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IND-27 / Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships

Commercialize underused Army ammunition facilities through ARMS

Make eligible GOCO ammunition facilities available using facility-use contracts, property management, leases and in-kind consideration, maintaining mobilization capacity while lowering ownership cost.

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At a glance

Possible toolIND-27 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: Secretary of the Army

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

  • Eligible Government-owned contractor-operated ammunition facility
  • Commercial use consistent with Army needs and ARMS purposes
  • Evaluate efficiency, cost and mobilization

Limits & exclusions

  • Normal contract terms up to 25 years
  • Historical extra 25-year option authority applied only to contracts entered by its specified deadline; do not treat as open-ended new-award authority

Funding conditions

  • ARMS appropriations for program support; consideration can include improvements, overhead/product-cost reductions or demilitarization services.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Army ammunition industrial-base program
    Office profile
  • Joint Munitions Command ARMS team

Resources

  • Army ARMS program / ammunition industrial-base resource sponsor
    Office profile

Approval

Execution

  • Army ARMS program, JMC, participating GOCO facility operators
    Office profile

Partners & review

  • Commercial tenants / property managers
  • SBA or USDA administrator only under a credit administration agreement

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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