Legislation in the U.S. House seeks to improve the nation’s supply chain. Congressman Fred Upton and colleagues this week introduced the Manufacturing.gov Act. He tells us it aims to increase domestic manufacturing of vital goods.
“We’ve introduced legislation that would establish a website that would connect manufacturers with federal manufacturing programs,” Upton said. “There’s a similar bill that passed in October through the Senate. Let’s do these products and get the jobs here in this country, rather than rely on folks like China and overseas that may, in fact, threaten the supply chain if we’re not able to it done here.
Upton says the last couple of years have shown vulnerabilities in the supply chain as things like personal protection equipment and automotive chips were in demand. The bill aims to make federal programs and resources more accessible to manufacturers across the country.
