President Donald Trump signed an important executive order designed to ensure U.S. defense contractors no longer buy critical minerals from China. This is just the latest in a series of administration moves to enhance the security of our most critical supply chains.
Securing Supply Chains
The Pentagon has been leading the way with a sharpened focus on increasing production across our nation’s defense-related industrial base. Simply stated, we cannot allow Chinese control of any material vital to our war-fighting capabilities.
Supply chain vetting is entirely consistent with the administration’s strategy for U.S. economic growth, which relies on a renewed push to onshore manufacturing rather than rely on imports from unregulated and unreliable suppliers. That’s good for the U.S. labor force and a great benefit to our national security.
A recent agreement signed between U.S. company ReconCraft and Ukrainian company Uforce to produce drone boats in Portland, Oregon, marks the first time a U.S. manufacturer will produce drone boats as part of the Pentagon’s push to increase its capacity of autonomous weapons.
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