Presidential Waiver of Statutory Requirements Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 33 (Thursday, February 19, 2026)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 8063-8064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-03380]



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Vol. 91

Thursday,

No. 33

February 19, 2026

Part II





The President





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Memorandum of February 13, 2026--Presidential Waiver of Statutory 
Requirements Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 
1950, as Amended



Proclamation 11011--President George Washington's Birthday, 2026


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 91 , No. 33 / Thursday, February 19, 2026 / 
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Title 3--
The President

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                Memorandum of February 13, 2026

                
Presidential Waiver of Statutory Requirements 
                Pursuant to Section 303 of the Defense Production Act 
                of 1950, as Amended

                Memorandum for the Secretary of War

                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)(7)(B) of the Act, that action is necessary to 
                avert shortfalls in critical Department of War supply 
                chains that would severely impair national defense 
                capability. Therefore, I waive the requirements of 
                section 303(a)(2)-(a)(6) of the Act for supply chains 
                critical to reviving the defense industrial base.

                Supply chains encompassed within this memorandum 
                include those associated with supporting the following 
                critical sectors identified in ``Assessing and 
                Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial 
                Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States: 
                Report to President Donald J. Trump by the Interagency 
                Task Force in Fulfillment of Executive Order 13806'' 
                (September 2018): aircraft--fixed wing, rotorcraft, and 
                unmanned aerial systems required for air-to-air and 
                air-to-ground military operations and transport; 
                protection from chemical, biological, radiological, and 
                nuclear threats and attacks; ground systems--tracked 
                and wheeled vehicles for combat, combat support, and 
                combat service support; nuclear warheads and testing 
                platforms; radar and electronic warfare systems; 
                shipbuilding industrial base; soldier systems--products 
                necessary to maximize the Warfighter's survivability, 
                lethality, sustainability, mobility, combat 
                effectiveness, and field quality of life, including 
                weapons, body armor and military apparel, and the 
                materials and components thereof extending to relevant 
                life support auxiliary components; space--satellites, 
                launch services, ground systems satellite components 
                and subsystems, networks, engineering services, 
                payloads, propulsion, terminals (fixed and mobile), and 
                electronics; electronics for defense systems, including 
                microelectronics; machine tools and industrial controls 
                to support production and prototyping operations for 
                defense capabilities; organic industrial base; and 
                workforce training pipelines in support of industrial 
                resources or technology items critical to national 
                defense.

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                Ensuring a robust, resilient, and sustainable domestic 
                industrial base is essential to our national security 
                and the preservation of domestic critical 
                infrastructure.

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

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    Washington, February 13, 2026

[FR Doc. 2026-03380
Filed 2-18-26; 11:15 am]
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