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USC-29 / Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships

Use specialized shipbuilding economic-order and incremental funding authorities

Use the National Sea-Based Deterrence Fund for authorized ballistic-missile submarine acquisition and specialized economic-order-quantity, advance-construction, incremental-funding, and critical-component multiyear contracts.

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Authority / instrument · USC-29

Sea-based deterrence contracting

Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of Defense administers the Fund; Secretary of the Navy exercises the contract authorities

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Not a general-purpose shipbuilding fund or generic authority to buy all naval systems incrementally.

Recorded executor

Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

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 recordedAppropriations deposited in the National Sea-Based Deterrence Fund; ordinarily five-year obligation availability following the appropriation fiscal year. 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-29 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense administers the Fund; Secretary of the Navy exercises the contract authorities

Other statutory tools

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

Availability and verification

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

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Use authorized purposes and the eligible vessel/component definitions.
  • Include appropriations-contingent payment terms and statutory termination-liability limits.

Limits & exclusions

  • Not a general-purpose shipbuilding fund or generic authority to buy all naval systems incrementally.
  • Termination liability under the special contract authorities is limited to the funding obligated at termination.

Funding conditions

  • Appropriations deposited in the National Sea-Based Deterrence Fund; ordinarily five-year obligation availability following the appropriation fiscal year.

Read the funding and execution guide

Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed

Resources

  • Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense administers the Fund; Secretary of the Navy exercises the contract authorities; any delegation must be verified
    Office profile
    Office profile

Execution

  • Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Partners & review

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

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.

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. §2218aOfficial 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits.

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 recordedAppropriations deposited in the National Sea-Based Deterrence Fund; ordinarily five-year obligation availability following the appropriation fiscal year. 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 cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.

Currentness: Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.

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

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