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 106 STAT. 2348 PUBLIC LAW 102-484—OCT. 23, 1992 (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 defense industrifid base of the United States tiiat is consistent with the projected threats to the national security of the United States and the projected emergency requirements of the Armed Forces of the United States; and (9) to encoiu>age facility contracting where feasible. SEC. 198. ARMAMENT RETOOLING AND BIANUFACTURING SUPPORT INITIATIVE. (a) AUTHORITY FOR INITIATIVE. —During fiscal years 1993 and 1994, the Secretary of the Army may carry out a program to be known as the "Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative" (hereinafter in this subtitle referred to as the "ARMS Initiative"). (b) PURPOSES.— The purposes of the ARMS Initiative are as follows: (1) To encourage commercial firms, to the maximum extent practicable, to use Government-owned, contractor-operated ammunition manufacturing facilities of the Department of the Army for commercial purposes. (2) To increase the opportunities for small businesses (including socially and economically disadvantaged small business concerns and new small businesses) to use such facilities for those purposes. (3) To reduce the adverse efiTects of reduced Department of the Army spending that are experienced by States and communities by providing for such facilities to be used for commercial purposes that create jobs and promote prosperity. (4) To provide for the reemployment and retraining of skilled workers who, as a result of the closing of such facilities, are idled or underemployed. (5) To contribute to the attainment of economic stability in economically depressed regions of the United States where there are Government-owned, contractor-operated ammunition manufacturing facilities of the Department of the Army. (6) To maintain in the United States a work force having the skills in manufacturing processes that are necessary to meet industrial emergency planned requirements for national security purposes. (7) To be a model for fiiture defense conversion initiatives. (8) To the maximum extent practicable, to allow the operation of Government-owned, contractor-operated ammunition manufacturing facilities of the Department of the Army to be rapidly responsive to the forces offireemarket competition. (9) Tluxjugh the use of Government-owned, contractor-operated ammunition manufacturing facilities for commercial purposes, to encourage relocation of industrial production to the United Statesfromoutside the United States. (c) AVAILABILITY OF FACILITIES.— The Secretary of the Army may make the Government-owned, contractor-operated ammunition manufacturing facilities of the Department of the Army available for the purposes of the ARMS Initiative.

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