106 STAT. 4200 PUBLIC LAW 102-558—OCT. 28, 1992

"(A) improve domestic defense industrial base efficiency
and responsiveness;

"(B) reduce the time required for industrial mobiliza-
tion in the event of an attack on the United States; or
"(C) to respond to actions occurring outside of the
United States which could result in the termination or
reduction of the availability of strategic and critical mate-
rials, including energy, and which could adversely affect
the national defense preparedness of the United States;
"(7) in order to ensure national defense preparedness, which
is essential to national security, it is necessary and appropriate
to assure the availability of domestic energy supplies for
national defense needs;

"(8) to further assure the adequate maintenance of the
defense industrial base, to the maximum extent possible, such
supplies should be augmented through reliance on renewable
fuels, including solar, geothermal, and wind energy and ethanol
and its derivatives, and on energy conservation measures;

"(9) the domestic defense industrial base is a component
part of the core industrial capacity of the Nation;

"(10) much of the industrial capacity which is relied upon

by the Federal Government for military production and otner

defense-related purposes is deeply and directly influenced by—

"(A) the overall competitiveness of the United States

industrial economy; and

"(B) the ability of United States industry, in general,
to produce internationally competitive products and operate
profitably while maintaining adequate research and devel-
opment to preserve that competitive edge in the future,
with respect to military and civilian production;
"(11) the domestic defense industrial base is developing
a growing dependency on foreign sources for critical components
and materials used in manufacturing and assembling major
weapons systems for the national defense;

(12) such dependence is threatening the capability of many
critical industries to respond rapidly to defense production
needs in the event of war or other hostilities or diplomatic
confrontation; and

"(13) the inability of United States industry, especially
smaller subcontractors and suppliers, to provide vital parts
and components and other materials would impair our ability
to sustain United States Armed Forces in combat for longer
than a short period.

"(b) STATEMENT OF POLICY.—It is the policy of the United-
States that—

"(1) in order to ensure productive capacity in the event
of an attack on the United states, the United States should
encourage the geographic dispersal of industrial facilities in
the United States to discourage the concentration of such pro-
ductive facilities within limited geographic areas which are
vulnerable to attack by an enemy of the United States;

"(2) to ensure that essential mobilization requirements are
met, consideration should also be given to stockpiling strategic
materials to the extent that such stockpiling is economical
and feasible;

"(3) in the construction of any Government-owned indus-
trial facility, in the rendition of any Government financial