Project 2025 Tracker / What’s done, what’s next

14. Department of Health and Human Services · Minor

Reform the Strategic National Stockpile as supplier of last resort

Not started

492 14. Department of Health and Human Services

“The Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) should be reformed to consider the potential supply chain disruptions of pandemics or global conflicts. … The SNS should clarify its mission as supplier of last resort to the federal government, state governments, or first responders and key medical staff and should not portray itself as serving the public as a whole.”

What has happened

  1. Not started

    Moved nearby. ASPR's Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2026-2029 makes "Secure America's Medical Supply Chain" one of five agency goals, committing ASPR to a resilient medical supply chain for emergencies and citing the President's pharmaceutical-onshoring orders. It is a general goal in the ask's subject area and does not name this ask's object: the plan nowhere clarifies the Strategic National Stockpile's mission as supplier of last resort to the federal government, state governments or first responders rather than to the public, and the Center for the Strategic National Stockpile's own pages carry no such statement either. A planning document is `attempted` only where it names the object of the ask, so the plan sits here as dated Primary Evidence of action nearby and the rung stays down.

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

  • Federal Register full text “supplier of last resort” since 2025-01-20: 0 documents; “Strategic National Stockpile”: four documents, none a reform.

  • www.aspr.gov/readiness-response/medical-countermeasures-biodefense/sns/about-sns/who-we-are (opened 2026-08-28) describes the Center’s staff and leadership and carries no last-resort language and no date, so it is a lead rather than Evidence.

  • Set back to not started on 2026-09-01 under the rule for strategic plans, a rule that names this item: a planning document is attempted only where it names the object of the ask, and a general goal in the ask’s subject area is not started with the plan in the note. The plan stays on the event as Evidence of action nearby rather than lifting the Status. Contrast #989, where the same class of document does name its ask’s object and so clears the test.

Action
other
Object
Strategic National Stockpile
ID
1377