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Panel urges renewed U.S. investment in manufacturing, critical materials and mining workforce
Summary
Witnesses argued the U.S. must rebuild advanced manufacturing and domestic critical-materials capability, coordinate federal agencies, and expand mining and extractive engineering education to reduce strategic dependence.
Committee members and witnesses identified rebuilding manufacturing capacity and supply chains — including mining, refining and workforce training for critical materials — as essential to economic and national-security competitiveness.
Dr. Walter Copan urged coordinated agency action involving the Department of Energy, Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey and the Department of Defense, and said the United States must “rebuild our…
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