Congress, recognizing the profound historical role that all aspects of manufacturing, including research and development, engineering, skilled trades, and production, has played in the economy and society of the United States, and in the economic and innovative standing of the United States in the global community, and the interrelations of robust manufacturing on economic, environmental, national security, social, political, and institutional factors, finds that—

(a) Priority goals.—It is the sense of Congress that manufacturing and industrial innovation should include contributing to the following priority goals:

(1) Taking concrete national action to rebuild, restore, and expand domestic manufacturing capabilities, skills, and production capacity, including world-class infrastructure.

(2) Rebuilding the industrial innovation commons, including common resources, technical knowledge, and entrepreneurial opportunities associated with technical concepts.

(3) Supporting domestic supply chains.

(4) Expanding production capabilities, cooperation, and knowledge.

(5) Revitalizing communities harmed by historical and poorly conceived, implemented, and enforced regulatory and trade policies.

(6) Developing a strategy for innovation and establishment of manufacturing industries of the future, including adoption and production of Industry 4.0 technology to support domestic economic expansion, particularly manufacturers with fewer than 800 employees, and in traditionally underserved communities.

(7) Contributing to national health and security and emergency readiness and resilience, including addressing environmental concerns.

(8) Strengthening the economy of the United States and promoting full employment in high-quality, high-wage jobs through useful industrial and technological innovation.

(9) Cultivating, utilizing, and enhancing academic and industrial thought-leadership with practical workforce development and training to the fullest extent possible.

(10) Implementing a national strategy that identifies and prioritizes high growth, high value-added industries, products, and components of national importance to the long-term economic, environmental, national security, and public health of the United States.

(b) National policy.—In view of the findings under section 101, it is the sense of Congress that the Federal Government and public and private institutions in the United States should pursue a national policy of manufacturing and industrial innovation that includes the following principles:

(1) Ensuring global leadership in advanced manufacturing technologies critical to the long-term economic, environmental, national security, and public health of the United States.

(2) Restoring and strengthening the industrial commons of the United States, including—

(A) essential engineering and production skills;

(B) infrastructure for research and development, standardization, and metrology;

(C) process innovations and manufacturing know-how;

(D) equipment; and

(E) suppliers that provide the foundation for the innovativeness and competitiveness of all manufacturers in the United States.

(3) Strengthening the technical, financial, and educational commons and assets necessary to ensure that the United States is the best positioned Nation for the creation and production of advanced technologies and products emerging from national research and development investments.

(4) Capitalizing on the scientific and technological advances produced by researchers and innovators in the United States by developing capable and responsive institutions focused on advancing the technology and manufacturing readiness levels of those advances.

(5) Supporting the discovery, invention, start-up, ramp-up, scale-up, and transition of new products and manufacturing technologies to full-scale production in the United States.

(6) Addressing the evolving needs of manufacturers for a diverse set of workers with the necessary skills, training, and expertise as manufacturers in the United States increase high-quality, high-wage employment opportunities.

(7) Improving and expanding manufacturing engineering and technology offerings within institutions of higher education, including 4-year engineering technology programs at polytechnic institutes and secondary schools, to be more closely aligned with the needs of manufacturers in the United States and the goal of strengthening the long-term competitiveness of such manufacturing.

(8) Working collaboratively with Federal agencies, State and local governments, Tribal governments, regional authorities, institutions of higher education, economic development organizations, and labor organizations that primarily represent workers in manufacturing to leverage their knowledge, resources, applied research, experimental development, and programs to foster manufacturing in the United States so as to anticipate and prepare for emergencies and global, national, and regional supply chain disruptions, including disruptions brought on and exacerbated by changing environmental and other circumstances.

(9) Recognizing that, as changing circumstances require the periodic revision and adaptation of this title, Congress is responsible for—

(A) identifying and interpreting the changes in those circumstances as they occur; and

(B) affecting subsequent changes to this title, as appropriate.

