Embedded Materials: Strategic Materials Associated with U.S. Imports of Parts and End-Items

Abstract

The Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) has developed, within the context of the Risk Assessment and Mitigation Framework for Strategic Materials (RAMF-SM), a method for estimating the quantities of strategic materials that are associated with U.S. imports of parts and end-items that contain these strategic materials. These quantities are often referred to as embedded materials: they are embedded in imported goods, so United States industry does not need to use that amount of material to produce those goods. This paper presents some background, describes the estimation methodology, and presents a set of such estimates based on the data used to support the analyses for the Strategic and Critical Materials 2015 Report on Stockpile Requirements (U.S. Department of Defense, 2015).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1003118

Entities

People

  • Eleanor L. Schwartz
  • James S. Thomason

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Department Of Defense
  • Economic Models
  • End Items
  • Governments
  • Materials
  • Materials Testing
  • National Security
  • Production
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Steady State
  • Stockpiles
  • Strategic Materials
  • United States
  • United States Government

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