{
  "id": "IND-19",
  "category": "Strategic stockpiles",
  "capability": "Acquire, store, rotate and dispose of strategic and critical materials",
  "summary": "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.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 98b",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98b&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 98d",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98d&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 98e",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98e&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 98h",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98h&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §1411",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "National Defense Stockpile Manager for §98e(a); President for reserved functions",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "DLA Strategic Materials",
      "Military Departments supplying requirement data",
      "USD(A&S)"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund",
      "DLA finance"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "National Defense Stockpile Manager; President for reserved functions"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Strategic and Critical Materials Board",
      "Commerce / State / Energy as applicable",
      "Private miners, processors, recyclers"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DLA FY2025 National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund Agency Financial Report",
      "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/J8Finance/DLA%20FY25%20NDSTF%20AFR.pdf"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "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": [
    "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": [
    "Stockpile Transaction Fund and acquisition appropriations/authorizations as applicable; disposals do not authorize general retention/spending beyond §98h."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.",
  "availability": "Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.",
  "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.",
  "family": "Materials and strategic stockpiles",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "expand-production"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "usd-acquisition-sustainment",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(A&S)"
    }
  ]
}