Maintain, lease, transfer, and release the Defense Industrial Reserve
- Objective
- Expand production
- Family / instrument
- Industrial capacity, capital and credit · Industrial reserve property
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense
- Executor · routing lead
- Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Determine which plants or equipment belong in the Reserve and which are excess.
Apply statutory retention policy, property-management rules, educational public-interest findings, and military-department reimbursement of reserve storage/repair/overhead costs.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
Reliance on private industry is the general policy; Reserve holdings are limited to emergency and specified defense-production needs.
- Disposal remains subject to applicable law except for the specifically stated educational transfer exception.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProgram unverified
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
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.