{ "reviewed_on": "2026-10-04", "scope": "Instrument-by-instrument public implementation research. Legal authority, operational implementation, historical use, related processes and contextual evidence remain distinct. Coverage is not a readiness certification or an exhaustive search of all public or nonpublic activity.", "dossiers": [ { "record_id": "ACQ-01", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "ONR supplies a concrete competitive Navy/Marine Corps S&T route, not an exclusive implementation of the broad defense-research power.", "routes": [ { "program": "ONR long-range S&T BAA", "administering_office": "Office of Naval Research; ONR Global; Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory", "audience": "Research performers in industry and academia", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Worldwide responsible research sources; FFRDCs and government laboratories cannot receive direct awards under this BAA.", "source": { "title": "ONR N0001425SB001 Amendment 0008", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-09/N0001425SB001_Amendment-0008.pdf", "locator": "B.6–7; C.1; D.4–6; Appendix II paragraph (8) (printed p.69, PDF p.72)", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4c86b9a9e898" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Match a published research area; ONR white papers and questions use its submission portal. 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This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "ONR FY25 Long Range BAA and amendments", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/work-with-us/funding-opportunities/fy25-long-range-broad-agency-announcement-baa-navy-and-marine", "locator": "N0001425SB001; current deadline and amendments", "evidence_type": "official solicitation notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-10-01", "source_id": "src-71f6c6c2fe48", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "Read current canonical ONR notice and downloaded all75 pages of Amendment0008; checked eligibility, submission and follow-on provisions. A stale ONR test-mirror deadline was excluded." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-02", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "FY 2027 MURI provides a currently published university research grant/cooperative-agreement route with an explicit statutory link.", "routes": [ { "program": "FY 2027 Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative", "administering_office": "ONR, Army Research Office and Air Force Office of Scientific Research", "audience": "U.S. degree-granting science/engineering universities", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Industry, government labs, FFRDCs and foreign entities may collaborate but cannot receive MURI funds, including by subaward.", "source": { "title": "FY2027 MURI NOFO N0001426SF002 / W911NF26S1000 / NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260002", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-09/FY27%20MURI%20NOFO_N0001426SF002.pdf", "locator": "A.6–7; B.2; C.1; D.1; E (PDF pp.8–18,26–29)", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-137af7d06b95" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Optional four-page white paper to the topic office; full Grants.gov application with technical narrative, budget, disclosures and institutional registrations.", "source": { "title": "FY2027 MURI NOFO N0001426SF002 / W911NF26S1000 / NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260002", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-09/FY27%20MURI%20NOFO_N0001426SF002.pdf", "locator": "A.6–7; B.2; C.1; D.1; E (PDF pp.8–18,26–29)", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-137af7d06b95" } } ], "status": { "label": "FY 2027 notice published", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Optional white papers are due November 20, 2026; full proposals are due April 9, 2027. Both deadlines are at 5 p.m. Eastern.", "source": { "title": "ONR FY2027 MURI notice", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/work-with-us/funding-opportunities/fiscal-year-fy-2027-department-war-multidisciplinary-research", "locator": "Published September 21, 2026; white-paper and application deadlines", "evidence_type": "official solicitation notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-21", "source_id": "src-1cbb01d1b56c" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Grants/cooperative agreements; no profit. Selection and continuation depend on available funds and evaluation.", "kind": "research assistance", "period": "FY2027 competition", "source": { "title": "FY2027 MURI NOFO N0001426SF002 / W911NF26S1000 / NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260002", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-09/FY27%20MURI%20NOFO_N0001426SF002.pdf", "locator": "A.6–7; B.2; C.1; D.1; E (PDF pp.8–18,26–29)", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-137af7d06b95" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "UARC eligibility requires being part of an eligible U.S. university and not an FFRDC; collaboration does not expand recipient eligibility.", "source": { "title": "FY2027 MURI NOFO N0001426SF002 / W911NF26S1000 / NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260002", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-09/FY27%20MURI%20NOFO_N0001426SF002.pdf", "locator": "A.6–7; B.2; C.1; D.1; E (PDF pp.8–18,26–29)", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-137af7d06b95" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read FY2027 MURI and its topics", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/work-with-us/funding-opportunities/fiscal-year-fy-2027-department-war-multidisciplinary-research", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Published process; verify the controlling notice before submission." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "C.1 explicitly cites 10 U.S.C. 4001 and 31 U.S.C. chapter 63 for grants/cooperative agreements.", "source": { "title": "FY2027 MURI NOFO N0001426SF002 / W911NF26S1000 / NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260002", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-09/FY27%20MURI%20NOFO_N0001426SF002.pdf", "locator": "A.6–7; B.2; C.1; D.1; E (PDF pp.8–18,26–29)", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-137af7d06b95" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No FY2027 awards exist in the reviewed notice; topic-specific budgets and eventual obligations must be checked separately." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "FY2027 MURI NOFO N0001426SF002 / W911NF26S1000 / NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260002", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-09/FY27%20MURI%20NOFO_N0001426SF002.pdf", "locator": "A.6–7; B.2; C.1; D.1; E (PDF pp.8–18,26–29)", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-137af7d06b95", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "ONR FY2027 MURI notice", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/work-with-us/funding-opportunities/fiscal-year-fy-2027-department-war-multidisciplinary-research", "locator": "Published September 21, 2026; white-paper and application deadlines", "evidence_type": "official solicitation notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-21", "source_id": "src-1cbb01d1b56c", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "Read the current82-page primary NOFO, especially eligibility, authority, proposal process and dates; cross-checked Grants.gov opportunity363906. Did not confuse historical FY2026 calls with current intake." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-03", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "DARPA publishes a concrete research-OT proposal route; this is one implementing agency, not the exclusive holder of § 4021 authority.", "routes": [ { "program": "DARPA research OTs through program BAAs and Research Announcements", "administering_office": "DARPA technical program office and Contracts Management Office; warranted Agreements Officer", "audience": "Research performers whose proposed basic, applied or advanced research fits a DARPA announcement", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The selected announcement must contemplate a research OT; selection and award instrument remain agency decisions.", "source": { "title": "DARPA General Terms and Conditions for Proposers", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/contracts-management/proposer-general-terms", "locator": "SAM registration; submission instructions; proposal evaluation; updated 25 January 2024", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fc1bfb103f4a" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Read the program announcement, obtain active SAM/UEI registration, and submit unclassified OT proposals through DARPA BAAT when instructed.", "source": { "title": "DARPA General Terms and Conditions for Proposers", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/contracts-management/proposer-general-terms", "locator": "SAM registration; submission instructions; proposal evaluation; updated 25 January 2024", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fc1bfb103f4a" } }, { "text": "Prepare milestones with completion criteria, dates and payment/resource-share schedules; identify restricted IP and supply required research-security disclosures.", "source": { "title": "DARPA Other Transactions proposer instructions", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/contracts-management/proposer-transactions", "locator": "Other Transactions; milestone schedule, IP assertions and research-security requirements; updated 25 September 2025", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-954af4fb90d3" } } ], "status": { "label": "Standing process documented", "as_of": "2025-09-25", "text": "DARPA OT proposer instructions are published. No particular currently accepting § 4021 BAA was independently confirmed in this pass.", "source": { "title": "DARPA Other Transactions proposer instructions", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/contracts-management/proposer-transactions", "locator": "Other Transactions; milestone schedule, IP assertions and research-security requirements; updated 25 September 2025", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-954af4fb90d3" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Research OTs normally use RDT&E appropriations; the OT instrument does not itself enlarge the available funds. Program-specific amount and fiscal year require the announcement and agreement.", "kind": "RDT&E agreement funding", "period": "Guide revised September 2023; award vintage varies", "source": { "title": "DoD Guide to Research Other Transactions, revised 13 September 2023", "url": "https://acquisitioninnovation.darpa.mil/docs/Guides/Guide%20to%20Research%20Other%20Transactions%2009132023.pdf", "locator": "Sections 1.B–C and 2.D.3; PDF pp. 5–7, 11", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-285445a576ab" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "A research OT is for research advancement, not the § 4022 prototype/production route; fiscal-law constraints still apply.", "source": { "title": "DoD Guide to Research Other Transactions, revised 13 September 2023", "url": "https://acquisitioninnovation.darpa.mil/docs/Guides/Guide%20to%20Research%20Other%20Transactions%2009132023.pdf", "locator": "Sections 1.B–C and 2.D.3; PDF pp. 5–7, 11", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-285445a576ab" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DARPA proposer submission instructions", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/contracts-management/proposer-general-terms", "type": "submission guidance", "scope": "Find the applicable program BAA first; BAAT is not an unsolicited general funding application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The DoD guide explicitly distinguishes § 4021 research OTs from § 4022 prototype OTs and follow-on production.", "source": { "title": "DoD Guide to Research Other Transactions, revised 13 September 2023", "url": "https://acquisitioninnovation.darpa.mil/docs/Guides/Guide%20to%20Research%20Other%20Transactions%2009132023.pdf", "locator": "Sections 1.B–C and 2.D.3; PDF pp. 5–7, 11", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-285445a576ab" } }, "relationship_type": "direct implementation" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current program-specific call, budget, cost-share determination and award terms not verified; the published general process is not evidence of an open competition." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DoD Guide to Research Other Transactions, revised 13 September 2023", "url": "https://acquisitioninnovation.darpa.mil/docs/Guides/Guide%20to%20Research%20Other%20Transactions%2009132023.pdf", "locator": "Sections 1.B–C and 2.D.3; PDF pp. 5–7, 11", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-285445a576ab" }, { "title": "DARPA Other Transactions proposer instructions", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/contracts-management/proposer-transactions", "locator": "Other Transactions; milestone schedule, IP assertions and research-security requirements; updated 25 September 2025", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-954af4fb90d3" }, { "title": "DARPA General Terms and Conditions for Proposers", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/contracts-management/proposer-general-terms", "locator": "SAM registration; submission instructions; proposal evaluation; updated 25 January 2024", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fc1bfb103f4a" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-04", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "DIU’s named CSO process supplies an illustrative section 4022 prototype route. Its use of the CSO label is distinct from procurement under section 3458.", "routes": [ { "program": "DIU Commercial Solutions Opening prototype pathway", "administering_office": "Defense Innovation Unit project team and Agreements Officer, with a sponsoring government organization", "audience": "Commercial technology providers responding to a stated mission problem", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Respond to a published problem; agreement eligibility is assessed under § 4022, separately from permission to submit a brief.", "source": { "title": "DIU Commercial Solutions Opening HQ0845-20-S-C001, Amendment 0001", "url": "https://s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/publicdocs.diu.mil/DIU_CSO_Amend_0001_HQ0845-20-S-C001.pdf", "locator": "Sections 1.2, 1.4, 2 and 3; PDF pp. 2–5", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-64da90207e7c" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The competitive sequence is solution brief, invited pitch, then invited proposal. Invitations do not promise award funding.", "source": { "title": "DIU Commercial Solutions Opening HQ0845-20-S-C001, Amendment 0001", "url": "https://s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/publicdocs.diu.mil/DIU_CSO_Amend_0001_HQ0845-20-S-C001.pdf", "locator": "Sections 1.2, 1.4, 2 and 3; PDF pp. 2–5", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-64da90207e7c" } }, { "text": "Address problem fit, existing technology, commercial traction, company details and proposed adaptation. DIU recommends five written pages or fifteen slides, rather than making that recommendation a universal statutory limit.", "source": { "title": "DIU Solution Brief Guidance", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/solution-brief-guidance", "locator": "Formatting and content requirements; white-paper and slide-deck guidance", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-7ad68d01a9c1" } } ], "status": { "label": "No CSO opening displayed at check", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "DIU’s current page displayed zero CSO openings; separately listed challenge and Bridge opportunities are not automatically this pathway.", "source": { "title": "DIU Open Pathways", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/open-solicitations", "locator": "Pathways through Commercial Solutions Openings (CSO): 0 openings, observed 4 October 2026", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-30f4e87b5bf0" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Payments are tied to negotiated prototype milestones; customer/project funding and agreement amount must be established for the selected effort.", "kind": "Prototype OT milestone payments", "period": "Project-specific; no remaining balance verified", "source": { "title": "DIU Work With Us", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us", "locator": "FAQ: eligible respondents, OT agreements, IP, milestone payments, follow-on production", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a523a2f687a9" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "This DIU CSO solicits prototype OTs and expressly distinguishes itself from the DFARS commercial-solutions-opening deviation.", "source": { "title": "DIU Commercial Solutions Opening HQ0845-20-S-C001, Amendment 0001", "url": "https://s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/publicdocs.diu.mil/DIU_CSO_Amend_0001_HQ0845-20-S-C001.pdf", "locator": "Sections 1.2, 1.4, 2 and 3; PDF pp. 2–5", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-64da90207e7c" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DIU current opportunities", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/open-solicitations", "type": "opportunity index", "scope": "Apply only to an applicable posted opportunity and its instructions." