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IND-19 / Materials and strategic stockpiles

Acquire, store, rotate and dispose of strategic and critical materials

Build and manage defense reserves with procurement, storage, processing and rotation; FY26 amendments permit disposal through the most recent annual materials plan rather than only transaction-specific disposal legislation.

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At a glance

Mission goalExpand production
Possible toolIND-19 · Other statutory tools
Legal basis50 U.S.C. § 98b

Authority holder: National Defense Stockpile Manager for §98e(a); President for reserved functions

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Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Strategic/critical material determination and stockpile requirements
  • Annual Materials and Operations Plan
  • Disposal notice within 15 days under amended §98d(b); applicable acquisition-plan changes and waiver/disposal waits reduced to 30 days

Limits & exclusions

  • Stockpile not for ordinary economic/budgetary purposes under §98a
  • Avoid undue market disruption; competition where feasible
  • Presidential emergency release power has distinct reserved conditions

Funding conditions

  • Stockpile Transaction Fund and acquisition appropriations/authorizations as applicable; disposals do not authorize general retention/spending beyond §98h.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • DLA Strategic Materials
  • Military Departments supplying requirement data
  • USD(A&S)
    Office profile

Resources

  • National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund
  • DLA finance

Approval

  • National Defense Stockpile Manager; President for reserved functions

Execution

  • DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

Partners & review

  • Strategic and Critical Materials Board
  • Commerce / State / Energy as applicable
  • Private miners, processors, recyclers

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

Confidence: High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.

Currentness: 2024 stockpile chapter read plus full FY26 §1411 amendments; do not use outdated 45-day waits or old transaction-specific disposal-authority formulation.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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