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• Higher risk of and uncertainty about supply disruptions owing to the fragmentation of global supply chains. Modern minerals supply chains to U.S.
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Conclusion 4: Owing to changes in the global threat environment and changes in the U.S. industrial base, the emergence of new demands on materials supplies, the ineffectiveness of the National Defense Stockpile, and the resultant potential for new disruptions to the supply chains for defense-critical materials, the committee believes there is a need for a new approach in the form of a national defense-materials management system.
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• Use all available tools to support and stabilize robust supply chains in the increasingly changeable and global environment for materials supply, including the holding of a materials inventory that would serve as a flexible, continuously changing buffer stock with constant and timely management for restocking and balance. • Provide the option of partnering with private industry as well as options for outsourcing and offshoring.
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It must be able to obtain accurate data on: • The geographic locations of secure supplies of critical materials and of alternate supplies; • The potential for market and geopolitical disruptions as well as logistical and transportation upsets and the risks posed by them; • The use of materials in defense applications, in the non-defense industrial sectors of the United States, and in the rest of the world's large commodity-consuming nations.
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With the changing nature of U.S. manufacturing against a backdrop of increasingly global and fragmented supply chains for materials, products, and systems , and the trend in defense acquisition of sourcing systems, subsystems, and components increasingly from foreign suppliers, assessing the future need for a national stockpile only becomes more complex.
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of Beryllium HPP in inventory of which 121 ST has been authorized for sale but which is being held pending a determination of whether the HPP should continue to be held Department of Defense needs or Department of Energy needs. Twenty-five commodities are available for sale: Aluminum Oxide Manganese Ore, Metallurgical grade Beryllium Copper Master Alloy Manganese Ore, battery grade Beryllium, vacuum cast Mica Chromium Metal Platinum Cobalt Talc, block/lump Columbium Metal Ingots Talc, ground Diamond Stones Tantalum Carbide Powder Ferrochromium,High-Carbon Tin Ferrochromium, Low Carbon Tungsten Metal Powder Germanium Tungsten Ores and Concentrates Iodine Vegetable Tannin Iridium Zinc Manganese Ferro High Carbon NDS also stores mercury, which is not available for sale and is expected to be shipped to the Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada during 2007.
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