EconDefense
Record-specific actor routing

Follow through on IND-23

DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

This preserves the record’s role labels; it is not an additional verified institutional directory node.

Authority holder · recorded legal basis

Secretary of Defense

Executing office · routing lead

DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

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

Intake

Use the responsible program or contracting office for this instrument.

The recorded role is not itself a general application endpoint.

What this role does not control

A routing lead does not establish funds, an individual delegation or approval of the proposed action.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedThe record states funding rules and conditions; no program amount is attributed to this action.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementRole recordedRecorded executing role: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions. Use the responsible program’s process.

Selected instrument

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

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense

Eligibility gate

  • Critical-material determination
  • Processing in United States by statutory domestic sources
  • Compliance with §3501 and stockpile rules

Funding condition

  • Discretionary appropriations made available from Stockpile Transaction Fund after Dec.22,2023; FY27 CR restriction on initiating certain multiyear EOQ procurements must be assessed.

All recorded limits

  • Future-year payments subject to later appropriations
  • Not every foreign-origin or foreign-processed mineral qualifies
Contracts & purchases
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

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