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The CSO invokes § 4022 prototype-OT authority; DIU is an example administering route, not an exclusive DoD executor.", "source": { "title": "DIU Commercial Solutions Opening HQ0845-20-S-C001, Amendment 0001", "url": "https://s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/publicdocs.diu.mil/DIU_CSO_Amend_0001_HQ0845-20-S-C001.pdf", "locator": "Sections 1.2, 1.4, 2 and 3; PDF pp. 2–5", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-64da90207e7c" } }, "relationship_type": "direct implementation" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No open DIU CSO was displayed on the checked date; project-specific eligibility, security restrictions, appropriation and pricing remain unresolved until a solicitation is selected." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DIU Commercial Solutions Opening HQ0845-20-S-C001, Amendment 0001", "url": "https://s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/publicdocs.diu.mil/DIU_CSO_Amend_0001_HQ0845-20-S-C001.pdf", "locator": "Sections 1.2, 1.4, 2 and 3; PDF pp. 2–5", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-64da90207e7c" }, { "title": "DIU Solution Brief Guidance", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/solution-brief-guidance", "locator": "Formatting and content requirements; white-paper and slide-deck guidance", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-7ad68d01a9c1" }, { "title": "DIU Open Pathways", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/open-solicitations", "locator": "Pathways through Commercial Solutions Openings (CSO): 0 openings, observed 4 October 2026", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-30f4e87b5bf0" }, { "title": "DIU Work With Us", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us", "locator": "FAQ: eligible respondents, OT agreements, IP, milestone payments, follow-on production", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a523a2f687a9" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-05", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "DIU publishes an operational Success Memo route for buyers considering follow-on production from successful competitively selected prototypes.", "routes": [ { "program": "DIU successful-prototype transition and Success Memo", "administering_office": "DIU project team/Agreements Officer and the purchasing agency’s contracting or agreements office", "audience": "Government buyers and the successful prototype participants; not a fresh open call for unrelated vendors", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The statutory no-recompetition route depends on competitive selection of prototype participants and successful completion; the buyer must establish those predicates.", "source": { "title": "DIU Success Memo Walkthrough, Winter 2025", "url": "https://s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/publicdocs.diu.mil/DIU_Success_Memo_Walkthrough_Feb25.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp. 3–7: statutory conditions, successful completion, production awards", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ee5c6c456d24" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Obtain the Success Memo and underlying scope from DIU; the project manager and Agreements Officer document completion. 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The guide specifies five pages, solicitation ID, UEI/CAGE, objectives, deliverables and time-phased cost; the individual solicitation controls deviations.", "source": { "title": "AFRL CHEERS Industry Guide, version 2.0, 20 November 2025", "url": "https://files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunities/76e69002-8eff-4020-877e-6185de52139e/attachments/945107f5-181b-40c9-9a25-0224641824cb/Attachment_1_CHEERS_Industry_Guide_Amend_01_20Nov2025.pdf", "locator": "Chapters 1–4 and 8; PDF pp. 3–6, 15–17, 32", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-73c54c141499" } }, { "text": "Submit only the required white paper to the organizational address stated in the current solicitation, AFRL.711HPW.MAA@us.af.mil; submit a full proposal only following an invitation and its instructions.", "source": { "title": "CHEERS Open Period2 ARA, Amendment01", "url": "https://files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunities/a8d0bab5-9426-4045-bcb5-46c2748fc511/attachments/cbac63eb-ef67-4f9f-bd32-0fd74b6f5c2f/Open_Period_Solicitation_2_ARA_Amend_01_20Nov2025.pdf", "locator": "PDFpp.3,5–7: authority, white-paper deadline, ceiling, scope, funding, cost share and two-step submission", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-11-20", "source_id": "src-4f355ea6df3e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published white-paper window; funding contingent", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Amendment 01 states that white papers are accepted through September 30, 2027; full proposals are invited separately. 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Exact4023 authority, deadline, white-paper route,$499.87m aggregate ceiling, no-cost-share and contingent-funding language verified. The unrelated BAA-track moratorium was not presumed to close Open Period2." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-07", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "The current ONR BAA expressly permits the section 4004 bridge; this is stronger evidence than a generic prototype-program link.", "routes": [ { "program": "ONR BAA contract line-item/option bridge", "administering_office": "ONR contracting officer and the sponsoring research program", "audience": "Performers with a qualifying competed BAA contract", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Technology or item must arise from the qualifying BAA contract.", "source": { "title": "ONR N0001425SB001 Amendment 0008", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-09/N0001425SB001_Amendment-0008.pdf", "locator": "B.6–7; C.1; D.4–6; Appendix II paragraph (8) (printed p.69, PDF p.72)", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4c86b9a9e898" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Contracting officer scopes a bridge line item/option with minimum bridge quantity, schedule and funding; competitive follow-on planning remains necessary.", "source": { "title": "DFARS234.005-1 Competition", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/234.005-1-competition.", "locator": "Paragraphs1–4; DFARS page effective May 7, 2026", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b6c90e2180e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Mechanism documented in current notice", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Amendment 0008 includes the explicit bridge clause; no particular exercised option was verified.", "source": { "title": "ONR N0001425SB001 Amendment 0008", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-09/N0001425SB001_Amendment-0008.pdf", "locator": "B.6–7; C.1; D.4–6; Appendix II paragraph (8) (printed p.69, PDF p.72)", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4c86b9a9e898" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "DFARS permits funds beyond the BAAs original science/technology funding categories, subject to lawful availability.", "kind": "contract line item or option", "period": "contract-specific", "source": { "title": "DFARS234.005-1 Competition", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/234.005-1-competition.", "locator": "Paragraphs1–4; DFARS page effective May 7, 2026", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b6c90e2180e" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Two-year maximum and$100 million in FY2017 constant dollars; only minimal units needed to bridge to competitive follow-on.", "source": { "title": "DFARS234.005-1 Competition", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/234.005-1-competition.", "locator": "Paragraphs1–4; DFARS page effective May 7, 2026", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b6c90e2180e" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read ONR BAA AppendixII(8)", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/work-with-us/funding-opportunities/fy25-long-range-broad-agency-announcement-baa-navy-and-marine", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Existing-contract planning through its contracting officer; not a freestanding company application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Appendix II(8) expressly identifies 10 U.S.C. 4004 and permits the initial contract or a later modification to include a line item for development, demonstration or initial production.", "source": { "title": "ONR N0001425SB001 Amendment 0008", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-09/N0001425SB001_Amendment-0008.pdf", "locator": "B.6–7; C.1; D.4–6; Appendix II paragraph (8) (printed p.69, PDF p.72)", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4c86b9a9e898" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No specific exercised bridge option or obligation was independently verified; distinguish4022 prototype-OT follow-ons." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "ONR N0001425SB001 Amendment 0008", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-09/N0001425SB001_Amendment-0008.pdf", "locator": "B.6–7; C.1; D.4–6; Appendix II paragraph (8) (printed p.69, PDF p.72)", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4c86b9a9e898", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "DFARS234.005-1 Competition", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/234.005-1-competition.", "locator": "Paragraphs1–4; DFARS page effective May 7, 2026", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b6c90e2180e" } ], "research_scope": "Searched4004 and predecessor2302e; located the express clause in current ONR solicitation and corroborating DFARS. Excluded materials using obsolete/mistaken4004-to2373 numbering." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-08", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "DIU currently publishes a section 4025 prize challenge with a separate, conditional follow-on route.", "routes": [ { "program": "DIU LC-ISR prize challenge", "administering_office": "Defense Innovation Unit and named government challenge partners", "audience": "U.S. and international participants subject to screening and challenge terms", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Participants must meet challenge screening and demonstration requirements; selected prototype-agreement performers need active SAM/CAGE.", "source": { "title": "DIU Low-Cost ISR challenge PROJ00711", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00711", "locator": "Submission instructions; schedule; prizes;5.Authority", "evidence_type": "official challenge notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-b2c174e973bb" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Submit no more than15slides in PDF, distinguishing demonstrated from planned capability and documenting production/business approach; later stages use evaluation events.", "source": { "title": "DIU Low-Cost ISR challenge PROJ00711", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00711", "locator": "Submission instructions; schedule; prizes;5.Authority", "evidence_type": "official challenge notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-b2c174e973bb" } } ], "status": { "label": "Submission deadline ahead", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Notice posted September 29, 2026; submission closes October 14, 2026. Later demonstration dates are planned, not completed events.", "source": { "title": "DIU Low-Cost ISR challenge PROJ00711", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00711", "locator": "Submission instructions; schedule; prizes;5.Authority", "evidence_type": "official challenge notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-b2c174e973bb" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "$100 million is a combined prize and initial-follow-on pool, not an unconditional cash-prize pot.", "kind": "prizes and potential follow-on awards", "period": "FY2027-stage schedule", "source": { "title": "DIU Low-Cost ISR challenge PROJ00711", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00711", "locator": "Submission instructions; schedule; prizes;5.Authority", "evidence_type": "official challenge notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-b2c174e973bb" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Successful participation does not guarantee procurement or waive the independent legal conditions of a follow-on.", "source": { "title": "DIU Low-Cost ISR challenge PROJ00711", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00711", "locator": "Submission instructions; schedule; prizes;5.Authority", "evidence_type": "official challenge notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-b2c174e973bb" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read DIU challenge terms", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00711", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Current challenge-specific intake; not a universal prize-program portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The notice expressly cites section 4025 for prizes and distinguishes possible follow-on awards under sections 4022, 4023 or other authorities.", "source": { "title": "DIU Low-Cost ISR challenge PROJ00711", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00711", "locator": "Submission instructions; schedule; prizes;5.Authority", "evidence_type": "official challenge notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-b2c174e973bb" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Actual selections, prize payments and future award amounts were not verified; check amendments before submission." