EconDefense
IND-01 / Industrial capacity, capital and credit

Prioritize defense contracts and allocate scarce industrial resources

Require capable suppliers to accept and prioritize national-defense orders and allocate materials, services, and facilities. This is economic mobilization authority, not a general nationalization power.

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At a glance

Mission goalExpand production
Possible toolIND-01 · Contracts & purchases

Authority holder: President; execution through applicable resource-agency delegations

Contracts & purchases

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • National-defense purpose; applicable priority/allocation rules
  • Additional findings before controlling general civilian-market distribution

Limits & exclusions

  • Does not cover employment contracts
  • Civilian distribution and energy allocations have statutory findings
  • Most DPA authorities expire December 11, 2026 under §4564 as amended by Pub. L. 119-103; §4558 is excepted.

Funding conditions

  • An allocation direction does not supply procurement funds; underlying orders require lawful funding.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • USD(A&S) / Industrial Base Policy / WIRE
    Office profile
  • Military Department capability and supply-chain sponsors

Resources

Approval

  • President / authorized statutory delegate; nondelegable findings retained where applicable

Execution

  • DoD program and warranted contracting officials applying authorized ratings; resource-agency allocation officials
    Office profile

Partners & review

  • Commerce/BIS for industrial-resource priority system
  • Energy, Transportation, Agriculture, HHS, DHS as jurisdiction requires

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

Confidence: High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.

Currentness: DPA operative 2024 text read and compared with OLRC September 2026 entries; Pub. L. 119-103, div. B §2004 extends §4564 to Dec. 11, 2026. Pub. L. 119-60 §862 removes statutory barriers to changing the Air Force Executive Agent, not itself a replacement designation.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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