SAFE Commanding Heights is a bipartisan initiative dedicated to advancing reliable sourcing – and reducing unsustainable dependencies – for products and materials essential to America’s energy, transportation, and national security needs.
We advance policies that:
- Promote the development and maintenance of secure supply chains for key energy and transportation systems, including advanced batteries and semiconductors.
- Incentivize responsible sourcing of critical minerals, metals, and fuels domestically and from nations that share U.S. interests and values.
- Re-shore and revitalize essential industries through regulatory shifts and other incentives that take advantage of American innovation and technology leadership.
- Leverage America’s values to build a competitive advantage and level the trade playing field by adopting common supply chain standards with other technologically advanced democracies.
We advance these goals by:
- Developing actionable policy recommendations based on research and stakeholder engagement.
- Driving policy changes through advocacy and communications.
- Educating U.S. political and business leaders.
- Forging bipartisan coalitions to advance legislative and executive branch solutions.
Why call it “Commanding Heights”?
The term refers to a nation’s most strategically important industrial sectors – those critical to America’s security, well-being, and ability to function as a modern society.
Centers

The Commanding Heights Initiative is home to the Ambassador Alfred Hoffman, Jr. Center for Critical Minerals Strategy, dedicated to building secure, sustainable and ethical supply chains for electric vehicle batteries in North America.
