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USC-30 / Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships

Share Army industrial work, facilities, and joint competitive offers

Working-capital-funded Army industrial facilities may collaborate with non-Army entities on military or commercial projects, including shared work, sales, facility/equipment use, and joint offers for federal competitive procurements.

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Authority / instrument · USC-30

Army industrial cooperative arrangements

Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Responsible Army major subordinate command commander as specified in §7544(f)

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Incremental customer payments and payment in kind are allowed but do not eliminate cost-recovery requirements.

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 recordedSales proceeds are credited to the working-capital fund incurring the costs; incremental payments and in-kind payments are expressly permitted. 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-30 · Other statutory tools
Legal basis10 U.S.C. §7544

Authority holder: Responsible Army major subordinate command commander as specified in §7544(f)

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

  • Ensure substantial facility performance, noninterference with DoD work, and a listed capacity/cost/core-skill objective.
  • Apply full-cost recovery, indemnity conditions, export controls, and property-lease law.

Limits & exclusions

  • Commercial sales normally require a finding that adequate domestic commercial sources are unavailable, subject to specified DoD and export-related exceptions.
  • Multiyear contracts are limited to five years absent another law.
  • Incremental customer payments and payment in kind are allowed but do not eliminate cost-recovery requirements.

Funding conditions

  • Sales proceeds are credited to the working-capital fund incurring the costs; incremental payments and in-kind payments are expressly permitted.

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

  • Responsible Army major subordinate command commander as specified in §7544(f); any delegation must be verified
    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. §7544Official 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 recordedSales proceeds are credited to the working-capital fund incurring the costs; incremental payments and in-kind payments are expressly permitted. 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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