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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6456. Mr. HICKENLOOPER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle E of title X, insert the following:
SEC. 1050. REPORT ON CRITICAL DEFENSE MINERAL REQUIREMENTS
AND MUNITIONS SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCY.
(a) In General.—Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in
coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for
Acquisition and Sustainment, the Director of the Defense
Logistics Agency Strategic Materials, and the Director of the
United States Geological Survey, shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report assessing critical
defense mineral requirements, stockpile alignment, and supply
chain vulnerabilities for munitions production.
(b) Elements.—The report required by subsection (a) shall
include the following:
(1) An assessment of the critical minerals and materials
required—
(A) to replenish munitions expended in operations of the
United States Central Command since February 2026 to pre-
conflict inventory levels;
(B) to achieve munitions inventory objectives across a
range of contingency scenarios for the Indo-Pacific region of
varying duration and intensity, reported as a demand range
rather than a single estimate; and
(C) to estimate the duration for which stockpile holdings
and supply arrangements as of the date of the enactment of
this Act can sustain munitions production at required rates
before surge production in the United States or allies of the
United States is required to provide replacement supply.
(2) For each critical mineral identified under paragraph
(1), a comprehensive mapping of sole-source and near-sole-
source chokepoints, and chokepoints controlled by the
People's Republic of China or other adversaries of the United
States, across extraction, processing, refining, fabrication,
and component manufacturing stages, assessed by mineral and
by munition system.
(3) An analysis of the alignment of the composition of the
National Defense Stockpile with the mineral requirements
identified under paragraph (1), including—
(A) critical minerals for which no stockpile holding exists
as of the date of the enactment of this Act;
(B) whether stockpiled minerals are held in forms and
grades usable by the munitions industrial base without
intermediate processing that reintroduces foreign dependency;
and
(C) critical defense mineral requirements associated with
munitions programs of record in development or early
production that are not captured in the assessment under
paragraph (1).
(4) A munition-to-materials crosswalk for munitions and
interceptors, detailing the critical defense minerals,
energetics, materials, and industrial inputs required for
production, including identification of the principal drivers
of replenishment risk.
(5) A prioritized assessment of the 10 most significant
mineral, material, component, industrial, or processing
bottlenecks limiting munitions replenishment and inventory
reconstitution.
(6) Recommendations for addressing the vulnerabilities
identified under paragraphs (1) through (5), including—
(A) stockpile acquisition priorities and any additional
legislative authorities or appropriations required to close
identified gaps;
(B) agreements with countries that are allies or partners
of the United States necessary to establish assured supply
arrangements for minerals and materials subject to adversary-
controlled chokepoints; and
(C) a plan for establishing a standing analytic capability
within the Department of Defense—
(i) to translate operational munitions expenditure into
critical defense mineral demand requirements; and
(ii) to integrate critical mineral supply chain assessments
into munitions acquisition milestone decisions, inventory
management, and force-planning decisions.
(c) Form.—The report required by subsection (a) shall be
submitted in unclassified form but may include a classified
annex.