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DIU Low-Cost ISR challenge PROJ00711", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/submit-solution/PROJ00711", "locator": "Submission instructions; schedule; prizes;5.Authority", "evidence_type": "official challenge notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-b2c174e973bb" } ], "research_scope": "Read DIU challenge authority, funding, submission and dated schedule; also examined DARPA4025 competition terms as corroborating examples, without treating past event schedules as proof of awards." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-09", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "The official program is now branded RISE. Legacy RIF solicitations and current statutory ceilings do not establish an open call.", "routes": [ { "program": "Rapid Integrated Scalable Enterprise (formerly RIF)", "administering_office": "USD(A&S) Office of Industrial Base Growth", "audience": "Small businesses with technology ready for defense-program insertion", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Program focuses on innovative small-business technology addressing specific defense needs.", "source": { "title": "Office of Industrial Base Growth: RIF-RISE", "url": "https://business.defense.gov/Programs/RIF-RISE/", "locator": "Program overview; Resources; RISE presentation updated January 2025", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a738e8282a63" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Use the current RISE page to locate program resources and any new solicitation; do not submit against the historicalFY2019 BAA.", "source": { "title": "Office of Industrial Base Growth: RIF-RISE", "url": "https://business.defense.gov/Programs/RIF-RISE/", "locator": "Program overview; Resources; RISE presentation updated January 2025", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a738e8282a63" } } ], "status": { "label": "Program documented; new intake not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Current overview links January 2025 guidance and historical solicitations/award lists; an open FY 2026/27 solicitation was not verified.", "source": { "title": "Office of Industrial Base Growth: RIF-RISE", "url": "https://business.defense.gov/Programs/RIF-RISE/", "locator": "Program overview; Resources; RISE presentation updated January 2025", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a738e8282a63" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "$10.020 million is theFY2025 request for project775, not a verified appropriation or available balance.", "kind": "President budget request", "period": "FY2025", "source": { "title": "OSD FY2025 RDT&E justification", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2025/budget_justification/pdfs/03_RDT_and_E/RDTE_OSD_PB_2025.pdf", "locator": "PE0604775D8Z, project775, Defense Rapid Innovation Program / RISE", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-03", "source_id": "src-5e2160cd77a0" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "TheFY2019 BAA used a$3 million/two-year structure; that historical limit must not replace the current record statutory ceiling.", "source": { "title": "FY2019 Rapid Innovation Fund BAA", "url": "https://business.defense.gov/Portals/57/Images/Programs/RISE/Broad%20Agency%20Announcement.pdf?ver=OmVuvgwu-yuwB7Hd_jG9rQ%3D%3D", "locator": "HQ0034-19-BAA-RIF-0001; historical eligibility and transition process", "evidence_type": "historical official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-70c37f73fef9" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "RISE program resources", "url": "https://business.defense.gov/Programs/RIF-RISE/", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Public program information; no current application window independently verified." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Official program continuity is explicit: RIF is now RISE and has been administered by this office since FY 2023. This documents the program route, not a current award under section 4061.", "source": { "title": "Office of Industrial Base Growth: RIF-RISE", "url": "https://business.defense.gov/Programs/RIF-RISE/", "locator": "Program overview; Resources; RISE presentation updated January 2025", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a738e8282a63" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current implementation plan, solicitation, obligated funds and new awards remain unverified. Official page/PDF direct access returned403; indexed official text and budget exhibit were available." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "Office of Industrial Base Growth: RIF-RISE", "url": "https://business.defense.gov/Programs/RIF-RISE/", "locator": "Program overview; Resources; RISE presentation updated January 2025", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a738e8282a63" }, { "title": "OSD FY2025 RDT&E justification", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2025/budget_justification/pdfs/03_RDT_and_E/RDTE_OSD_PB_2025.pdf", "locator": "PE0604775D8Z, project775, Defense Rapid Innovation Program / RISE", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-03", "source_id": "src-5e2160cd77a0" }, { "title": "FY2019 Rapid Innovation Fund BAA", "url": "https://business.defense.gov/Portals/57/Images/Programs/RISE/Broad%20Agency%20Announcement.pdf?ver=OmVuvgwu-yuwB7Hd_jG9rQ%3D%3D", "locator": "HQ0034-19-BAA-RIF-0001; 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government partner liaison and prototype funding", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fc8bb79d76ab" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DIU — government organizations", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/dod-entities", "type": "government inquiry", "scope": "Discuss a mission challenge and project sponsorship; this is not an application for unrestricted capital." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "This is DIU institutional implementation context. The page describes prototype partnering, not a delegation or transaction-specific determination under each § 4127 subsection.", "source": { "title": "DIU Work With Us — DoD Entities", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/dod-entities", "locator": "Our Process, steps 1–4; government partner liaison and prototype funding", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fc8bb79d76ab" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "A specific executed § 4127(d)–(f) multi-stakeholder/resource-pooling agreement, contribution terms and funding ledger were not located in this bounded pass." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DIU Work With Us — DoD Entities", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/dod-entities", "locator": "Our Process, steps 1–4; government partner liaison and prototype funding", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fc8bb79d76ab" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-11", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Turn a shared laboratory R&D objective into a defined project and negotiated contributions—not a request for federal cash.", "routes": [ { "program": "Laboratory CRADA — NRL and DAF examples", "administering_office": "Participating laboratory technology-transfer office; DAF T3 provides ORTA services where no local ORTA exists", "audience": "Non-federal R&D collaborators; this is not a grant application", "eligibility": [ { "text": "At NRL, propose a defined joint project aligned with the laboratory mission; a broad subject area alone is insufficient.", "source": { "title": "NRL CRADA process", "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Doing-Business/Technology-Transfer/Cooperative-Research-and-Development-Agreement-CRADA/", "locator": "CRADA definition and partner contributions", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-40936d5ca700" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Prepare the joint tasks and each party’s contributions with the laboratory TTO. 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Commercial rights to resulting inventions require the applicable licensing terms.", "source": { "title": "NRL CRADA process", "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Doing-Business/Technology-Transfer/Cooperative-Research-and-Development-Agreement-CRADA/", "locator": "CRADA definition and partner contributions", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-40936d5ca700" } } ], "status": { "label": "Process documented; project agreement required", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The published process was checked; no award or appointment availability is inferred.", "source": { "title": "DAF CRADA process and February 2026 model", "url": "https://www.aft3.af.mil/Technology-Transfer/Cooperative-Research-and-Development-Agreement-CRADA/", "locator": "Overview; collaborators; model agreement", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b375bb95b97c" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Read the official process", "url": "https://www.aft3.af.mil/Technology-Transfer/Cooperative-Research-and-Development-Agreement-CRADA/", "type": "program information", "scope": "Information and institutional inquiry, not an award application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DAF expressly identifies 15 USC 3710a. 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Its linked guide is dated March 2020, so newer law and current solicitation terms also govern.", "source": { "title": "Department of the Navy Office of Small Business Programs — SBIR/STTR", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/smallbusiness/Pages/sbir-sttr.aspx", "locator": "Phase III: SYSCOM SBIR office, contracting-officer responsibilities and non-SBIR funding; associated guide is March 2020", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-145df001f37e" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Phase III is financed by non-SBIR/STTR sources, including the purchasing customer; it is not a third draw on the SBIR/STTR set-aside.", "kind": "Customer procurement/R&D or other non-SBIR funds", "period": "Award-specific", "source": { "title": "SBA SBIR/STTR Policy Directive, May 2023 file", "url": "https://www.sbir.gov/sites/default/files/SBA%20SBIR_STTR_POLICY_DIRECTIVE_May2023.pdf", "locator": "Sections 4(c) and 6(a); PDF pp. 27–35; later statutory amendments must also be applied", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-bb46b8b6dffa" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The SYSCOM SBIR office is not the approval authority for a Phase III contract; lineage alone does not produce funding or a purchase commitment.", "source": { "title": "Department of the Navy Office of Small Business Programs — SBIR/STTR", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/smallbusiness/Pages/sbir-sttr.aspx", "locator": "Phase III: SYSCOM SBIR office, contracting-officer responsibilities and non-SBIR funding; associated guide is March 2020", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-145df001f37e" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Navy SBIR/STTR Phase III guidance", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/smallbusiness/Pages/sbir-sttr.aspx", "type": "transition guidance", "scope": "Use the relevant SYSCOM SBIR office and funded government customer; not a universal application portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "SBA policy describes Phase III’s lineage and funding rules; Navy guidance illustrates execution without creating a Navy-exclusive statutory route.", "source": { "title": "SBA SBIR/STTR Policy Directive, May 2023 file", "url": "https://www.sbir.gov/sites/default/files/SBA%20SBIR_STTR_POLICY_DIRECTIVE_May2023.pdf", "locator": "Sections 4(c) and 6(a); PDF pp. 27–35; later statutory amendments must also be applied", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-bb46b8b6dffa" } }, "relationship_type": "direct implementation" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No proposed Phase III award, lineage file or customer funding was reviewed. The Navy page’s older data-rights language was deliberately not adopted as a current rule." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "SBA SBIR/STTR Policy Directive, May 2023 file", "url": "https://www.sbir.gov/sites/default/files/SBA%20SBIR_STTR_POLICY_DIRECTIVE_May2023.pdf", "locator": "Sections 4(c) and 6(a); PDF pp. 27–35; later statutory amendments must also be applied", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-bb46b8b6dffa" }, { "title": "Department of the Navy Office of Small Business Programs — SBIR/STTR", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/smallbusiness/Pages/sbir-sttr.aspx", "locator": "Phase III: SYSCOM SBIR office, contracting-officer responsibilities and non-SBIR funding; associated guide is March 2020", "result": "Official indexed primary page reviewed; direct retrieval returned Request Rejected", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-145df001f37e" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-19", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "A newly published AFWERX SBT FAQ now ties the strategic-breakthrough mechanism directly to the 2026 law; it is not merely renamed STRATFI.", "routes": [ { "program": "DAF Strategic Breakthrough (PY26.3.2)", "administering_office": "AFWERX/DAF SBIR-STTR program and sponsoring government acquisition organization", "audience": "Eligible small businesses with a successfully completed Phase II and a government sponsor", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Completed PhaseII; directly related follow-on; mission alignment;1:1match, at least20%of that match from new non-SBIR/STTR DoD funds.", "source": { "title": "AFWERX PY26.3.2 Strategic Breakthrough FAQ", "url": "https://afwerx.com/wp-content/uploads/00b-Final-PA-Approved-PY26.3.2-SBT-FAQs.pdf", "locator": "Questions 1–16, pp. 1–4", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-535eb6d51791" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Prepare PhaseII completion, market research, match commitments, transition plan and PAE-or-higher written acquisition/planning commitment.", "source": { "title": "AFWERX PY26.3.2 Strategic Breakthrough FAQ", "url": "https://afwerx.com/wp-content/uploads/00b-Final-PA-Approved-PY26.3.2-SBT-FAQs.pdf", "locator": "Questions 1–16, pp. 1–4", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-535eb6d51791" } }, { "text": "Government POC submits the completed capability package after reviewing current templates and guidance.", "source": { "title": "AFWERX Sequential Opportunities", "url": "https://afwerx.com/programs/sbir-sttr/sequential-opportunities/", "locator": "Eligibility; Submission Process; SBT FAQ", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-594c9c57cc43" } } ], "status": { "label": "Program-specific guidance published", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The PY26.3.2 FAQ is available; a submission deadline or executed SBT award was not independently verified.", "source": { "title": "AFWERX PY26.3.2 Strategic Breakthrough FAQ", "url": "https://afwerx.com/wp-content/uploads/00b-Final-PA-Approved-PY26.3.2-SBT-FAQs.pdf", "locator": "Questions 1–16, pp. 1–4", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-535eb6d51791" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Up to$30 million through one or sequentialPhaseII awards over no more than48 months; matching funds are additional.", "kind": "sequential SBIR/STTR PhaseII", "period": "PY26.3.2 guidance", "source": { "title": "AFWERX PY26.3.2 Strategic Breakthrough FAQ", "url": "https://afwerx.com/wp-content/uploads/00b-Final-PA-Approved-PY26.3.2-SBT-FAQs.pdf", "locator": "Questions 1–16, pp. 1–4", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-535eb6d51791" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Not initialPhaseII; FAQ requires completedPhaseII, despite broader shared-page language allowing activePhaseII for other sequential routes.", "source": { "title": "AFWERX PY26.3.2 Strategic Breakthrough FAQ", "url": "https://afwerx.com/wp-content/uploads/00b-Final-PA-Approved-PY26.3.2-SBT-FAQs.pdf", "locator": "Questions 1–16, pp. 1–4", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-535eb6d51791" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "AFWERX SBT requirements and government submission process", "url": "https://afwerx.com/programs/sbir-sttr/sequential-opportunities/", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Government-sponsored submission; confirm the applicable SBT notice and deadline, not a direct company upload assumption." