; and (2) to identify, establish, and implement policies and procedures to recover such materials from such equipment for the purposes of reuse by the Department of Defense. 1512. Improvements to Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (a) Purposes Section 2 of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act ( 50 U.S.C. 98a ) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: (d) To the maximum extent practicable and to reduce the reliance of the National Defense Stockpile program on appropriated funds, the National Defense Stockpile Manager shall seek to achieve positive cash flows from the recovery of strategic and critical materials pursuant to section 6(a)(5). . (b) Stockpile management Section 6 of such Act ( 50 U.S.C. 98e ) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(5), by striking from excess and all that follows and inserting from other Federal agencies, either directly as materials or embedded in excess-to-need, end-of-life items, or waste streams; ; (2) in subsection (c)(1), by striking subsection (a)(5) or (a)(6) and inserting subsection (a)(6) or (a)(7) ; (3) in subsection (d)(2), by striking subsection (a)(5) and inserting subsection (a)(6) ; and (4) by adding at the end the following new subsections: (g) (1) The National Defense Stockpile Manager shall establish a pilot program to use, to the maximum extent practicable, commercial best practices in the acquisition and disposal of strategic and critical materials for the stockpile. (2) (A) The Stockpile Manager shall brief the congressional defense committees (as defined in section 101(a) of title 10, United States Code)— (i) as soon as practicable after the establishment of the pilot program under paragraph (1); and (ii) annually thereafter until the termination of the pilot program under paragraph (3). (B) The briefing required by subparagraph (A)(i) shall address— (i) the commercial best practices selected for use under the pilot program; (ii) how the Stockpile Manager determined which commercial best practices to select