REPORT ON INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR LARGE SOLID ROCKET MOTORS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES.

SEC. 1695. REPORT ON INDUSTRIAL BASE FOR LARGE SOLID ROCKET MOTORS AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES. (a) Report.—Not later than March 1, 2018, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on options to ensure a robust domestic industrial base for large solid rocket motors, including with respect to the critical technologies, subsystems, components, and materials within and relating to such rocket motors. (b) Matters Included.—The report under subsection (a) shall include the following: (1) An assessment of options that would sustain not less than two domestic suppliers for— (A) large solid rocket motors; (B) small liquid-fueled rocket engines; (C) aeroshells for reentry vehicles (or reentry bodies); (D) strategic radiation-hardened microelectronics; and (E) any other critical technologies, subsystems, components, and materials within and relating to large solid rocket motors that the Secretary determines appropriate. (2) With respect to the sustainment of domestic suppliers as described in paragraph (1), the views of the Secretary on— (A) such sustainment of not less than two domestic suppliers for each item specified in subparagraphs (A) through (E) of such paragraph; (B) the risks within the industrial base for each such item; (C) the estimated costs for such sustainment; and (D) the opportunities to ensure or promote competition within the industrial base for each such item. (c) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.—In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives; and (2) the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.