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "FAQ 1 expressly names section 3 of the Small Business Innovation and Economic Security Act and 15 U.S.C. 638.", "source": { "title": "AFWERX PY26.3.2 Strategic Breakthrough FAQ", "url": "https://afwerx.com/wp-content/uploads/00b-Final-PA-Approved-PY26.3.2-SBT-FAQs.pdf", "locator": "Questions 1–16, pp. 1–4", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-535eb6d51791" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Public page/FAQ eligibility wording differs; SBT-specific FAQ is stricter. Award history, funded allocation and live deadline remain unverified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "AFWERX PY26.3.2 Strategic Breakthrough FAQ", "url": "https://afwerx.com/wp-content/uploads/00b-Final-PA-Approved-PY26.3.2-SBT-FAQs.pdf", "locator": "Questions 1–16, pp. 1–4", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-535eb6d51791" }, { "title": "AFWERX Sequential Opportunities", "url": "https://afwerx.com/programs/sbir-sttr/sequential-opportunities/", "locator": "Eligibility; Submission Process; SBT FAQ", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-594c9c57cc43" } ], "research_scope": "Rechecked latest AFWERX page and linked SBT-specificFAQ, superseding April 2026 webinar guidance-pending statements. Retained distinctions from STRATFI/TACFI; did not reclassify their historical awards as SBT." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-20", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Army TABA provides a concrete assistance process under section 638(q), including newly listed cybersecurity and workforce support for 2026.", "routes": [ { "program": "Army SBIR/STTR Technical and Business Assistance", "administering_office": "Army SBIR/STTR program office; approved assistance providers", "audience": "Eligible Army SBIR/STTR applicants and awardees", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Assistance must support the SBIR/STTR project; requested funding is reviewed and subject to program resources.", "source": { "title": "Army SBIR Technical and Business Assistance", "url": "https://armysbir.army.mil/faq-resources/taba/", "locator": "Eligibility; company-selected support; Army-preferred support; new2026 services", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2478040cee8e" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Company-selected vendor/internal-staff requests go in DSIP Volume3 cost and Volume5 supporting documentation. Awardees without approved support may use the Army-preferred provider route.", "source": { "title": "Army SBIR Technical and Business Assistance", "url": "https://armysbir.army.mil/faq-resources/taba/", "locator": "Eligibility; company-selected support; Army-preferred support; new2026 services", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2478040cee8e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published 2026 service expansion", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Current page labels CMMC/cybersecurity and staffing/hiring/training as 2026 additions; individual service access remains award-dependent.", "source": { "title": "Army SBIR Technical and Business Assistance", "url": "https://armysbir.army.mil/faq-resources/taba/", "locator": "Eligibility; company-selected support; Army-preferred support; new2026 services", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2478040cee8e" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Army page lists$6,500 perPhaseI project and$50,000 acrossPhaseII projects perfirm; preferred-provider assistance is paid to the provider.", "kind": "technical/business assistance", "period": "current Army published program limits", "source": { "title": "Army SBIR Technical and Business Assistance", "url": "https://armysbir.army.mil/faq-resources/taba/", "locator": "Eligibility; company-selected support; Army-preferred support; new2026 services", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2478040cee8e" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Not a standalone consulting grant or unrestricted reimbursement; local program limits must not be generalized to all agencies.", "source": { "title": "Army SBIR Technical and Business Assistance", "url": "https://armysbir.army.mil/faq-resources/taba/", "locator": "Eligibility; company-selected support; Army-preferred support; new2026 services", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2478040cee8e" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Army TABA request instructions", "url": "https://armysbir.army.mil/faq-resources/taba/", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Published process; verify the controlling notice before submission." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The Army guidance explicitly cites 15 U.S.C. 638(q)(1).", "source": { "title": "Army SBIR Technical and Business Assistance", "url": "https://armysbir.army.mil/faq-resources/taba/", "locator": "Eligibility; company-selected support; Army-preferred support; new2026 services", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2478040cee8e" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Provider capacity and individual request approvals were not verified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "Army SBIR Technical and Business Assistance", "url": "https://armysbir.army.mil/faq-resources/taba/", "locator": "Eligibility; company-selected support; Army-preferred support; new2026 services", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2478040cee8e" } ], "research_scope": "Read the current Army program page and its named2026 service additions, proposal volumes, limits and preferred-provider process; separated provider identity from government administering office." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-21", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "A current DEPSCoR research-collaboration notice identifies the actual offices, mentor pairing, geographic eligibility and grant scale.", "routes": [ { "program": "FY 26 DEPSCoR Research Collaboration", "administering_office": "OUSD(R&E) Basic Research Office; AFOSR awards; ONR administration", "audience": "Eligible-state university faculty paired with experienced defense-research mentors", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Applicant is a tenured/tenure-track faculty member in a listed eligible jurisdiction with no prior DoD prime-research PI award; mentor has qualifying active DoD prime-PI experience during October 2018–September 2026.", "source": { "title": "FY26 DEPSCoR Research Collaboration notice", "url": "https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/b1489614-88c5-4534-a1ef-ffafdd1ba9d0", "locator": "NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260004; description, eligibility, amendments and award information", "evidence_type": "official funding opportunity", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-08-10", "source_id": "src-d33cc3ff5689" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Read eligibility table and latest amendments; prepare the paired research proposal and security/disclosure documents; full proposals follow the invitation process.", "source": { "title": "FY26 DEPSCoR Research Collaboration notice", "url": "https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/b1489614-88c5-4534-a1ef-ffafdd1ba9d0", "locator": "NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260004; description, eligibility, amendments and award information", "evidence_type": "official funding opportunity", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-08-10", "source_id": "src-d33cc3ff5689" } } ], "status": { "label": "White-paper deadline ahead", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "White papers due October 12, 2026; invited full proposals April 5, 2027.", "source": { "title": "Army research teaming: current academic opportunities", "url": "https://hbcumiresearch.army.mil/research-teaming-opportunities/academia-faculty-and-staff/", "locator": "2026 DEPSCoR Research Collaboration; 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No matching requirement.", "kind": "research grants", "period": "FY2026 funds /2027 award cycle", "source": { "title": "FY26 DEPSCoR Research Collaboration notice", "url": "https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/b1489614-88c5-4534-a1ef-ffafdd1ba9d0", "locator": "NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260004; description, eligibility, amendments and award information", "evidence_type": "official funding opportunity", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-08-10", "source_id": "src-d33cc3ff5689" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "A listed state alone is insufficient: PI/mentor and institutional conditions also apply.", "source": { "title": "FY26 DEPSCoR Research Collaboration notice", "url": "https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/b1489614-88c5-4534-a1ef-ffafdd1ba9d0", "locator": "NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260004; description, eligibility, amendments and award information", "evidence_type": "official funding opportunity", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-08-10", "source_id": "src-d33cc3ff5689" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read DEPSCoR notice and amendments", "url": "https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/b1489614-88c5-4534-a1ef-ffafdd1ba9d0", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Published process; verify the controlling notice before submission." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "This is the named DEPSCoR program implementing the geographically targeted research-capacity instrument, not a general state business subsidy.", "source": { "title": "FY26 DEPSCoR Research Collaboration notice", "url": "https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/b1489614-88c5-4534-a1ef-ffafdd1ba9d0", "locator": "NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260004; description, eligibility, amendments and award information", "evidence_type": "official funding opportunity", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-08-10", "source_id": "src-d33cc3ff5689" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Individual awards and uncommitted balances not independently verified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "FY26 DEPSCoR Research Collaboration notice", "url": "https://simpler.grants.gov/opportunity/b1489614-88c5-4534-a1ef-ffafdd1ba9d0", "locator": "NOFOAFRLAFOSR20260004; description, eligibility, amendments and award information", "evidence_type": "official funding opportunity", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-08-10", "source_id": "src-d33cc3ff5689" }, { "title": "Army research teaming: current academic opportunities", "url": "https://hbcumiresearch.army.mil/research-teaming-opportunities/academia-faculty-and-staff/", "locator": "2026 DEPSCoR Research Collaboration; white-paper and invited-proposal dates", "evidence_type": "official program opportunity listing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-7a140863b410" } ], "research_scope": "Read official Grants.gov mirror and current Army opportunity listing; checked updated September 16 amendments, geographic and prior-award eligibility, sponsor/awarder/administrator separation and dates." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-22", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "The Navy FY 2027 competition has a mandatory white-paper gate already closed; December full proposals are invitation-only.", "routes": [ { "program": "FY 2027 Navy HBCU/MI research capacity", "administering_office": "Office of Naval Research HBCU/MI Program", "audience": "Eligible U.S. minority-serving higher-education institutions", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Institutional eligibility and naval research relevance are required; pure nonresearch STEM outreach is outside this call.", "source": { "title": "FY2027 Navy HBCU/MI NOFO Amendment0001", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-07/N0001426SF001-Amendment%200001.pdf", "locator": "A.6–7; 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verify the controlling notice before submission." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "This is a Service HBCU/MI research program. It must not be presented as proof that the separate OSD FY 2026 split-opportunity requirement has been implemented.", "source": { "title": "FY2027 Navy HBCU/MI NOFO Amendment0001", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-07/N0001426SF001-Amendment%200001.pdf", "locator": "A.6–7; eligibility; research-capacity scope", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fadd5d0c2cc8" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "OSD-specific implementation ofFY2026§ 223 separate calls and eventual Navy awards were not verified in this bounded pass." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "FY2027 Navy HBCU/MI NOFO Amendment0001", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/assets/2026-07/N0001426SF001-Amendment%200001.pdf", "locator": "A.6–7; eligibility; research-capacity scope", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fadd5d0c2cc8", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "ONR FY2027 HBCU/MI competition", "url": "https://www.onr.navy.mil/work-with-us/funding-opportunities/fiscal-year-fy-2027-department-navy-don-historically-black", "locator": "N0001426SF001; objectives and dates", "evidence_type": "official solicitation notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-06-18", "source_id": "src-eb7f2b134a63", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "Read current Navy page and44-page amendedNOFO; inspected actual schedule and budget rather than inferring an open call from the top-level deadline. Distinguished Service program from OSD statutory program requirements." