Lease commercial vehicles and equipment when practicable and efficient
- Objective
- Bring a prototype into use
- Family / instrument
- Acquisition, transition and contract finance · Commercial equipment leasing
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense
- Executor · routing lead
- Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Make the §3681 practicability-and-efficiency determination and comply with applicable acquisition and fiscal rules.
If using §3133 to cross a fiscal year, the lease period excluding extension options must not exceed one year; that provision separately permits obligation of the total contract amount.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Appropriate lease/acquisition funds; §3133 supplies only its narrowly defined crossing-fiscal-year treatment.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Section 3681 supplies no blanket long-term funding exception, capital-lease authorization, or waiver of competition.
- Special vessel, aircraft, and combat-vehicle lease restrictions in chapter 257 must be checked when applicable.
Implementation caution: Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.
Actor sources
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.