Accept commercial contributions and provide space-launch infrastructure support
- Objective
- Expand production
- Family / instrument
- Industrial capacity, capital and credit · Commercial space and airlift
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense
- Executor · routing lead
- Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Added commercial requirements must be fully nonfederally funded before agreement execution; the required best-interest, noninterference and competition findings apply.
Contribution agreements must address ownership, use and disposition and prohibit recovering the contribution through another U.S. agreement.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Cash contributions go to the Defense Cooperation Space Launch Account; obligation requires advance appropriations. Appropriated account money is available until expended.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Not general corporate investment authority: contributions and expenditures are limited to the statutory infrastructure objectives.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProgram unverified
Implementation caution: Statutory coverage only: no current implementing program, application window, available balance or individual delegation verified.
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory mechanism; current program implementation, open intake, funds and individual delegations were not verified in this statutory review.
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.