(c) Procedures.—It is the sense of Congress that, in order to expedite and facilitate the implementation of the national policy described in subsection (b)—

(1) Federal procurement policy should—

(A) prioritize and encourage domestic manufacturing and robust domestic supply chains;

(B) support means of expanding domestic manufacturing job creation;

(C) enhance manufacturing workforce preparedness;

(D) prioritize the development of means to support diversity and inclusion throughout the manufacturing and industrial sector;

(E) promote the consideration of, and support to, minority-owned and women-owned manufacturing contractors of the Federal Government; and

(F) support the ingenuity and entrepreneurship of the United States by providing enhanced attention to manufacturing startups and small businesses in the United States;

(2) Federal trade and monetary policies should—

(A) ensure that global competition in manufacturing is free, open, and fair;

(B) prioritize policies and investments that support domestic manufacturing growth and innovation; and

(C) not be utilized to offshore poor manufacturing working conditions or destructive manufacturing environmental practices;

(3) Federal policies and practices should reasonably prioritize competitiveness for manufacturing and industrial innovation efforts in the United States, but should not sacrifice the quality of employment opportunities, including the health and safety of workers, pay, and benefits;

(4) Federal manufacturing and industrial innovation policies, practices, and priorities should reasonably improve environmental sustainability within the manufacturing industry, while minimizing economic impact;

(5) Federal patent policies should be developed, based on uniform principles, which have as their objective to preserve incentives for industrial technological innovation and the application of procedures that will continue to assure the full use of beneficial technology to serve the public;

(6) Federal efforts should promote and support a strong system of intellectual property rights to include trade secrets, through both protection of intellectual property rights and enforcement against intellectual property theft, and broad engagement to limit foreign efforts to illegally or inappropriately utilize compromised intellectual property;

(7) closer relationships should be encouraged among practitioners of scientific and technological research and development and those who apply those foundations to domestic commercial manufacturing;

(8) the full use of the contributions of manufacturing and industrial innovation to support State and local government goals should be encouraged;

(9) formal recognition should be accorded to those persons, the manufacturing and industrial innovation achievements of which contributed significantly to the national welfare; and

(10) departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Federal Government should establish procedures to ensure among them the systematic interchange of data, efforts, and findings developed under their programs.

(d) Implementation.—To implement the national policy described in subsection (b), it is the sense of Congress—

(1) that—

(A) the Federal Government should maintain integrated policy planning elements in the executive branch that assist agencies in such branch in—

(i) identifying problems and objectives that could be addressed or enhanced by public policy;

(ii) mobilizing industrial and innovative manufacturing resources for national security and emergency response purposes;

(iii) securing appropriate funding for programs so identified by the President or the Chief Manufacturing Officer;

(iv) anticipating future concerns to which industrial and innovative manufacturing can contribute and devise industrial strategies for such purposes; and

(v) reviewing systematically the manufacturing and industrial innovation policy and programs of the Federal Government and recommending legislative amendments to those policies and programs when needed; and

(B) the elements described in subparagraph (A) should include a data collection, analysis, and advisory mechanism within the Executive Office of the President to provide the President with independent, expert judgment and assessments of the complex manufacturing and industrial features involved; and

(2) that it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to—

(A) promote prompt, effective, reliable, and systematic dissemination of manufacturing and industrial information—

(i) by such methods as may be appropriate; and

(ii) through efforts conducted by nongovernmental organizations, including industrial groups, technical societies, and educational entities;

(B) coordinate and develop a manufacturing industrial strategy and facilitate the close coupling of this manufacturing strategy with commercial manufacturing application; and

(C) enhance domestic development and utilization of such industrial information by prioritization of efforts with manufacturers, the production of which takes place in the United States.

There is established in the Executive Office of the President an Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Policy (referred to in this title as the “Office”) to serve as a source of manufacturing and industrial innovation analysis and judgment for the President with respect to the major policies, plans, and programs of the Federal Government relating to manufacturing and industrial innovation.

(a) Chief Manufacturing Officer.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—The Office shall be headed by a Director, to be known as the Chief Manufacturing Officer, who shall be—

(A) appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and

(B) compensated at the rate provided for level II of the Executive Schedule under section 5313 of title 5, United States Code.

(2) FUNCTIONS.—

(A) PRIMARY FUNCTION.—The primary function of the Chief Manufacturing Officer shall be to advise the President, and such agencies within the Executive Office of the President as may be appropriate, on issues regarding and impacting manufacturing and industrial innovation efforts of the Federal Government, or of the private sector, that require attention at the highest levels of the Federal Government.

