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IND-24 / Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships

Operate reimbursable supply and industrial businesses with working-capital funds

Finance inventories and common industrial/commercial services; recover costs from customer appropriations and support capital assets under specified rules.

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At a glance

Mission goalExpand production
Possible toolIND-24 · Funds & shared services

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense; Treasury establishes accounts; Service Secretaries allocate functions

Funds & shared services

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

  • Designated inventory or industrial/common-service activity
  • Customer has funds for purpose
  • Cost recovery, separate accounts and capital subaccounts

Limits & exclusions

  • Not authority to conduct arbitrary commercial businesses or make private loans
  • Outside-DoD work requires independent authority
  • Minor-construction depot flexibility in §2208(u) extended through Sep.30,2027

Funding conditions

  • Capitalization/appropriation plus reimbursable customer orders; §2208(k) is specific capital-asset timing authority, not unlimited deficit finance.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Service materiel/sustainment command
  • Depot/arsenal Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence

Resources

Approval

  • Secretary concerned / Secretary of Defense as statute specifies
    Office profile

Execution

  • Service industrial and supply activities
  • DLA supply chains
  • Defense Agency common-service providers
    Office profile

Partners & review

  • Private industrial partner
  • Service legal counsel

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: 2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.

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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