DLA National Defense Stockpile (FY2025 Annual Materials Plan)
Defense Logistics Agency — Strategic Materials · FY2024+1 plan · 61 materials in stockpile
Stockpile of materials acquired by DOD against wartime supply disruption. The Annual Materials Plan (AMP) governs acquisition and disposal targets. Shortfall categories driven by DOD's biennial Strategic and Critical Materials Report.
Key figures
Materials in stockpile (FY2024 AMP)
61
Material shortfall growth FY2019 → FY2023
+167% (per GAO-24-106959)
Highlighted shortfall materials
Selected materials with persistent shortfalls or recent acquisition activity. Full per-material quantities are published annually in the Federal Register.
| Material | Defense use |
|---|---|
| Antimony | Flame retardants, ammunition primers, bearings. |
| Cobalt | Jet engine superalloys, batteries. |
| Germanium | Night-vision optics, infrared sensors. |
| Gallium | GaN/GaAs radar and EW electronics. |
| Indium | Touchscreens, solder for cryogenic equipment. |
| Lithium | Batteries; previously held as Li metal & compounds. |
| Manganese | Steel alloying — all primary supply imported. |
| Niobium | Superalloys; Brazil dominates supply. |
| Platinum | Catalysts in industrial and defense applications. |
| Rare Earths Linked to neodymium as representative REE. | Permanent magnets, lasers, optics; mostly imported. |
| Tantalum | Capacitors, missile electronics. |
| Tin | Solders, bearings, defense electronics. |
| Tungsten | Penetrators, armor, cutting tools. |
Notes
Full per-material acquisition/disposal quantities are proposed annually in the Federal Register notice (Sep 5, 2023, for FY2024). Full FY2025 AMP is referenced from the DLA site above; detailed scraping deferred to a later session.