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PUBLIC LAW 100-456—SEPT. 29, 1988

102 STAT. 2013

(C) Establishing a formal independent means within the Department of Defense to ensure quality, integrity, and professionalism in the performance of audit and oversight activities. (D) Establishing and implementing a policy that prohibits an organization within the Department of Defense with responsibility for oversight of contractor activities from conducting an audit or review of an activity in the Department of Defense if another such oversight organization of the Department of Defense has conducted an audit or review of that activity within a fixed period of time preceding the proposed audit or review, unless the audit or review proposed to be conducted is substantially different in type and scope from the prior audit or review and there is a compelling reason not to rely on the prior audit or review. (c) DEADLINE FOR REPORT.—The report required by subsection (a) shall be submitted not later than December 1, 1988. (d) COORDINATION OF ANNUAL AUDIT PLANS BY AUDIT AND OVERSIGHT ELEMENTS OF DOD.—Section 133(d)(l) of title 10, United States

Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: "Such policies shall provide for coordination of the annual plans developed by each such element for the conduct of audit and oversight functions within each contracting activity.". PART B—DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE

SEC. 821. MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL BASE (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: lo use 2501 (1) A strong defense industrial base in the United States is note. essential to the national security and significantly enhances the capability of United States manufacturers and producers— (A) to develop technologically superior defense material rapidly and to produce such material efficiently in costeffective quantities during peacetime; and (B) to expand productive capacity rapidly to meet the demands of a national emergency. (2) A strong and responsive defense industrial base is a basic deterrent to aggression and, thus, helps to preserve peace. (3) Studies conducted over a 10-year period by Congress, the General Accounting Office, the Department of Defense, and others have consistently shown a steady, unchecked erosion of the defense industrial base in the United States. (4) Despite the uniformly adverse findings contained in the reports on such studies, the United States still lacks a coherent industrial base policy that is directly linked to national security strategy. (5) Reliable methods for assessing the weaknesses and strengths of the defense industrial base have not been utilized. (6) The development and implementation of an effective program for the restoration and maintenance of the defense industrial base is unlikely to occur without improved centralized policy direction and management. (7) Existing programs and authorities designed to restore and maintain the defense industrial base have received inconsistent and, frequently, inadequate allocations of resources and

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