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USC-06 / Intelligence, counterintelligence and security

Exclude risky sources or subcontractors from covered national-security-system procurements

Take defined source-selection or subcontract-consent actions against supply-chain risk in covered national-security systems and covered IT items, and, with additional findings, restrict disclosure of the supporting information.

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Authority / instrument · USC-06

Supply-chain security

Intelligence, counterintelligence and security

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military department

What this does not authorize / hard limit

This is not a government-wide ban on any disfavored supplier; action must fit the statute’s three covered procurement actions.

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 recordedExisting acquisition resources; no separate capital or grant authority. 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

Possible toolUSC-06 · Contracts & purchases
Legal basis10 U.S.C. §3252

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military department

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

  • Limit action to covered procurements, covered systems, and covered IT supply as defined in §3252(d).
  • Consult relevant officials, make a written national-security necessity finding and a finding that less intrusive measures are not reasonably available, and notify the specified congressional committees.
  • Restrict disclosure only after the further comparative national-security-risk finding required by §3252(b)(2)(C).

Limits & exclusions

  • This is not a government-wide ban on any disfavored supplier; action must fit the statute’s three covered procurement actions.
  • The specialized bid-protest limitation applies as stated in §3252(c), not to every supply-chain decision.

Funding conditions

  • Existing acquisition resources; no separate capital or grant authority.

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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 or Secretary of a military department; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed
    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. §3252Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record.

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 recordedExisting acquisition resources; no separate capital or grant authority. 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.

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

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