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IND-26 / Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships

Sell government industrial products or services to non-DoD customers

Designated working-capital industrial facilities may sell articles/services not available from U.S. commercial sources; Army cannon/ammunition facilities use their distinct §7543 route.

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At a glance

Mission goalExpand production
Possible toolIND-26 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense; Army Secretary for §7543; Service Secretaries under §2208(j)

Other statutory tools

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

  • Commercial nonavailability or valid national-security waiver where applicable
  • No interference with military mission
  • Substantial in-house performance; indemnity conditions

Limits & exclusions

  • Not unrestricted competition with private industry
  • Export controls continue
  • Different statutory pathways have different eligibility tests

Funding conditions

  • Required statutory cost recovery and credit to cost-bearing funds; advance incremental payments permitted under §2563.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

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

Resources

  • Service working-capital fund and customer appropriations

Approval

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

Execution

  • Authorized depot/arsenal commander and contracting/finance offices

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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