1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Act . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) the industrial sector— (A) represents approximately 20 percent of the economy of the United States; (B) provides approximately 13 percent of employment in the United States; and (C) accounts for more than 30,000,000,000,000,000 Btus of energy, a quantity that is equal to almost 1/3 of the energy consumption of the United States; (2) smart manufacturing is set to transform the manufacturing sector and the use by the manufacturing sector of energy, water, raw materials, and labor over the 10 years following the date of enactment of this Act; (3) the transformation described in paragraph (2) will result in savings in electricity, natural gas, transportation fuels, chemical feedstocks, and many other fuels; (4) the interconnection of the many components of manufacturing within a manufacturing plant with other business functions within a company and across companies within a supply chain will enable new production efficiencies; (5) the improvements in automation described in paragraph (4) are estimated to produce between $5,000,000,000 and $25,000,000,000 in energy savings per year across the manufacturing sector for electricity alone by 2035; (6) smart manufacturing technologies are estimated to add between $10,000,000,000,000 and $15,000,000,000,000 to the global gross domestic product over 20 years following the date of enactment of this Act; (7) market barriers exist to the widespread adoption of smart manufacturing practices by all sizes of firms and to the investment in smart manufacturing technologies, including lack of— (A) common communication protocols between smart manufacturing devices, which prevents interoperability, reduces system efficiencies, and stifles innovation; (B) common standards for storing and sharing information relating to energy consumption and energy savings