Month: November 2025

The Pentagon reduced the department’s roster of critical technology areas (CTAs), cutting the list by more than half. Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael on Monday unveiled six CTAs – down from the previous 14 – that he said will define the military’s future capabilities. The new list includes applied artificial intelligence, biomanufacturing, contested logistics technologies, quantum and battlefield information dominance, scaled directed energy, and scaled hypersonics.

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The Energy Act of 2020 defined critical minerals as those commodities which are essential to the economic or national security of the U.S.; have a supply chain that is vulnerable to disruption; and serve an essential function in the manufacturing of a product, the absence of which would have significant consequences for the economic or national security of the U.S.
The 2025 List of Critical Minerals has been posted in the Federal Register. The List contains all 50 critical minerals from the 2022 List, plus an additional 10 critical minerals. More information can be found in the Federal Register Notice.

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