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Lawmakers and experts warn rare‑earth, workforce and budget shortfalls threaten U.S. space competitiveness
Summary
Members and witnesses warned that processing bottlenecks for critical minerals, cuts to federal science funding and a thinning NASA workforce risk U.S. industrial capacity and long‑term leadership in space; they urged stable demand signals and investment for suppliers and the science pipeline.
Members of the House Science subcommittee used expert testimony to focus on the industrial underpinnings of U.S. space power: processing of critical minerals, single‑source suppliers in civil space supply chains, and the federal role in sustaining a skilled science and engineering workforce.
Representative McCormack (speaker 13) and others pressed witnesses on how to break dependence…
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