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Biden’s Secure Supply Chain Order Includes Defense Industry, Critical Minerals And Semiconductors

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, February 24th, 2021

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Biden’s Secure Supply Chain Order Includes Defense Industry, Critical Minerals And Semiconductors

President Joe Biden. Photo: White House

President Joe Biden on Wednesday issued an executive order tasking federal departments and agencies with assessing the nation’s supply chains for a number of products and sectors to find ways to make them more resilient and secure to eliminate vulnerabilities that can prevent access to critical goods. The executive order includes a focus on critical minerals, semiconductors, the defense industrial base (DIB), and the information and communications technology (ICT) industrial base. Pointing to recent shortages of personal protection equipment at…

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