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

4. Department of Defense · Minor

Review and reprioritize sectors targeted for onshoring or friendshoring

Partially done

Printed page 97 4. Department of Defense

“Review the sectors currently prioritized for onshoring or "friendshoring" of manufacturing (kinetic capabilities, castings and forgings, critical materials, microelectronics, space, and electric vehicle batteries); evaluate them according to the strategic landscape; and expand or reprioritize the list as appropriate.”

What has happened

  1. Partially done

    EO 14415 sec. 3 orders supply-chain mapping and illumination for all Department of War acquisitions that relate to national security, from raw materials to end items, with implementing regulations to follow — the evaluation step the Quote asks for. The FY2027 Budget then "dramatically expands" investment in critical minerals and domestic supply chains, funding National Defense Stockpile shortfalls. No republished or reprioritized sector list has appeared on an allowlisted source.

  2. Partially done

    The FY2026 NDAA reweights the sectors rather than republishing the list: sec. 832 requires enhanced defense supply chain resilience and secondary source qualification, sec. 838 requires an assessment of Department-owned critical infrastructure dependent on foreign materials or components, and sec. 842 prohibits acquiring advanced batteries from certain foreign sources — a reprioritization away from the electric-vehicle battery entry the Quote names. Public Law 119-21 had already put $2 billion into the National Defense Stockpile for critical minerals and $200 million and $400 million into the established and emerging solid rocket motor industrial base.

Research log

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

Research notes

The Quote’s list — kinetic capabilities, castings and forgings, critical materials, microelectronics, space, and electric vehicle batteries — is the Department’s industrial-base priority-sector list. No reissued list was published; what happened is a visible reweighting toward critical minerals and munitions and away from batteries.

This item was also covered by one negative search run across its whole cluster of related asks in this Chapter.

Action
other
Object
list of sectors prioritized for onshoring/friendshoring
ID
151