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Creates a searchable, purpose-organized database of Defense Production Act (DPA) priority ratings, allocations, and other DPA assistance that the DPA Committee Chair must maintain and share with Committee members. The database must allow real-time updates by members while protecting classified and confidential information.
The bill centralizes and modernizes DPA priority and allocation records to improve speed and oversight during supply emergencies, but it increases costs, concentrates sensitive data and decisionmaking, and raises security and transparency risks.
The general public benefits from faster allocation of critical materials during supply emergencies because DPA Committee members can make real-time updates that speed decisionmaking.
Federal DPA Committee members get timely access to a consolidated, searchable record of priority ratings and allocations, improving oversight and interagency coordination.
Businesses and national-security stakeholders are better protected because the system applies information-security and classification controls to sensitive and proprietary DPA data.
Emergency planners and the public benefit from clearer tracking because DPA actions are organized by purpose (e.g., medical, defense), making it easier to target and evaluate allocations.
Businesses and the public face increased risk because centralizing sensitive DPA data creates a single attractive target that, if breached, could expose classified or proprietary information.
Federal employees and the public could experience operational errors or confusion because permitting multiple members to make real-time updates risks inconsistent or erroneous entries unless strong controls are enforced.
Taxpayers will bear additional administrative and IT costs because maintaining and securing a real-time, classified-capable database requires funding.
The public's access to information could be reduced because delegating classification and confidentiality decisions to the Chairperson concentrates discretion and may limit transparency.
Redesignates subsection (d) of 50 U.S.C. 4567 as subsection (e).
Redesignates subsection (e) of 50 U.S.C. 4567 as subsection (f).
Requires the Chairperson of the DPA Committee to maintain a database of priority ratings, allocations, and other assistance authorized under title I or title III, categorized by purpose.
Requires the database to be made available to all members of the DPA Committee.
Allows Committee members to make real-time updates to the database, subject to controls.
Primary effects fall on federal entities involved with the DPA: the Committee chair, Committee members, and agencies that rely on DPA priority ratings and allocations. Committee members gain faster, standardized access to allocation and priority data, which can improve coordination during supply chain or national defense responses. Agencies and government staff will need to support and use the database, creating modest administrative and IT work (design, maintenance, access control, and cybersecurity). Government contractors, manufacturers, and other recipients of DPA actions may see indirect benefits from clearer, faster decision-making but are not directly mandated to change behavior. The requirement to protect classified and confidential data adds technical and security obligations for the Chair and data managers.
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Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Introduced March 3, 2026 by Zach Nunn · Last progress March 3, 2026
Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
Introduced in House