Sponsor
Elissa Slotkin
Senator · D-MI
Senator · D-MI
Official title: Promote innovation and advanced manufacturing in the Department of Defense and the defense industrial base, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 8, 2025 by Elissa Slotkin · Last progress July 8, 2025
The bill accelerates DoD adoption of advanced and additive manufacturing to improve readiness and supply‑chain resilience and to grow a domestic advanced‑manufacturing base, but it requires substantial taxpayer investment, creates implementation and quality‑assurance challenges, and shifts benefits toward larger, vetted suppliers while tightening controls on certain foreign technologies.
Millions of service members and deployed units get faster access to replacement and repair parts because the DoD will certify and field additively/advanced-manufactured parts, enable in‑house and local/expeditionary production, and centralize technical data to speed prototyping-to-fielding.
U.S. defense suppliers, researchers, and regional partners gain expanded market and R&D opportunities as DoD procurement and hubs promote domestic advanced manufacturing capacity, shared equipment, and coordinated R&D/licensing that can spur private investment and create skilled local jobs.
Supply-chain resilience improves through decentralization (local/expeditionary production), critical‑parts lists, and preferential domestic sourcing, reducing reliance on single-source or long lead‑time suppliers for mission‑critical systems.
Taxpayers face substantial near‑term costs because establishing regional hubs, buying or leasing equipment, standing up certification programs, and funding the 1,000,000-part targets and in‑house capabilities require significant DoD investment and sustainment funding.
Rushed or expedited qualification and broader adoption of additively manufactured parts risks safety, reliability, and performance problems for safety‑critical systems if testing, lifecycle evaluation, and certification are insufficiently rigorous.
Implementation and oversight burdens will rise—DoD needs extra staffing, coordination, and processes (plus management of waivers and foreign‑technology exemptions)—creating administrative costs and potential inconsistent application that Congress may have to police.
Based on analysis of 12 sections of legislative text.
Directs DoD to accelerate adoption of advanced/additive manufacturing, set up regional hubs and certification programs, expand logistics authority, and ban certain foreign AM machines/software.
Creates a DoD-wide push to accelerate adoption of advanced and additive manufacturing for defense parts, materials, and sustainment. It directs new guidance, manuals, regional dual‑use hubs, qualification and certification programs, and targets (including 1,000,000 advanced‑manufactured parts by 2027) while restricting procurement/use of certain foreign‑made additive manufacturing machines and software from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The bill updates statutory panels, expands logistics authority to include commercial advanced/digital manufacturing near points of use, requires coordination with existing DoD manufacturing initiatives, and sets multiple deadlines for plans, certifications, tests, and reports to the congressional defense committees.