Ensuring an Adequate Safe Supply of Critical Minerals and Strategic Materials: An Optimization Approach for Supply Chain Modeling : Institute for Defense Analyses , April 22 , 2025
Ensuring an Adequate Safe Supply of Critical Minerals and Strategic Materials: An Optimization Approach for Supply Chain Modeling : Institute for Defense Analyses , April 22 , 2025
From the document: “Background: National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Program
• DLA Strategic Materials operates and maintains a stockpile of strategic and critical materials; the Office of the Secretary of Defense manages the program
• Stockpiled material may be used to produce goods and services required for essential civilian and defense needs • IDA supports DoD by helping to estimate and identify essential demands for S&CMs, safe supplies, gaps, and priorities for filling any gaps
• For this work, IDA uses a framework called “RAMF-SM” (Risk Assessment and Mitigation Framework for Strategic Materials)
• RAMF-SM informs:
• Biennial reports to Congress on the National Defense Stockpile (1990s–present) • Prioritized investments for strategic materials based on an ROI strategy • “Deep dive” assessments and supply chain mapping of key strategic materials or components • Business case analyses identifying risk mitigation strategies beyond stockpiling (e.g., expanding domestic capacity, qualifying new suppliers)”"
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