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Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act of 1939; Long title: An Act to provide for the common defense by acquiring stocks of strategic and critical materials essential to the needs of industry for the manufacture of supplies for the armed forces and the civilian population in time of a national emergency, and to encourage, as far as possible, the further development of strategic and ...
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is a combat support agency in the United States Department of Defense (DoD).The agency is staffed by more than 26,000 civilian and military personnel throughout the world.
The Eastern Distribution Center (EDC), located in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Harrisburg, is home to the largest distribution facility operated by the United States Department of Defense.
The Defense National Stockpile Center (DNSC) is a branch of the United States' Defense Logistics Agency, whose purpose it is to store, secure, and sell raw materials.The DNSC is based in Fort Belvoir and has operations throughout the United States.
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Military logistics is the discipline of planning and carrying out the movement, supply, and maintenance of military forces. In its most comprehensive sense, it is those aspects or military operations that deal with:
The United States Army divides supplies into ten numerically identifiable classes of supply.The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) uses only the first five, for which NATO allies have agreed to share a common nomenclature with each other based on a NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG).
The Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency is an intelligence officer who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.He or she is the primary intelligence adviser to the Secretary of Defense and also answers to the Director of National Intelligence.