Provide advance, progress, partial and performance-based contract payments
- Objective
- Bring a prototype into use; Expand production
- Family / instrument
- Acquisition, transition and contract finance · Contract financing
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Head of agency; authorized contracting/finance officials
- Executor · routing lead
- Warranted contracting officer and program manager
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Payment basis, adequate security where required and public-interest determination for general advances.
Progress/performance evidence; aggregate payments cannot exceed unpaid contract price.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Appropriate contract funds; rules differ for ordinary advance payments, commercial payments and performance-based arrangements.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Contract financing is not an unrestricted corporate loan or investment.
- FY26 specifies qualifying commercial subscription/consumption payments are not advances for §3803 purposes; do not infer waiver of all fiscal limits.
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
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.