Stacy Newstead
Strategic Advisor, Critical Metals & Supply Chain
Stacy Newstead brings technical, market and regulatory knowledge to GavCom’s work, with deep understanding of the dynamics shaping critical-material supply chains across defense and commercial markets. She has held supplier, buyer and stakeholder roles across existing and emerging critical-mineral supply chains, with a career spanning national security, defense-industrial-base resilience, critical minerals and materials engineering.
Her background includes government and industry roles at the Department of Defense, prime defense manufacturers, and in support of the Defense Logistics Agency’s National Defense Stockpile. In the commercial sector she served as appointed CEO of the U.S. subsidiary of an Australian graphite-mining company, leading market-entry efforts for an early-stage U.S. anode-processing plant. She currently serves as Materials Strategy and Risk Manager at Lockheed Martin and as Vice Chair of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Manufacturing Division.
She holds a BS in Materials Science from the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering and an MBA from the University of Baltimore’s Merrick School of Business.
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