Mission:
To decrease and preclude dependence upon foreign sources or single points of failure for strategic materials in times of national emergency.
Vision:
Subject matter experts solving the strategic and critical material needs for national defense.
Purpose:
Provide for the:
- Operation and oversight of the National Defense Stockpile
- Acquisition and retention of stockpile materials
- Conversion and upgrade of stockpile materials to prevent obsolescence
- Development and Qualification of domestic sources of strategic materials
- Recycling of strategic materials from end-of-life Government items
- Disposal of excess stocks for operational funding