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-23", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "DFARS documents a laboratory student-service contracting process expressly tied to section 4143; it is not the same as a scholarship or federal internship appointment.", "routes": [ { "program": "Student technical-support contracts at defense R&D laboratories", "administering_office": "Laboratory requiring office and authorized contracting office", "audience": "Enrolled students at eligible U.S. institutions, often employed through a nonprofit", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Student must remain in good standing in a degree curriculum; technical work is scientific/engineering support, not clerical administration.", "source": { "title": "DFARS237.73 student laboratory services", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/node/35997/printable/print", "locator": "237.7300–7303", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-72c4ec9cfba8" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Normally contract with a nonprofit employing the student; direct contracting is allowed when in the government interest. Include the specified payment/termination clauses.", "source": { "title": "DFARS237.73 student laboratory services", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/node/35997/printable/print", "locator": "237.7300–7303", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-72c4ec9cfba8" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published process; specific vacancy unverified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Public DFARS instructions were located; no current laboratory vacancy or award expressly attributed to section 4143 was independently established.", "source": { "title": "DFARS237.73 student laboratory services", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/node/35997/printable/print", "locator": "237.7300–7303", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-72c4ec9cfba8" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Payment is for contracted laboratory technical services, not a scholarship entitlement.", "kind": "service contract payments", "period": "laboratory contract-specific", "source": { "title": "DFARS237.73 student laboratory services", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/node/35997/printable/print", "locator": "237.7300–7303", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-72c4ec9cfba8" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Direct student agreements are nonpersonal-service contracts despite named payment clauses. Current DoD deviations and local implementation must be checked.", "source": { "title": "DFARS237.73 student laboratory services", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/node/35997/printable/print", "locator": "237.7300–7303", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-72c4ec9cfba8" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read student-service contract procedures", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/node/35997/printable/print", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Laboratory contracting guidance, not a universal student application form." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DFARS 237.7300 and 237.7302 expressly cite section 4143; the rule distinguishes nonprofit-employer contracts from direct student contracts.", "source": { "title": "DFARS237.73 student laboratory services", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/node/35997/printable/print", "locator": "237.7300–7303", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-72c4ec9cfba8" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current DoD Part37 deviation applicability and a laboratory-specific intake require confirmation." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DFARS237.73 student laboratory services", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/node/35997/printable/print", "locator": "237.7300–7303", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-72c4ec9cfba8" } ], "research_scope": "Searched4143 and predecessor laboratory-student terminology; read the complete relevantDFARS subpart. Did not label SMART, Pathways or unrelated internships as uses of4143." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-24", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "SMART has a public 2026 application route for fall 2027 study, with binding civilian-service and clearance conditions.", "routes": [ { "program": "SMART Scholarship-for-Service", "administering_office": "OUSD(R&E) SMART Program Office and participating sponsoring facilities", "audience": "Eligible STEM students, including incoming freshmen, undergraduates and graduate students", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Current2026 page requires an approvedSTEM degree,3.0GPA, eligible citizenship, accredited U.S. institution, clearance eligibility and requested1–5 years funding startingAugust2027.", "source": { "title": "SMART2026 eligibility and requirements", "url": "https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart/en?id=smart_eligibility", "locator": "Scholarship Eligibility for2026; one-for-one service commitment", "evidence_type": "official program operator guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-07479e3fcf66" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Review sponsoring-facility fit, apply through the program portal, complete selection/placement and sign the binding service agreement; internships apply to longer awards.", "source": { "title": "SMART2026 eligibility and requirements", "url": "https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart/en?id=smart_eligibility", "locator": "Scholarship Eligibility for2026; one-for-one service commitment", "evidence_type": "official program operator guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-07479e3fcf66" } } ], "status": { "label": "2026 application route active", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The official portal displays an application option. Its annual window runs from August 1 through the first Friday in December.", "source": { "title": "SMART Scholarship-for-Service home", "url": "https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart", "locator": "Application period; benefits; application link", "evidence_type": "official program operator guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-92b3890f8e6e" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Full tuition and annual stipend currently listed at$30,000–$46,000 by degree level; benefits require program compliance.", "kind": "scholarship and stipend in exchange for service", "period": "2026 application /Fall2027 study", "source": { "title": "SMART Scholarship-for-Service home", "url": "https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart", "locator": "Application period; benefits; application link", "evidence_type": "official program operator guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-92b3890f8e6e" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "One year of civilian employment per funded year; noncompletion can trigger debt under the instruction. Foreign-allied eligibility is subject to statutory caps and placement.", "source": { "title": "SMART2026 eligibility and requirements", "url": "https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart/en?id=smart_eligibility", "locator": "Scholarship Eligibility for2026; one-for-one service commitment", "evidence_type": "official program operator guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-07479e3fcf66" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "SMART application and eligibility", "url": "https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Student scholarship-for-service application; not company R&D funding." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DoDI 1025.09 expressly implements section 4093 and allocates program, sponsor and debt-review responsibilities.", "source": { "title": "DoDI1025.09 SMART Defense Education Program", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/102509p.PDF?ver=z5TZxppVhVNpM-tgTrn4NA%3D%3D", "locator": "Purpose; responsibilities; service agreement and debt procedures", "evidence_type": "official implementing instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2022-11-09", "source_id": "src-08db45a86a28" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Individual selection, clearance and sponsor billet/funding are not assured; final annual deadline/time must be checked in the live application." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "SMART2026 eligibility and requirements", "url": "https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart/en?id=smart_eligibility", "locator": "Scholarship Eligibility for2026; one-for-one service commitment", "evidence_type": "official program operator guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-07479e3fcf66" }, { "title": "SMART Scholarship-for-Service home", "url": "https://www.smartscholarship.org/smart", "locator": "Application period; benefits; application link", "evidence_type": "official program operator guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-92b3890f8e6e" }, { "title": "DoDI1025.09 SMART Defense Education Program", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/102509p.PDF?ver=z5TZxppVhVNpM-tgTrn4NA%3D%3D", "locator": "Purpose; responsibilities; service agreement and debt procedures", "evidence_type": "official implementing instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2022-11-09", "source_id": "src-08db45a86a28" } ], "research_scope": "Used Chromium to inspect the JavaScript-rendered2026 eligibility and live application portal after text fetch returned onlyLoading. Read implementing instruction and current benefits; did not substitute unrelated SMART-branded scholarships." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-25", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "NSWC Corona documents practical STRL recruiting, while the 2026 enterprise review warns that department hiring controls constrain use of section 4091.", "routes": [ { "program": "NSWC Corona STRL direct hiring", "administering_office": "NSWC Corona laboratory hiring managers and human-resources office", "audience": "Qualified scientist/engineer degree holders and eligible veterans", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Scientific/engineering qualifications and the specific degree/veteran category must fit the position; other student/recent-graduate authorities are separately listed.", "source": { "title": "NSWC Corona career opportunities", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Corona/Career-Opportunities/EEO/", "locator": "STRL degree/veteran direct-hire and student/recent-graduate routes", "evidence_type": "official laboratory recruiting guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-99e620932c9c" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Use the laboratory career and official vacancy routes; submit vacancy-specific qualification evidence rather than assuming all laboratory jobs share one authority.", "source": { "title": "NSWC Corona career opportunities", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Corona/Career-Opportunities/EEO/", "locator": "STRL degree/veteran direct-hire and student/recent-graduate routes", "evidence_type": "official laboratory recruiting guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-99e620932c9c" } } ], "status": { "label": "Recruiting process documented; constraints reported", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The June 2026 review says strategic hiring committees and executive interviews impede full use of section 4091.", "source": { "title": "Defense Research Enterprise Review", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Defense-Research-Enterprise-Review.pdf", "locator": "Workforce Finding 6, PDF p. 25", "evidence_type": "official commissioned enterprise review", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-06", "source_id": "src-c25e33eaea7e" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Funded personnel positions remain necessary; authority does not create billets or negate department hiring controls.", "kind": "laboratory personnel funding", "period": "current vacancy-specific", "source": { "title": "Defense Research Enterprise Review", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Defense-Research-Enterprise-Review.pdf", "locator": "Workforce Finding 6, PDF p. 25", "evidence_type": "official commissioned enterprise review", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-06", "source_id": "src-c25e33eaea7e" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "DHA does not eliminate qualifications, suitability/security or funded-position requirements.", "source": { "title": "NSWC Corona career opportunities", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Corona/Career-Opportunities/EEO/", "locator": "STRL degree/veteran direct-hire and student/recent-graduate routes", "evidence_type": "official laboratory recruiting guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-99e620932c9c" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "NSWC Corona recruiting routes", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Corona/Career-Opportunities/EEO/", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "One laboratory example, not an exclusive or unrestricted DoD hiring pipeline." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The laboratory explicitly publishes STRL degree/veteran direct-hire use. Individual appointment authority still must be verified on the vacancy/offer.", "source": { "title": "NSWC Corona career opportunities", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Corona/Career-Opportunities/EEO/", "locator": "STRL degree/veteran direct-hire and student/recent-graduate routes", "evidence_type": "official laboratory recruiting guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-99e620932c9c" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No specific open vacancy/appointment reviewed; current workforce-control exceptions and allocation caps require HR verification." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "NSWC Corona career opportunities", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Corona/Career-Opportunities/EEO/", "locator": "STRL degree/veteran direct-hire and student/recent-graduate routes", "evidence_type": "official laboratory recruiting guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-99e620932c9c" }, { "title": "Defense Research Enterprise Review", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Defense-Research-Enterprise-Review.pdf", "locator": "Workforce Finding 6, PDF p. 25", "evidence_type": "official commissioned enterprise review", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-06", "source_id": "src-c25e33eaea7e" } ], "research_scope": "Read current lab recruiting guidance and2026 enterprise review; examined July 2026 CECOM proposed demonstration notice but did not represent the proposal as effective policy." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-26", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "DARPA publishes an expert-recruitment route, but its public careers page does not establish whether section 4092 or another appointment authority will be used.", "routes": [ { "program": "DARPA program-manager recruitment", "administering_office": "DARPA technical-office leadership and personnel office", "audience": "Experienced technical leaders considering government service", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Program-manager candidates need the technical vision and leadership to conceive and manage ambitious defenseR&D programs.", "source": { "title": "DARPA: Become a program manager", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/careers/program-manager", "locator": "Appointment term; PM role; application route", "evidence_type": "official agency careers guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6c07b0bc3476" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Use the official PM-careers process; selection/HR must identify the actual hiring authority, term, ethics and compensation basis.", "source": { "title": "DARPA: Become a program manager", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/careers/program-manager", "locator": "Appointment term; PM role; application route", "evidence_type": "official agency careers guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6c07b0bc3476" } } ], "status": { "label": "Public careers route documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Page describes an initial two-year appointment with possible extension to four years, not a universal statutory maximum.", "source": { "title": "DARPA: Become a program manager", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/careers/program-manager", "locator": "Appointment term; PM role; application route", "evidence_type": "official agency careers guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6c07b0bc3476" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "No advertised salary or funded4092 slot count independently verified.", "kind": "agency personnel compensation", "period": "individual appointment-specific", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C.4092, 2024 official edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/pdf/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapII-sec4092.pdf", "locator": "(a) organization-specific programs; (b) authorities; sunset provisions", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b8400929138" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Named-organizational limits and sunsets still govern; the expired joint-AI paragraph must not be treated as revived merely because another organization recruits.