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IND-12 / Industrial capacity, capital and credit

Fund supply-chain capacity and workforce through grants and agreements

Use contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and other transactions; provide private-sector incentives to create, maintain, protect, expand or restore essential domestic industrial-base capabilities. Express eligible uses include workforce, facilities and production infrastructure.

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At a glance

Mission goalExpand production
Possible toolIND-12 · Grants & cooperative agreements

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense; Fund control assigned by §4817(b) to USD(A&S) through named industrial-base office

Grants & cooperative agreements

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

  • Enumerated §4817(g)(1) defense supply-chain purposes; other purposes require essentiality/timeliness findings and 30-day report
  • No activity in the six covered countries under §4817(m)
  • Applicable approval and award instrument

Limits & exclusions

  • Purpose-limited supply-chain program, not general economic development
  • New authorities sunset Dec.31,2035

Funding conditions

  • Industrial Base Fund appropriations; Pub. L.119-60 §867(b) bars using funds made available BEFORE Dec.18,2025 for newly added §4817(g)–(j) activities. FY27 CR limitations independently apply to its funds.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • USD(A&S) / Industrial Base Policy / Industrial Base Resilience / WIRE
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  • Military Department and COCOM requirement sponsors
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Resources

  • Industrial Base Fund / IBAS program
  • DoD Comptroller and component funding sponsors
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Approval

Execution

  • WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer
    Office profile

Partners & review

  • Industry / eligible intermediaries
  • DoD General Counsel and fiscal counsel
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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: Full enacted Pub. L.119-60 §867 read, corroborated by OLRC §4817 prelim; new (g)–(m) provisions sunset Dec.31,2035; five-year third-party award subauthority is shorter.

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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