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OEC-04 / Industrial capacity, capital and credit

Coordinate technology scouting and acquisition investment decisions

Support outreach and coordination by DoD scouting and acquisition elements so their investment decisions can counter adversarial capital flows, including use of relevant authorities vested elsewhere in DoD or the Federal Government.

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Authority / instrument · OEC-04

Scouting and investment coordination

Industrial capacity, capital and credit

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Office of Expanded Competition within the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force; headed by the OEC Director

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Coordination does not automatically transfer another component's authority or authorize OEC to sign its awards.

Recorded executor

Office of Expanded Competition Director

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Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingScope documentedInvestment duties established; no standalone OEC budget verified in the reviewed sources. Institutional/program context, not a funding allocation to this specific action.
Assigned rolesRemit sourcedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementRole recordedRecorded executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director. Use the responsible program’s process.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

Possible toolOEC-04 · Investment & capital

Authority holder: Office of Expanded Competition within the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force; headed by the OEC Director

Investment & capital

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Statutory duty recorded; operating procedures, current funding, individual delegation and public intake have not been verified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Connect the support to DoD scouting or acquisition elements and adversarial capital flows described in §9025(c)(1).
  • Confirm the holder and applicable conditions of any other component's authority used.

Limits & exclusions

  • Coordination does not automatically transfer another component's authority or authorize OEC to sign its awards.

Funding conditions

  • §9025 does not specify a dedicated appropriation or available balance. Identify legally available funds and the fiscal conditions of the proposed action.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

Resources

  • Funding account and responsible resource owner not verified

Approval

    Execution

    Partners & review

    • Relevant DoD and Federal components

    Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

    Coordination pathway

    Office of Expanded Competition → relevant DoD or Federal partner → identify the applicable instrument, lawful funds and authorized approving/executing official. No transaction-specific signature authority is verified.

    Actor and execution-role sources

    Legal basis

    What this research establishes

    Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
    RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
    Public fundingScope documentedInvestment duties established; no standalone OEC budget verified in the reviewed sources. Institutional/program context, not a funding allocation to this specific action.
    Assigned rolesRemit sourcedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
    EngagementRole recordedRecorded executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director. Use the responsible program’s process.

    Confidence: High on the cited statutory duty. Family placement is editorial; executor is an organizational routing lead, not a verified individual delegation.

    Currentness: Added October 4, 2026. Enacted §9025 text in P.L. 118-159 §924 retrieved; official OLRC search-index text through September 2026 corroborated it while the direct page was under maintenance. Targeted P.L. 119-60 text search found no §9025 or Office of Expanded Competition reference. This is not exhaustive later-law certification.

    Review scope: Record reviewed 2026-10-04. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.

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