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C.4092, 2024 official edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/pdf/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapII-sec4092.pdf", "locator": "(a) organization-specific programs; (b) authorities; sunset provisions", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b8400929138" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DARPA program-manager careers", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/careers/program-manager", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Expert career interest; no claim of an open specific4092 position." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DARPA is an organization named in section 4092, but its careers page does not identify that section as the authority for every program manager. This is a recruitment route, not a verified link to a particular appointment authority.", "source": { "title": "DARPA: Become a program manager", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/careers/program-manager", "locator": "Appointment term; PM role; application route", "evidence_type": "official agency careers guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6c07b0bc3476" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current4092 implementing delegation, actual slot usage and the authority on any given offer remain unverified.", "FY2027 legislative proposal addingEDU was found, but excluded as unenacted proposal." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DARPA: Become a program manager", "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/careers/program-manager", "locator": "Appointment term; PM role; application route", "evidence_type": "official agency careers guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6c07b0bc3476" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C.4092, 2024 official edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/pdf/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapII-sec4092.pdf", "locator": "(a) organization-specific programs; (b) authorities; sunset provisions", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b8400929138" } ], "research_scope": "Searched4092, predecessor1599h and eminent-expert hiring; checked current DARPA careers and exact statutory baseline. Avoided substituting9903 HighlyQualifiedExpert authority or treating proposedEDU expansion as law." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-27", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "A related STRL enhanced-pay process is public, but it operates under section 4121. It does not establish use of the distinct section 4094 program.", "routes": [ { "program": "STRL demonstration enhanced-pay framework", "administering_office": "Participating STRL leadership and Service acquisition/personnel authorities", "audience": "Exceptionally qualified senior technical candidates and internal hiring sponsors", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Participating laboratory needs a published demonstration plan and internal operating procedures; qualifying senior technical positions require approvals.", "source": { "title": "STRL enhanced-pay demonstration notice", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-07-06/pdf/2022-14308.pdf", "locator": "OverviewII; pay setting, performance plans and documentation", "evidence_type": "official personnel demonstration notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2022-07-06", "source_id": "src-929b8995f0a8" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Laboratory establishes pay-setting criteria and performance plans, documents the actual appointment authority and tracks use.", "source": { "title": "STRL enhanced-pay demonstration notice", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-07-06/pdf/2022-14308.pdf", "locator": "OverviewII; pay setting, performance plans and documentation", "evidence_type": "official personnel demonstration notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2022-07-06", "source_id": "src-929b8995f0a8" } } ], "status": { "label": "Related process published; section 4094 use unverified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "No appointment, current implementation memorandum or open vacancy specifically attributed to section 4094 was located.", "source": { "title": "STRL enhanced-pay demonstration notice", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-07-06/pdf/2022-14308.pdf", "locator": "OverviewII; pay setting, performance plans and documentation", "evidence_type": "official personnel demonstration notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2022-07-06", "source_id": "src-929b8995f0a8" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "4094 salary-setting is a personnel-pay authority, not a new appropriation; statutory approval tiers are not offered salaries.", "kind": "personnel compensation", "period": "position-specific", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C.4094, 2024 official edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/pdf/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapII-sec4094.pdf", "locator": "(b) approval; (d) pay; (e) position/term limitations", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e608435f701f" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "4094 normally permits five positions perService and terms shorter than five years; do not substitute4121 notice terms for these conditions.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C.4094, 2024 official edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/pdf/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapII-sec4094.pdf", "locator": "(b) approval; (d) pay; (e) position/term limitations", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e608435f701f" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read related STRL pay framework", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-07-06/pdf/2022-14308.pdf", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Internal personnel reference; not an external grant or a verified4094 vacancy." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The notice expressly uses section 4121 and documents legal-authority code Z2U; it does not prove an appointment or an available position under section 4094.", "source": { "title": "STRL enhanced-pay demonstration notice", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-07-06/pdf/2022-14308.pdf", "locator": "OverviewII; pay setting, performance plans and documentation", "evidence_type": "official personnel demonstration notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2022-07-06", "source_id": "src-929b8995f0a8" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Locate4094-specific Service implementation and actual approved positions; related4121 flexibility does not close that gap." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "STRL enhanced-pay demonstration notice", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-07-06/pdf/2022-14308.pdf", "locator": "OverviewII; pay setting, performance plans and documentation", "evidence_type": "official personnel demonstration notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2022-07-06", "source_id": "src-929b8995f0a8" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C.4094, 2024 official edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/pdf/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapII-sec4094.pdf", "locator": "(b) approval; (d) pay; (e) position/term limitations", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e608435f701f" } ], "research_scope": "Searched current4094 and predecessor enhanced-pay terminology; read the2022 notice in full and detected its different4121 authority. Examined recent lab-workforce review; no exact4094 use was found." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-28", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "A concrete application route with a commercialization plan, negotiated rights and royalty obligations.", "routes": [ { "program": "Navy patent and software commercialization — NRL example", "administering_office": "NRL Technology Transfer Office (Code 1004); Carderock has a separate TTO route", "audience": "Prospective commercial licensees of government technology", "eligibility": [ { "text": "NRL commercial licenses serve private-sector or mixed private/government markets; government-only sales are directed to its separate Government Purpose License process.", "source": { "title": "NRL commercial licensing", "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Doing-Business/Technology-Transfer/Commercial-Licenses/", "locator": "Commercial Licenses; application and submission address", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ece6c1fdb961" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Select the technology and complete the Navy invention-license application; NRL publishes submission to its TTO, including nrltechtran@us.navy.mil.", "source": { "title": "NRL commercial licensing", "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Doing-Business/Technology-Transfer/Commercial-Licenses/", "locator": "Commercial Licenses; application and submission address", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ece6c1fdb961" } }, { "text": "The application asks for commercialization milestones, target availability, investment needs, manufacturing countries, and financial and technical ability to execute.", "source": { "title": "Navy invention license application", "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Portals/38/PDF%20Files/Application%20for%20License%20to%20Practice%20Invention%20Editable%203%20Aug%2018_2.pdf?timestamp=1595858838948&ver=2020-07-27-100708-607", "locator": "Part III, item 14(a–c); form dated August 2018", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fe7e8eeb9ec6" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Carderock describes royalty and exclusivity terms as individually negotiated; licensing rights are not a grant to develop the product.", "source": { "title": "Carderock Technology Transfer Office", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Business/Technology-Transfer-Office/", "locator": "Patent License Agreement; partnership contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ea14b11d10a3" }, "kind": "Negotiated license / royalty obligations", "period": "License-specific" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The government retains government-use rights. Commercialization objectives, investment plans and time-to-market are evaluated; a patent listing is not an automatic license.", "source": { "title": "Carderock Technology Transfer Office", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Business/Technology-Transfer-Office/", "locator": "Patent License Agreement; partnership contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ea14b11d10a3" } } ], "status": { "label": "Application process published; terms negotiated", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The published process was checked; no award or appointment availability is inferred.", "source": { "title": "NRL commercial licensing", "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Doing-Business/Technology-Transfer/Commercial-Licenses/", "locator": "Commercial Licenses; application and submission address", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ece6c1fdb961" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Read the official process", "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Doing-Business/Technology-Transfer/Commercial-Licenses/", "type": "program information", "scope": "Information and institutional inquiry, not an award application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "These are operational federal-technology licensing examples. The record’s 35 USC 207/209 conditions remain separate from an individual lab’s application instructions.", "source": { "title": "NRL commercial licensing", "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Doing-Business/Technology-Transfer/Commercial-Licenses/", "locator": "Commercial Licenses; application and submission address", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ece6c1fdb961" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Availability of a particular invention, exclusive-license notices, negotiated rates and manufacturing exceptions require case-specific review." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "NRL commercial licensing", "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Doing-Business/Technology-Transfer/Commercial-Licenses/", "locator": "Commercial Licenses; application and submission address", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ece6c1fdb961" }, { "title": "Navy invention license application", "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Portals/38/PDF%20Files/Application%20for%20License%20to%20Practice%20Invention%20Editable%203%20Aug%2018_2.pdf?timestamp=1595858838948&ver=2020-07-27-100708-607", "locator": "Part III, item 14(a–c); form dated August 2018", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fe7e8eeb9ec6" }, { "title": "Carderock Technology Transfer Office", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Warfare-Centers/NSWC-Carderock/Business/Technology-Transfer-Office/", "locator": "Patent License Agreement; partnership contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ea14b11d10a3" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-29", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Published Army rules name authorized organizations and patent-counsel routing for IP purchases under section 3793. The 2026 regulatory restructuring requires contract-specific reconciliation.", "routes": [ { "program": "Army negotiated patent/copyright acquisition and claim release", "administering_office": "Named Army organizations and supporting chief patent counsel; other activities through specified written approval", "audience": "Government buyers and owners of relevant intellectual property", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Proposed license/assignment communications go promptly to supporting patent counsel; other activities need the specified written approval unless an express exception applies.", "source": { "title": "AFARS5127.7011 procurement of IP rights", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/afars/5127.7011-procurement-rights-inventions-patents-and-copyrights.", "locator": "Delegated organizations; written approval; patent-counsel routing", "evidence_type": "official Army acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-3947dce6ccf6" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Define required rights and covered claims; obtain counsel review, required approval and a negotiated written license/release.", "source": { "title": "AFARS5127.7011 procurement of IP rights", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/afars/5127.7011-procurement-rights-inventions-patents-and-copyrights.", "locator": "Delegated organizations; written approval; patent-counsel routing", "evidence_type": "official Army acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-3947dce6ccf6" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published Army route; current clause reconciliation needed", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The AFARS page effective July 11, 2025 remains published. The 2026 DoD deviation reserves former subpart 227.70, so legacy forms must be checked against current requirements.