies to the following: “(1) Repair parts for small arms. “(2) Modifications of parts to improve small arms used by the armed forces. “(c) Small Arms Production Industrial Base.— In this section, the term ‘small arms production industrial base’ means the firms comprising the small arms production industrial base, as described in the plan entitled ‘Preservation of Critical Elements of the Small Arms Industrial Base’, dated January 8, 1994, that was prepared by an independent assessment panel of the Army Science Board.”. (b) Clerical Amendment.— The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: “2473. Procurements from the small arms production industrial base.”.