Lease or convey facilities without consideration to support DoD FFRDC contracts
- Objective
- Improve facilities and energy
- Family / instrument
- Property, construction and housing · FFRDC land and facilities
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of a military department
- Executor · routing lead
- Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
The FFRDC must be sponsored by and contracted with DoD, and the property arrangement must further the contract’s purposes.
Apply reversion/transfer or demolition terms and appropriate force protection for commercial construction standards.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
Constraint: Lease ends at 50 years or contract termination/nonrenewal, whichever is earlier.
- Lease ends at 50 years or contract termination/nonrenewal, whichever is earlier.
- Statutory exemptions from specified property and competition laws are confined to this covered-FFRDC pathway.
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.