; (3) given the current supply chain for strategic and critical materials the United States, and specifically the Department of Defense, is at considerable risk for a supply interruption; (4) if it is to divest itself from a dependence on foreign-produced strategic and critical materials, the United States must be willing to accept some risk in the form of aiding domestic investment opportunities; (5) the United States must support the domestic production of strategic and critical materials by creating a fund which uses a small percentage, 1 percent, of the internal programmatic administration costs of major aircraft and missile weapons systems to promote investment in domestic production of strategic and critical materials; (6) the fund should only leverage those funds used by the Department of Defense for internal programmatic administration costs and should not decrease quantities to be procured by the Department of Defense; (7) the fund should be managed by the Defense Logistics Agency Strategic Materials; (8) the purpose of the fund should be to provide 5-year, interest-free loans to domestic producers of strategic and critical materials in an attempt to reduce American dependence on foreign sources of these materials and the loans should be paid back to the fund at the termination of the loan period