Purchase metered consumption-based capabilities with flexible lifecycle funding
- Objective
- Bring a prototype into use
- Family / instrument
- Acquisition, transition and contract finance · Commercial acquisition
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense and military-department Secretaries
- Executor · routing lead
- Warranted contracting officer and program manager
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Metered actual usage and predetermined fixed unit prices; 75%/90% funding-consumption notifications.
Implementing acquisition provisions and appropriate service model.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Amounts authorized for this acquisition authority may cover RDT&E, procurement, production, modification and O&M; incremental contracts/agreements and advances expressly permitted.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Feature/capability additions up to 25% of original contract value receive specified competitive treatment; not unlimited out-of-scope growth.
- Do not read lifecycle-purpose provision as permission to move any existing appropriation without fiscal analysis.
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.