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The Committee examines Project Failsafe and DPA tools for real‑time supply chain risk mitigation, efforts to diversify solid rocket motor and energetics production, support for veteran and spouse pathways into trades, and broader West Coast shipbuilding opportunities before the Chairman formally adjourns the hearing.
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Discussion turns to using IBAS, DPA, and other tools to rebuild domestic capacity in rare earths and other priority minerals, the funding profile and protection of Build Freedom within IBAS, program transition models such as ATDM welding, and theater‑focused workforce approaches exemplified by Hawaii and PACOM needs.
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Members probe how certification and test range limitations slow industrial ramp‑up, how CRAMEN and IBAS aim to strengthen lower‑tier suppliers via APEX and LinksConnect, and where specific trade and regional shortages are most acute, including shipbuilding, aerospace, mining, and high‑cost areas like California.
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The second panel is convened with Assistant Secretary Kadinacy, who outlines the Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network, critical minerals vulnerabilities, China’s industrial challenge, and introduces Build Freedom as an integrated national workforce and awareness initiative aligned with dozens of IBAS projects.
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Members question witnesses on the high capital and operating costs of labs, wage dynamics and training investments, recruiting faculty, overcoming experience gaps and social stigma against trades, preparing for AI‑driven future skills, and expanding constrained high‑demand programs tied to defense needs.
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HII and Penn College present detailed perspectives on post‑COVID shipbuilding expansion, major wage and infrastructure investments, distributed production, and an applied technology education model designed to address a million‑plus worker shortfall in critical trades and adult reskilling needs.
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The Chairman and Ranking Member formally open the Santa Clarita field hearing, frame the skilled trades and defense industrial base workforce crisis, pose strategic questions on IBAS and Build Freedom, and enter Mike Rowe’s testimony highlighting millions of unfilled trade jobs as a national security risk.
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