[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 43 (Monday, March 6, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 13657-13658]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-04617]


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                Presidential Determination No. 2023-05 of March 1, 2023

                
Presidential Determination Pursuant to Section 
                303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended, 
                on Airbreathing Engines, Advanced Avionics Position 
                Navigation and Guidance Systems, and Constituent 
                Materials for Hypersonic Systems

                Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense

                Ensuring a robust, resilient, and competitive domestic 
                defense industrial base that has the capability, 
                capacity, and workforce to meet the hypersonic 
                warfighting mission is essential to our national 
                security. Therefore, by the authority vested in me as 
                President by the Constitution and the laws of the 
                United States of America, including section 303 of the 
                Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (the 
                ``Act'') (50 U.S.C. 4533), I hereby determine, pursuant 
                to section 303(a)(5) of the Act, that:

                    (1) airbreathing engines, advanced avionics 
                position navigation and guidance systems, and 
                constituent materials for hypersonic systems are 
                essential to the national defense;
                    (2) without Presidential action under section 303 
                of the Act, United States industry cannot reasonably be 
                expected to provide the additional investment required 
                to provide airbreathing engines and constituent 
                materials for hypersonic systems adequately and in a 
                timely manner; and
                    (3) purchases, purchase commitments, or other 
                action pursuant to section 303 of the Act are the most 
                cost-effective, expedient, and practical alternative 
                method for meeting the need for this critical 
                industrial production capability.

                Pursuant to section 303(a)(7)(B) of the Act, I find 
                that action to expand the domestic production 
                capability for these supply chains is necessary to 
                avert an industrial resource or critical technology 
                item shortfall that would severely impair national 
                defense capability. Therefore, I waive the requirements 
                of section 303(a)(1)-(a)(6) of the Act for the purpose 
                of expanding the domestic production capability for 
                airbreathing engines, advanced avionics position 
                navigation and guidance systems, and constituent 
                materials for hypersonic systems.

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                You are authorized and directed to publish this 
                determination in the Federal Register.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, March 1, 2023

[FR Doc. 2023-04617
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