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USC-75 / Acquisition, transition and contract finance

Contract for additional commercial space capacity on an as-needed basis

Use Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve contract provisions to secure extra space products or services and consider a contractor’s reserve commitment when allocating business.

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Authority / instrument · USC-75

Commercial space and airlift

Acquisition, transition and contract finance

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of Defense (as expressly defined in §9531(d)(3))

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Not a general authority to lend, purchase equity or indemnify contractors; the provision authorizes procurement-contract reserve commitments.

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 recordedAppropriate available procurement or other mission funding is required; a reserve commitment is not proof of an allocated budget. 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-75 · Contracts & purchases
Legal basis10 U.S.C. §9531

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense (as expressly defined in §9531(d)(3))

Contracts & purchases

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

  • Participating contractors must meet the statutory U.S.-citizenship definition, including the entity-organization requirements.
  • Each contract and participant must comply with applicable industrial-security measures and any additional measures established by the Secretary.

Limits & exclusions

  • Not a general authority to lend, purchase equity or indemnify contractors; the provision authorizes procurement-contract reserve commitments.

Funding conditions

  • Appropriate available procurement or other mission funding is required; a reserve commitment is not proof of an allocated budget.

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 Defense (as expressly defined in §9531(d)(3)); transaction-specific delegation must be verified
    Office profile

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. §9531Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator.

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 recordedAppropriate available procurement or other mission funding is required; a reserve commitment is not proof of an allocated budget. 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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