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USC-74 / Property, construction and housing

Provide reimbursable launch supplies, construction and services through contracts or other transactions

Use contracts or other transactions to furnish launch-related supplies, services, equipment and construction to eligible commercial entities at military installations.

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Authority / instrument · USC-74

Commercial space and airlift

Property, construction and housing

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of the military department concerned

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Not a free grant or unrestricted construction authority; the specified launch-support purpose, agreement and cost rules control.

Recorded executor

Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be 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 recordedReimbursements credit the account that incurred the cost; confirm lawful initial funding and construction authority for the proposed work. 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

Possible toolUSC-74 · Contracts & purchases

Authority holder: Secretary of the military department concerned

Contracts & purchasesOther transactionsFunds & shared services

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

Availability and verification

Express statutory mechanism; current program implementation, open intake, funds and individual delegations were not verified in this statutory review.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • The entity must be U.S.-organized and intend to conduct launch activities at an installation under the Secretary’s jurisdiction; all direct costs must be reimbursed.
  • Indirect-cost reimbursement may be negotiated under the statute; the Air Force must coordinate launch-noise studies and feasible mitigation with the commercial entity at Space Force launch sites (P.L. 119-60 §1602).

Limits & exclusions

  • Not a free grant or unrestricted construction authority; the specified launch-support purpose, agreement and cost rules control.
  • The 2024–2026 transition limitation on indirect-cost recovery (30 percent of direct costs and $5 million annually in FY2024 constant dollars) is a dated branch, not a permanent FY2027 cap; review later-law treatment before charging.

Funding conditions

  • Reimbursements credit the account that incurred the cost; confirm lawful initial funding and construction authority for the proposed work.

Read the funding and execution guide

Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Sponsoring defense component and mission customer; current assignment must be verified

Resources

  • Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller

Approval

  • Secretary of the military department concerned; transaction-specific delegation must be verified

Execution

  • Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified

Partners & review

  • Participating eligible commercial entity; fiscal, security and legal reviewers

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

Coordination pathway

Mission customer → responsible component program office → eligibility, fiscal and security review → authorized contracting or agreement official. This is an illustrative routing chain, not a verified delegation.

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. §2276aOfficial 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator.
  • P.L. 119-60 §1602Adds noise-mitigation coordination and redesignates definitions/transition provisions in 10 U.S.C. §2276a.

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 recordedReimbursements credit the account that incurred the cost; confirm lawful initial funding and construction authority for the proposed work. 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 the express mechanism in the reviewed official text; no claim of verified transaction readiness.

Currentness: Reviewed October 5, 2026: official 2024 Code body and targeted enacted P.L. 119-60 text search. Selected OLRC September 2026 indexed text corroborates §§2274, 2276, 9513 and 9531. Later enactments and annual riders were not exhaustively reconciled.

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

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