Protect classified contractor information and mitigate foreign ownership risks
- Objective
- Protect technology and industry
- Family / instrument
- Intelligence, counterintelligence and security · Industrial security and counterintelligence
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense; USD(A&S)/DCSA responsibilities in §4819; USD(I&S) security oversight under §137.
- Executor · routing lead
- DCSA Industrial Security and CI/Insider Threat directorates; Service CI: ACIC, NCIS, AFOSI; DCMA/DCAA and program contracting offices as relevant
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Classified-contractor scope under §428; separate §847 covered-contractor threshold generally exceeds$5m.
Commercial-product/service exemptions to specified §847 requirements unless senior official applies them for national-security risk.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Available security/acquisition resources; legislation requires sufficient resources but does not itself appropriate them.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
DCSA is not a general regulator of every U.S. company or substitute for CFIUS.
- FOCI finding is not identical to a criminal offense.
- Statutory mandate does not prove implementing rule or capacity fully operational; see audit.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScale documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
EngagementRoutes published
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.
Actor sources
- OUSD(I&S) organization: PREM, SASP, CL&S, Warfighter Support
- DCSA directorates and industrial/counterintelligence missions
- Army Counterintelligence Command mission and organization
- NCIS field offices, including Economic Crimes and Cyber Operations
- Air Force OSI: support to the Air Force and Space Force
- DCSA Section847 implementation information
- GAO-26-107861, industrial security mission gaps and August 2026 corrective-action status
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.