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[CITE: 10USC4552]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                            Subtitle B--Army
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
                 CHAPTER 434--ARMAMENTS INDUSTRIAL BASE
 
Sec. 4552. Policy

    It is the policy of the United States--
        (1) to encourage, to the maximum extent practicable, 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;
        (4) to support policies and programs that provide manufacturers 
    with incentives to assist the United States in making more efficient 
    and economical use of eligible facilities 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;
        (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 national technology 
    and industrial base within 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; and
        (9) to encourage facility use contracting where feasible.

(Added Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title III, Sec. 344(a)(1)], 
Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-67.)
