Offset market manipulation and sustain strategic-material supplies
- Objective
- Expand production
- Family / instrument
- Industrial capacity, capital and credit · Market-shaping incentives
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense
- Executor · routing lead
- WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
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)All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
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.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
No covered-country source subsidies under §4817(i)(3)
- Above-market/loss commitments require inability to secure better terms or overseas-supply necessity findings
- Not a general tariff, sanction or price-control authority
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. Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.
Actor sources
- Industrial Base Policy: Warfighting Investments, Resourcing, and Execution (WIRE)
- Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program
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.