(B) OTHER FUNCTIONS.—The Chief Manufacturing Officer shall—

(i) advise the President on manufacturing and industrial innovation considerations relating to areas of national concern, including—

(I) the economy of the United States;

(II) national security;

(III) public health;

(IV) the workforce of the United States;

(V) education;

(VI) foreign relations (including trade and supply chain issues);

(VII) the environment; and

(VIII) technological innovation in the United States;

(ii) convene stakeholders, including key industry stakeholders, academic stakeholders, defense stakeholders, government stakeholders, and stakeholders from nonprofit organizations and labor organizations that primarily represent workers in manufacturing, to develop the national strategic plan required under section 204;

(iii) evaluate the scale, quality, and effectiveness of the effort of the Federal Government to support manufacturing and industrial innovation by the Federal Government or by the private sector, and advise on appropriate actions;

(iv) advise the President on the budgets of agencies of the executive branch of the Federal Government with respect to issues concerning manufacturing and industrial innovation;

(v) assist the Director of the Office of Management and Budget with an annual review and analysis of the budget proposed by the President, with respect to manufacturing and industrial development by agencies in the executive branch;

(vi) aid the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the heads of agencies of the executive branch of the Federal Government throughout the budget development process, particularly with respect to developing budgets to support manufacturing and industrial development;

(vii) assist the President in providing general leadership and coordination of activities and policies of the Federal Government relating to and impacting manufacturing and industrial innovation; and

(viii) perform such other functions, duties, and activities as the President may assign.

(3) AUTHORITIES.—In carrying out the duties and functions under this Act, the Chief Manufacturing Officer may—

(A) except for the positions described in subsection (b), appoint such officers and employees as may be deemed necessary to perform the functions vested in the position and to prescribe the duties of such officers and employees;

(B) obtain services as authorized under section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, at rates not to exceed the rate prescribed for grade GS–15 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5, United States Code; and

(C) enter into contracts and other arrangements for studies, analysis, and other services with public agencies and with private persons, organizations, or institutions, and make such payments as determined necessary to carry out the provisions of this title without legal consideration, without performance bonds, and without regard to section 6101 of title 41, United States Code.

(b) Associate Directors.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—The President may appoint not more than 5 Associate Directors, to be known as Associate Manufacturing Officers, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to carry out such functions as may be prescribed by the Chief Manufacturing Officer.

(2) COMPENSATION.—Each Associate Manufacturing Officer shall be compensated at a rate not to exceed that provided for level III of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 title 5, United States Code.

(a) In general.—In carrying out the provisions of this Act, the Chief Manufacturing Officer shall—

(1) monitor the status of technological developments, critical production capacity, skill availability, investment patterns, emerging defense needs, and other key indicators of manufacturing competitiveness to—

(A) provide foresight for periodic updates to the national strategic plan required under section 204; and

(B) guide investment decisions;

(2) convene interagency and public-private working groups to align Federal policies that drive implementation of the national strategic plan required under section 204;

(3) initiate and support translation research in engineering and manufacturing by entering into contracts or making other arrangements (including grants, awards, cooperative agreements, loans, and other forms of assistance) to study that research and to assess the impact of that research on the economic well-being, climate and environmental impact, public health, and national security of the United States;

(4) advise the President on the extent to which the various programs, policies, and activities of the Federal Government are likely to affect the achievement of priority goals of the United States described in section 102(a);

(5) provide the President with—

(A) periodic reviews of Federal statutes and regulations that affect manufacturing and industrial innovation activities conducted by the Federal Government or the private sector, or which may interfere with desirable technological innovation; and

(B) recommendations for the elimination, reform, or updating of such Federal statutes and regulations, as appropriate;

(6) periodically survey the nature and needs of the policies relating to national manufacturing and industrial innovation and make recommendations to the President, for review and submission to Congress, for the timely and appropriate revision of the manufacturing and industrial innovation policies of the Federal Government;

(7) perform such other duties and functions and make and furnish such studies and reports thereon, and recommendations with respect to matters of policy and legislation as the President may request; and

(8) coordinate, as appropriate, Federal permitting with respect to manufacturing and industrial innovation.

(b) Intergovernmental Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Panel.—

(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Chief Manufacturing Officer shall establish an Intergovernmental Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Panel (referred to in this title as the “Panel”) within the Office, the purpose of which shall be to—

(A) identify instances in which the policies of the Federal Government—

(i) with respect to manufacturing and industrial innovation can help address problems at the State and local levels; and

(ii) unnecessarily impede manufacturing and industrial innovation;

(B) make recommendations for addressing the problems described in subparagraph (A); and

(C) advise and assist the Chief Manufacturing Officer in identifying and fostering policies to facilitate the application to and incorporation of federally funded research and development into manufacturing and industrial innovation in the United States, so as to maximize the application of such research.

Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives, and make available to the public, a report—