To require a strategy and report by the Secretary of Defense regarding the impact on small businesses of the requirement to use radio frequency identifier technology.

1. Adds SEC. 846. RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFIER TECHNOLOGY on page 237, line 17

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   Inserted: SEC. 846. RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFIER TECHNOLOGY.

   Inserted: (a) Small Business Strategy.--As part of implementing its requirement that contractors use radio frequency identifier technology, the Secretary of Defense shall develop and implement a strategy to educate the small business community regarding radio frequency identifier technology requirements, compliance, standards, and opportunities.

   Inserted: (b) Reporting.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit a report to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Small Business and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives detailing the status of the efforts by the Secretary of Defense to establish requirements for radio frequency identifier technology used in Department of Defense contracting, including--

   Inserted: (A) standardization of the data required to be reported by such technology; and

   Inserted: (B) standardization of the manufacturing quality required for such technology; and

   Inserted: (C) the status of the efforts of the Secretary of Defense to develop and implement a strategy to educate the small business community, as required by subsection (a)(2).

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