The Pentagon is realigning $81.4 million to strengthen and secure high-tech supply chains in the U.S. defense industrial base, with much of the funding headed toward directed-energy weapons, electric vehicle batteries, nuclear missile aeroshells, and the recycling of rare earth elements, according to an internal reprogramming notice released today . The funds are being moved internally from a Pentagon defense-wide procurement account intended to bolster the defense industrial base. About $15 million is being transferred to the Army to make...
