Read the report SAFE’s Center for Strategic Industrial Materials’ report, Strategic Loads: America’s Aluminum Deficit is an Energy Problem, finds that the decline of U.S. primary aluminum production is fundamentally a challenge of electricity cost and reliability. Action to ensure long-term affordable, reliable power is essential to reverse the decades-long decline in domestic capacity and […]
SAFE’s Center for Critical Minerals Strategy’s report, Critical Moves: Crowding in Capital to Finance Minerals Supply Chains, warns that the West’s ability to build secure, diversified critical minerals supply chains now hinges less on where minerals are found, than on whether governments can mobilize capital fast enough to develop them. The report concludes that the core constraint […]
Read the report Public focus on US-China competition has centered on advanced technologies, semiconductors, and critical minerals. But major metals remain an essential and underappreciated foundation of economic and military power. Steel is essential for warships, submarines, armored vehicles, infrastructure, and specialty alloys. Aluminum is critical for aerospace and advanced defense systems, including high-performance aircraft. Copper is essential […]
SAFE’s Coalition for Reimagined Mobility’s new policy brief From Waivers to Scale: How BVLOS Modernizes America’s Low-Altitude Infrastructure frames Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) drone operations as a national low-altitude infrastructure upgrade, replacing today’s waiver patchwork with a rules-based, interoperable pathway that can scale routine drone operations safely across critical infrastructure, public safety, and logistics. Key […]
The current national emphasis on meeting the power demands of AI and data centers is urgent, but the U.S. must also focus on providing the energy needs of five manufacturing sectors that are key to the nation’s defense readiness: semiconductor fabrication, aluminum smelting, automobile manufacturing, steelmaking, and petroleum refining. SAFE’s Center for Grid Security’s latest […]
