Pentagon Insider Joins REalloys as Rare Earth Deadline Approaches
REalloys (NASDAQ: ALOY) has appointed former U.S. Secretary of Defense’s Chief of Staff Joe Kasper as chair of its advisory board, placing a senior defense supply chain official at the center of its push to build a U.S.-aligned rare earth metals platform as the country faces limited domestic supply and a hard 2027 deadline requiring U.S. defense systems to eliminate Chinese-sourced inputs. Kasper has been working inside the Pentagon on the exact supply chain breakdown REalloys is now trying to fix: the absence of U.S. capacity to produce…