
The Commanding Heights Initiative
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.