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Action brief · USC-18

Co-fund competitive dual-use critical technology projects

Objective
Develop a technology
Family / instrument
Research, innovation and experimentation · Dual-use critical technology assistance
Statute
Authority holder
Secretary of Defense
Executor · routing lead
Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)

Use competitive project selection and statutory national-security, technical, personnel, market, cost-sharing, and nonduplication criteria.
Federal funding normally may not exceed half of total project cost; a particularly meritorious project may exceed that share only on the specified insufficient-non-Federal-resources determination.
All requirements & limits

Recorded funding condition (excerpt)

Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance.
All funding conditions

What this does not authorize / limits

Section 4021 governs the research other-transaction instrument.

Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded

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. Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.

Actor sources

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