Buy experimental products, services, demonstrations and prototypes
- Objective
- Develop a technology
- Family / instrument
- Research, innovation and experimentation · Research & experimentation
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense and military-department Secretaries
- Executor · routing lead
- DARPA Contracts Management Office or Service contracting/grants/agreements office; Performing laboratory or external research performer
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Secretary considers purchase necessary for experimental or test purposes in developing national-defense supplies.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Appropriation matching experiment/prototype purpose; statutory flexibility does not waive appropriations law.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Not unlimited serial-production authority.
- Special procurement treatment applies only within quantities needed for experimentation, prototyping, evaluation, operational assessment/safety or residual operational capability.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.
Actor sources
- DARPA Contracts Management Office — award and administration roles
- P.L. 119-60 §1802 / 10 U.S.C. 1732 — portfolio plans, budgets, execution and reporting chain
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.