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Materials and strategic stockpiles

Find how to acquire, process, qualify, lend or replenish strategic materials for defense reserves and reliable supply.

Groups can overlap. Counts are records, not distinct statutory powers. Executing roles below are routing leads, not verified delegations.

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Contracts & purchases

What this group is not: A contract or purchase tag is not general lending or equity authority; priorities, purchase commitments and financing-cost treatment remain distinct routes.

Basis: ACQ-35, ACQ-41, IND-01, IND-55

Example limit · IND-23: Not every foreign-origin or foreign-processed mineral qualifies

Recorded executing roles: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

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IND-23 · Long-term mineral procurement

Use multiyear and advance procurement for U.S.-processed critical minerals

Contract over multiple years and undertake advance procurement to support critical minerals processed domestically.

What this is not / limit: Not every foreign-origin or foreign-processed mineral qualifies

Executing role: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

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Loans & guarantees

What this group is not: A loan or guarantee is not equity, and a loan tag may describe lending materials or equipment rather than cash.

Basis: IND-03, IND-09, IND-21, INT-22

Example limit · IND-21: Material loans are not cash lending to private businesses

Recorded executing roles: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

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IND-21 · Materials lending and barter

Loan strategic materials and barter to maintain reserves

Loan stockpile material to DOE or military departments with repayment assurance; use authorized barter and fair-market-value materials transfers to pay acquisition or processing costs.

What this is not / limit: Material loans are not cash lending to private businesses

Executing role: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

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Other statutory tools

What this group is not: These pathways do not supply interchangeable powers or funds; each retains its own purpose, procedures and exclusions.

Basis: ACQ-43, FIN-01, FIN-11

Example limit · IND-19: Stockpile not for ordinary economic/budgetary purposes under §98a

Recorded executing roles: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

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IND-19 · 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.

What this is not / limit: Stockpile not for ordinary economic/budgetary purposes under §98a

Executing role: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

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IND-20 · Materials processing and recycling

Refine, recycle, recover and qualify strategic materials and sources

Process/rotate stockpile materials, recover strategic materials from federal waste/end-of-life equipment, qualify reliable-source facilities and contract for recycling.

What this is not / limit: Not a general municipal recycling or mining subsidy program

Executing role: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

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IND-22 · Minerals project development

Co-fund bankable feasibility studies for reliable mineral sources

Help fund technical/economic studies for strategic-material projects; associated project loans or debt purchases require separate DPA congressional authorization and Presidential determination.

What this is not / limit: Study authority alone is NOT authority to issue project loans or buy debt

Executing role: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

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