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part27 class deviation2026-O0036", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-27.pdf", "locator": "Effective February 1, 2026; Attachment 227.70 reserved; 227.71–72", "evidence_type": "official acquisition class deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c50e35d35134" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Purchase/license consideration is transaction-specific; no generalIP acquisition fund or available balance verified.", "kind": "negotiated acquisition/settlement consideration", "period": "contract-specific", "source": { "title": "AFARS5127.7011 procurement of IP rights", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/afars/5127.7011-procurement-rights-inventions-patents-and-copyrights.", "locator": "Delegated organizations; written approval; patent-counsel routing", "evidence_type": "official Army acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-3947dce6ccf6" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "An equipment purchase does not transfer ownership of all relatedIP or convey rights not negotiated.", "source": { "title": "AFARS5127.7011 procurement of IP rights", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/afars/5127.7011-procurement-rights-inventions-patents-and-copyrights.", "locator": "Delegated organizations; written approval; patent-counsel routing", "evidence_type": "official Army acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-3947dce6ccf6" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Army IP-rights acquisition routing", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/afars/5127.7011-procurement-rights-inventions-patents-and-copyrights.", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Negotiation through contracting/patent counsel, not a public startup-funding application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "AFARS 5127.7011 expressly cites section 3793 and identifies the organizations permitted to acquire rights or settle related claims.", "source": { "title": "AFARS5127.7011 procurement of IP rights", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/afars/5127.7011-procurement-rights-inventions-patents-and-copyrights.", "locator": "Delegated organizations; written approval; patent-counsel routing", "evidence_type": "official Army acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-3947dce6ccf6" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No executed3793 license/settlement amount independently verified; confirm current delegated approval and contract text afterRFO." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "AFARS5127.7011 procurement of IP rights", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/afars/5127.7011-procurement-rights-inventions-patents-and-copyrights.", "locator": "Delegated organizations; written approval; patent-counsel routing", "evidence_type": "official Army acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-3947dce6ccf6" }, { "title": "DoD RFO Part27 class deviation2026-O0036", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-27.pdf", "locator": "Effective February 1, 2026; Attachment 227.70 reserved; 227.71–72", "evidence_type": "official acquisition class deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c50e35d35134" } ], "research_scope": "Read exact Army3793 implementation and current DoDPart27 deviation; noted obsolete-subpart restructuring instead of assuming the old form package remains controlling." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-30", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "iEdison makes the subject-invention reporting and government-license process concrete; no DoD march-in exercise is established by that reporting system.", "routes": [ { "program": "Bayh-Dole invention reporting and agency rights administration", "administering_office": "Awarding agency patent-rights office; NIST operates iEdison", "audience": "Recipients of covered federal research funding agreements", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Covered subject inventions and funding agreements determine reporting and rights; identify each funding agency/award.", "source": { "title": "NIST About iEdison", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/iedison/about-iedison", "locator": "Capabilities: inventions, election, patents, confirmatory licenses and utilization", "evidence_type": "official interagency implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-406ea10ce54f" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Report invention, title election and patents; supply confirmatory government license/government-support statement and utilization information.", "source": { "title": "NIST About iEdison", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/iedison/about-iedison", "locator": "Capabilities: inventions, election, patents, confirmatory licenses and utilization", "evidence_type": "official interagency implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-406ea10ce54f" } }, { "text": "Use the funding-agency directory; inactive agencies require their own reporting instructions.", "source": { "title": "NIST iEdison Agency Contact List", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/iedison/agency-contact-list", "locator": "DoD/DARPA, Army, Navy/ONR andUSAF/AFOSR entries; inactive-agency caveat", "evidence_type": "official interagency routing directory", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-295ba085f558" } } ], "status": { "label": "Reporting implementation documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Current NIST guidance lists participating defense components; individual agency/award instructions govern.", "source": { "title": "NIST iEdison Agency Contact List", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/iedison/agency-contact-list", "locator": "DoD/DARPA, Army, Navy/ONR andUSAF/AFOSR entries; inactive-agency caveat", "evidence_type": "official interagency routing directory", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-295ba085f558" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Government-use rights derive from covered research funding; later procurement/use still needs lawful funds.", "kind": "rights attached to research funding", "period": "funding-agreement-specific", "source": { "title": "NIST Bayh-Dole regulations", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/tpo/policy-coordination/bayh-dole-act", "locator": "2023 final rule; agency implementation; march-in procedures", "evidence_type": "official regulatory guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2c8314f25477" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "March-in requires its separate statutory/administrative process; existence of a federal license is not proof of march-in or title seizure.", "source": { "title": "NIST Bayh-Dole regulations", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/tpo/policy-coordination/bayh-dole-act", "locator": "2023 final rule; agency implementation; march-in procedures", "evidence_type": "official regulatory guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2c8314f25477" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "iEdison reporting requirements", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/iedison/about-iedison", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Award-recipient compliance and agency rights management, not a new funding request." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "iEdison implements Bayh-Dole reporting and records confirmatory government licenses; it is not an acquisition or march-in application portal.", "source": { "title": "NIST About iEdison", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/iedison/about-iedison", "locator": "Capabilities: inventions, election, patents, confirmatory licenses and utilization", "evidence_type": "official interagency implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-406ea10ce54f" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No DoD march-in action, current case-specific petition or procurement exercise verified; no claim that the agency has never exercised such rights." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "NIST About iEdison", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/iedison/about-iedison", "locator": "Capabilities: inventions, election, patents, confirmatory licenses and utilization", "evidence_type": "official interagency implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-406ea10ce54f" }, { "title": "NIST iEdison Agency Contact List", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/iedison/agency-contact-list", "locator": "DoD/DARPA, Army, Navy/ONR andUSAF/AFOSR entries; inactive-agency caveat", "evidence_type": "official interagency routing directory", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-295ba085f558" }, { "title": "NIST Bayh-Dole regulations", "url": "https://www.nist.gov/tpo/policy-coordination/bayh-dole-act", "locator": "2023 final rule; agency implementation; march-in procedures", "evidence_type": "official regulatory guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2c8314f25477" } ], "research_scope": "Read currentNIST reporting, participant-agency and regulation pages; searched public march-in implementation. Kept government license, title election and conditional march-in separate; did not infer confidential invention data." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-31", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Contract authorization-and-consent clauses and the DOJ/Court of Federal Claims route provide the operating process for section 1498.", "routes": [ { "program": "Government-authorized patented-invention use and compensation claims", "administering_office": "Contracting officer and IP counsel; DOJ Civil Division for litigation", "audience": "Government contractors and affected patent owners", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Use must be for the government and authorized/consented to; scope depends on actual contract and clause.", "source": { "title": "FAR27.201-1 patent/copyright infringement", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/far/27.201-1", "locator": "General rule; authorization/consent; notice; indemnity", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cc67b13a85e0" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Review52.227-1 and its alternate before performance; report claims and assist the government under the applicable notice clause.", "source": { "title": "FAR52.227-1 Authorization and Consent", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.227-1", "locator": "Basic clause andAlternateI", "evidence_type": "official contract clause", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-29cbba916997" } }, { "text": "Patent-owner remedy is monetary litigation against the United States in the Court of Federal Claims where1498 applies.", "source": { "title": "Justice Manual4-4.000 Commercial Litigation", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-4-4000-commercial-litigation", "locator": "4-4.320 Patent Suits; relatedcopyright litigation", "evidence_type": "official litigation procedure", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-5ec009efef3c" } } ], "status": { "label": "Established contract/litigation process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Current FAR provisions and the Justice Manual describe the pathway; no pending-case outcome or particular consent determination was verified.", "source": { "title": "FAR27.201-1 patent/copyright infringement", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/far/27.201-1", "locator": "General rule; authorization/consent; notice; indemnity", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cc67b13a85e0" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Compensation exposure is not a published program award fund; counsel must evaluate indemnity and lawful settlement/judgment payment.", "kind": "contingent infringement compensation", "period": "claim/contract-specific", "source": { "title": "Justice Manual4-4.000 Commercial Litigation", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-4-4000-commercial-litigation", "locator": "4-4.320 Patent Suits; relatedcopyright litigation", "evidence_type": "official litigation procedure", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-5ec009efef3c" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "No patent-title confiscation or right to unrelated private-market sales, trade secrets or undisclosed manufacturing data.", "source": { "title": "FAR27.201-1 patent/copyright infringement", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/far/27.201-1", "locator": "General rule; authorization/consent; notice; indemnity", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cc67b13a85e0" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Authorization-and-consent process", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/far/27.201-1", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Government contract/IP-counsel process; not an application for a patent waiver." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "FAR 27.201-1 expressly implements section 1498 and connects authorization and consent with infringement notice and possible indemnity clauses.", "source": { "title": "FAR27.201-1 patent/copyright infringement", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/far/27.201-1", "locator": "General rule; authorization/consent; notice; indemnity", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cc67b13a85e0" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Specific patents, geographic facts, clause vintage and available defenses require case-specific analysis." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "FAR27.201-1 patent/copyright infringement", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/far/27.201-1", "locator": "General rule; authorization/consent; notice; indemnity", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cc67b13a85e0" }, { "title": "FAR52.227-1 Authorization and Consent", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/far/52.227-1", "locator": "Basic clause andAlternateI", "evidence_type": "official contract clause", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-29cbba916997" }, { "title": "Justice Manual4-4.000 Commercial Litigation", "url": "https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-4-4000-commercial-litigation", "locator": "4-4.320 Patent Suits; relatedcopyright litigation", "evidence_type": "official litigation procedure", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-5ec009efef3c" } ], "research_scope": "Read officialFAR implementation, clause scope andDOJ litigation manual; also located historical cases but did not treat their disputed facts as universally controlling.2026RFO applicability must be reconciled with actual contract terms." