By Committee on Assessing the Need for a Defense Stockpile, National Research Council
Due to the fact that 1939, the U.S. govt, utilizing the nationwide security Stockpile (NDS), has been stockpiling severe strategic fabrics for nationwide safety. the commercial and nationwide defense environments, even though, have replaced considerably from the time the NDS used to be created. present threats are extra diverse, construction and processing of key fabrics is extra globally dispersed, the worldwide festival for uncooked fabrics is expanding, the U.S. army is extra depending on civilian undefined, and relies way more on just-in-time stock keep an eye on. to aid be certain the importance of those adjustments for the strategic fabrics stockpile, the dep. of safeguard requested the NRC to evaluate the ongoing desire for and cost of the NDS. This file starts off with the ancient context of the NDS. It then offers a dialogue of raw-materials and minerals offer, an exam of fixing safeguard making plans and fabrics wishes, an research of contemporary instruments used to control fabrics provide chains, and an overview of present operational practices of the NDS.
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The Executive Stockpile Committee was created under the White House Office of Emergency Planning (OEP) to examine the disposal of strategic and critical materials. A congressional investigation in 1962 Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. html 26 M a nag i n g M at e r i a l s for a Twenty-first Century Military and 1963 examined the operations of the stockpile in open hearings. An interdepartmental disposal committee was established by the director of the OEP in 1963 to develop long-range disposal plans for materials that were no longer required (OEP, 1965).
A new defense strategy was outlined in the 1992 National Military Strategy (NMS), and with changes in the geopolitical climate came a significant reevaluation of the reliability of foreign sources of materials beyond just the countries in the Caribbean basin. With the changing defense posture came a moratorium on stockpile purchases in 1992 as threat scenarios and country reliability estimates changed—and as DoD budgets were cut. These changes significantly reshaped policy toward the NDS. 1 billion in inventory) (McMillan, 1992).
All rights reserved. html Historical Context for the United States and other countries around the world. S. materials demands on the rest of the world’s supply were growing at a time when other nations’ demands were growing even faster (NCMP, 1973). The NCMP report said that in the past the United States had had little difficulty importing the minerals it needed but suggested that the situation might change because of (1) increasing competition for scarce resources and (2) the possibility of actions to restrict supplies and/or increase prices.