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USC-03 / Industrial capacity, capital and credit

Co-fund procurement technical assistance and APEX specialized support for businesses

Use cooperative agreements with eligible public, nonprofit, and qualifying tribal entities to furnish procurement technical assistance, including certain non-defense contracts, compliance education, and assistance to covered small businesses growing beyond size standards. Support APEX centers of excellence beyond their geographic service areas.

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Authority / instrument · USC-03

Procurement technical assistance

Industrial capacity, capital and credit

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of Defense acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment

What this does not authorize / hard limit

This is technical-assistance funding, not a general business loan, procurement award, export license, or security clearance.

Recorded executor

Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative

Continue to actor →

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedChapter 388 assistance funds subject to statutory caps and shares; amended §4955(e) allows acceptance and use of other federal agency funds for execution and administration. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

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

At a glance

Mission goalExpand production
Possible toolUSC-03 · Contracts & purchases
Legal basis10 U.S.C. §4951

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment

Contracts & purchases

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

Availability and verification

Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Use an eligible entity defined by §4951, not an unrestricted grant directly to any company.
  • Apply §4954 cost shares and authorized waivers, §4955 funding ceilings and exceptions, and the special covered-small-business definition in §4959.
  • AUKUS, export-control, SBIR, cybersecurity, and foreign-ownership compliance education are bounded forms of technical assistance, not regulatory waivers.

Limits & exclusions

  • This is technical-assistance funding, not a general business loan, procurement award, export license, or security clearance.
  • National APEX center-of-excellence reach under amended §4958(d) does not eliminate eligibility or fiscal restrictions.

Funding conditions

  • Chapter 388 assistance funds subject to statutory caps and shares; amended §4955(e) allows acceptance and use of other federal agency funds for execution and administration.

Read the funding and execution guide

Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor

Resources

  • Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed
    Office profile
    Office profile

Execution

  • Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative

Partners & review

  • Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable

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

Coordination pathway

Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.

Actor and execution-role sources

October 5 statutory review

Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified.

Section coverage and review findings

Legal basis

  • 10 U.S.C. §4951Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
  • 10 U.S.C. §4954Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
  • 10 U.S.C. §4955Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
  • 10 U.S.C. §4958Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
  • 10 U.S.C. §4959Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.
  • P.L. 119-60, §861Enacted FY2026 NDAA text; not a proposal.

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 fundingRules recordedChapter 388 assistance funds subject to statutory caps and shares; amended §4955(e) allows acceptance and use of other federal agency funds for execution and administration. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Confidence: High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.

Currentness: Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation. OLRC search-index text corroborated §4954 through September 28, 2026 and amended §4958 through July 14, 2026. P.L. 119-60 §861(b)-(d) read directly.

Review scope: Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.

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