{
  "id": "IND-23",
  "category": "Long-term mineral procurement",
  "capability": "Use multiyear and advance procurement for U.S.-processed critical minerals",
  "summary": "Contract over multiple years and undertake advance procurement to support critical minerals processed domestically.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 98e-2",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98e-2&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 3501",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3501&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense",
  "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": [
    "Critical-material determination",
    "Processing in United States by statutory domestic sources",
    "Compliance with §3501 and stockpile rules"
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Future-year payments subject to later appropriations",
    "Not every foreign-origin or foreign-processed mineral qualifies"
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Discretionary appropriations made available from Stockpile Transaction Fund after Dec.22,2023; FY27 CR restriction on initiating certain multiyear EOQ procurements must be assessed."
  ],
  "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 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.",
  "family": "Materials and strategic stockpiles",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Contracts & purchases"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "expand-production"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "usd-acquisition-sustainment",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(A&S)"
    }
  ]
}