Rapidly acquire urgent capabilities and make limited emergency funding/waiver decisions
- Objective
- Bring a prototype into use
- Family / instrument
- Acquisition, transition and contract finance · Rapid acquisition
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense or Deputy Secretary of Defense for reserved determinations; designated senior official for permitted waivers
- Executor · routing lead
- Service/component program and contracting office
- Eligibility & funds
- Match your project to the applicable program. Read the recorded gates and funding conditions.
- What this does not authorize / limits
- Cannot waive criminal/civil-penalty statutes, appropriations-expenditure laws or §3601 itself.
- Baseline annual statutory pools:$200m each for combat, contingency and cyber categories; $50m for immediate rapid-pathway starts; sustainment use limited 2 years.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProgram-specific
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
- P.L. 119-60 §1802 / 10 U.S.C. 1732 — portfolio plans, budgets, execution and reporting chain
- TRMC — test infrastructure coordination and investment programs
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.