Promoting Resilient Supply Chains Act of 2025

Key provisions

• Eight New Assistant Secretary Responsibilities
  • Promote stability and resilience of critical supply chains and critical and emerging technologies
  • Lead the Supply Chain Resilience Working Group and consult nongovernmental representatives, industry, higher education, and State/local governments
  • Encourage U.S. production and manufacturing of emerging technologies
  • Assess resilience, diversity, and strength of critical supply chains and critical and emerging technologies
  • In consultation with the Secretary of State and USTR, support availability of critical goods from domestic manufacturers and allies/key international partner nations
  • Assist the Federal Government in preparing for and responding to supply chain shocks
  • Encourage reduced reliance of domestic enterprises/manufacturers on critical goods from countries described in section 7(2)(B)
  • Encourage relocation of critical-good manufacturing to the United States and allies/partners
• Supply Chain Resilience Working Group (10 Agencies)
  • Established within 120 days of enactment
  • Composed of Federal agencies that rely on the Industry and Analysis business unit's analysis
  • Enumerated members: Department of State; Department of Defense; Department of Homeland Security; Department of Transportation; Department of Energy; Department of Agriculture; Department of the Interior; Department of Health and Human Services; Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Small Business Administration
• 1-Year Activities in Consultation with the Working Group
  • Assess, map, and model critical supply chains, including for critical and emerging technologies
  • Identify high-priority gaps and vulnerabilities in critical supply chains and critical industries
  • Identify potential supply chain shocks to a critical supply chain
  • Evaluate capability and capacity of domestic and allied manufacturers to source critical goods, production equipment, and manufacturing technology
  • Evaluate market-stability effects of supply chain disruption
  • Evaluate the manufacturing workforce and identify opportunities to create high-quality manufacturing jobs
  • Identify tools (including commercially available risk assessment tools) that leverage data and industry expertise for supply chain vulnerability insight
• 120-Day Designations of Critical Industries/Supply Chains/Goods
  • Assistant Secretary designates critical industries, critical supply chains, and critical goods within 120 days of enactment
  • Public comment period required
  • Designations updated not less than once every 4 years
• Reports and National Strategy
  • Implementation report to the relevant committees within 1 year after enactment
  • National strategy and review of critical supply chain resiliency and manufacturing within 18 months, annually thereafter — with an unclassified report and optional classified annex
  • Reports may not include non-aggregated critical supply chain information, confidential business information, or classified information (except in the optional classified annex)
  • Department of Commerce capability assessment due within 2 years of enactment, with recommendations and an implementation strategy
• Voluntary Information Protections
  • Voluntarily submitted critical supply chain information (with the specified express statement) is exempt from FOIA under 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(3)
  • Not subject to ex parte communication rules
  • May not be used against the submitter (without written consent) in civil actions or by other Federal/State/local authorities
  • May not be disclosed by federal officers for purposes other than this section — narrow exceptions for criminal investigation/prosecution and specified congressional/GAO oversight
  • Not a waiver of trade-secret or other legal protections
  • Does not apply to voluntary submissions in an application for federal financial assistance under section 9902 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry NDAA for FY2021 (Public Law 116-283)
• No Additional Funds; 10-Year Sunset
  • Section 5: no additional funds are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this title
  • Section 6: the title and all its requirements, responsibilities, and obligations terminate 10 years after the date of enactment