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-32", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Current DoD Part 27 deviation directly implements technical-data statutes; program teams still must separately obtain deliverables and sufficient license rights.", "routes": [ { "program": "Program IP strategy and negotiated technical-data/software rights", "administering_office": "Program manager, contracting officer, IP counsel and DoD IP Cadre support", "audience": "Government acquisition/sustainment teams and their contractors", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Classify commercial/noncommercial data/software, development-funding history, asserted restrictions and required uses.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part27 class deviation2026-O0036", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-27.pdf", "locator": "Effective February 1, 2026; Attachment 227.70 reserved; 227.71–72", "evidence_type": "official acquisition class deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c50e35d35134" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Plan lifecycleIP needs early; translate them into priced deliverables and rights, not a generic demand for all contractorIP.", "source": { "title": "Intellectual Property Guidebook for DoD Acquisition", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/dpc/announcements/docs/intellectual%20property%20guidebook%20for%20dod%20acquisition%20signed_508_Oct25.pdf", "locator": "IP strategy and acquisition planning; data delivery and license distinctions", "evidence_type": "official acquisition guidebook", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-04-30", "source_id": "src-f2a2f461f1d9" } }, { "text": "Distinguish undelivered contract-required data from additional desired data; evaluate negotiated license, option or escrow arrangements for the latter.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA technical-data provision", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section805", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current regulatory process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "DoD deviation 2026-O0036 took effect February 1, 2026. The 2025 guidebook supplies planning context; it does not override later law.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part27 class deviation2026-O0036", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-27.pdf", "locator": "Effective February 1, 2026; Attachment 227.70 reserved; 227.71–72", "evidence_type": "official acquisition class deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c50e35d35134" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Additional rights/deliverables may require negotiated consideration; funding alone does not erase private-expense protections.", "kind": "contract deliverables/license acquisition", "period": "contract-specific", "source": { "title": "Intellectual Property Guidebook for DoD Acquisition", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/dpc/announcements/docs/intellectual%20property%20guidebook%20for%20dod%20acquisition%20signed_508_Oct25.pdf", "locator": "IP strategy and acquisition planning; data delivery and license distinctions", "evidence_type": "official acquisition guidebook", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-04-30", "source_id": "src-f2a2f461f1d9" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Actual delivery/access and legal permission are separate; challenges to restrictive assertions follow the required procedures.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part27 class deviation2026-O0036", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-27.pdf", "locator": "Effective February 1, 2026; Attachment 227.70 reserved; 227.71–72", "evidence_type": "official acquisition class deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c50e35d35134" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Current DoD data-rights procedures", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-27.pdf", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Contract planning/administration, not a public funding application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DFARS 227.7100 expressly implements sections 3771–3775 and 3781–3786; the 2026 deviation supplies the controlling DoD regulatory text where applicable.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part27 class deviation2026-O0036", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-27.pdf", "locator": "Effective February 1, 2026; Attachment 227.70 reserved; 227.71–72", "evidence_type": "official acquisition class deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c50e35d35134" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No specific restriction challenge, license purchase or current§ 805 implementation directive verified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DoD RFO Part27 class deviation2026-O0036", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-27.pdf", "locator": "Effective February 1, 2026; Attachment 227.70 reserved; 227.71–72", "evidence_type": "official acquisition class deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c50e35d35134" }, { "title": "Intellectual Property Guidebook for DoD Acquisition", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/dpc/announcements/docs/intellectual%20property%20guidebook%20for%20dod%20acquisition%20signed_508_Oct25.pdf", "locator": "IP strategy and acquisition planning; data delivery and license distinctions", "evidence_type": "official acquisition guidebook", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-04-30", "source_id": "src-f2a2f461f1d9", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "FY2026 NDAA technical-data provision", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section805", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } ], "research_scope": "Read2026deviation statutory scope and currentIP planning materials; cross-checked enacted805. Did not treat unrelated sustainment news or aIPCadre advisory role as proof of transaction signature authority." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-33", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The original corpus snapshot omitted the enacted 2025 joint-facility expansion. The current record includes it; public implementing regulations and a specifically attributed project remain unverified.", "routes": [ { "program": "Section 4174 jointly funded test/R&D facilities", "administering_office": "Secretary of Defense or designee for joint agreements; responsible military-department Secretary for contract necessity", "audience": "Government program sponsors and eligible non-Federal partners", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Non-Federal participation requires a national-security-interest determination and compliance with other applicable law.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA P.L.119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section214,139 Stat.774–775", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Written agreements must allocate costs, access priorities, management/lead agency, ownership/IP and dispute resolution.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA P.L.119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section214,139 Stat.774–775", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Expansion enacted; regulations unverified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Implementation regulations were required within 180 days after December 18, 2025; no issued instrument was located in this research.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA P.L.119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section214,139 Stat.774–775", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Express RDT&E coverage includesBA1–3; O&M only to the extent used for authorized activities.", "kind": "contract/project cost-sharing authority", "period": "FY2026 law; project-specific funds", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA P.L.119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section214,139 Stat.774–775", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "No automatic appropriation, unrestricted construction grant or verified public intake.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA P.L.119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section214,139 Stat.774–775", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read enacted joint-facility conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Internal project/legal planning; no verified external application process." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Section 214 adds subsections 4174(d)–(f), extending covered contracts to jointly funded projects. Enacted authority is not proof that implementing procedures have been issued.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA P.L.119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section214,139 Stat.774–775", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Locate issued214 regulations/templates and an explicit4174 joint-project example before claiming operating readiness.", "Original legal_basis should includeP.L.119-60§ 214 and requirements/funding should reflect this amendment." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "FY2026 NDAA P.L.119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section214,139 Stat.774–775", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } ], "research_scope": "Read enacted214 in full; searched4174/predecessor2353, current legislative classification and acquisition/FMR references. Direct currentFMR access returned403. Avoided treating an old1982 project or general GOCO facility as proven4174 use." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-34", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "WSMR currently documents reimbursable commercial testing. Its older detailed customer-process page now returns HTTP 404 but remains indexed; current G-5 assignment and scheduling must be verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "White Sands Missile Range private-industry testing", "administering_office": "White Sands Missile Range customer/test sponsorship process; current G-5 assignment must be verified", "audience": "Private-industry test customers; separate routes for government and international customers", "eligibility": [ { "text": "White Sands identifies commercial testing customers; the specific test must still be scoped and coordinated with the range.", "source": { "title": "White Sands current mission and contact page", "url": "https://home.army.mil/wsmr/", "locator": "Quick Facts; Testing Business Development contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f49519f253f6" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The indexed historical process asks for a scope of work or quotation request, a support/cost estimate and a designated test sponsor. The original URL now returns404; confirm current routing before relying on its G-5 assignment.", "source": { "title": "White Sands private-industry customer process", "url": "https://www.atec.army.mil/wstc/g5sc.html", "locator": "Private Industry; Customer Handbook", "evidence_type": "historical official process; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed primary text reviewed; direct HTTP returned404 onOctober4,2026. No exact current replacement located.", "source_id": "src-fb60c23468b3" } }, { "text": "The current resource-management description identifies commercial/private test-customer funding and review, validation and processing of incoming funding documents; it does not publish a universal rate or booking calendar.", "source": { "title": "WSMR resource management — reimbursable test customers", "url": "https://home.army.mil/wsmr/unitstenants/directorate-resource-management-missionstest-center", "locator": "Budget Division: Reimbursable Focus; customer funding-document lifecycle", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-71ece16b9688" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "The current installation page describes testing as reimbursable; this is customer-paid access, not a production purchase or grant.", "source": { "title": "White Sands current mission and contact page", "url": "https://home.army.mil/wsmr/", "locator": "Quick Facts; Testing Business Development contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f49519f253f6" }, "kind": "Reimbursable test services", "period": "Test-specific estimate" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The process page distinguishes buying test services from competing for WSMR procurement contracts. Its linked 2018 handbook is historical planning guidance, not evidence of a current slot.", "source": { "title": "White Sands private-industry customer process", "url": "https://www.atec.army.mil/wstc/g5sc.html", "locator": "Private Industry; Customer Handbook", "evidence_type": "historical official process; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed primary text reviewed; direct HTTP returned404 onOctober4,2026. No exact current replacement located.", "source_id": "src-fb60c23468b3" } }, { "text": "The resource-management page documents customer funding administration, not an award application or a public test-booking calendar.", "source": { "title": "WSMR resource management — reimbursable test customers", "url": "https://home.army.mil/wsmr/unitstenants/directorate-resource-management-missionstest-center", "locator": "Budget Division: Reimbursable Focus; customer funding-document lifecycle", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-71ece16b9688" } } ], "status": { "label": "Commercial testing documented; detailed routing partly historical", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Current WSMR pages describe reimbursable commercial testing. The detailed G-5 page returned HTTP 404; indexed text is historical evidence, not verification of a current contact or an open test slot.", "source": { "title": "WSMR resource management — reimbursable test customers", "url": "https://home.army.mil/wsmr/unitstenants/directorate-resource-management-missionstest-center", "locator": "Budget Division: Reimbursable Focus; customer funding-document lifecycle", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-71ece16b9688" } }, "engagement": { "label": "WSMR current mission and institutional contact page", "url": "https://home.army.mil/wsmr/", "type": "institutional information", "scope": "Identify current test-customer routing; not a procurement bid or verified booking portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "White Sands is a documented commercial-test entry point relevant to the record. The public process page does not identify section 4175 as the authority for every agreement; confirm the selected legal vehicle with the range.", "source": { "title": "White Sands private-industry customer process", "url": "https://www.atec.army.mil/wstc/g5sc.html", "locator": "Private Industry; Customer Handbook", "evidence_type": "historical official process; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed primary text reviewed; direct HTTP returned404 onOctober4,2026. No exact current replacement located.", "source_id": "src-fb60c23468b3" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current rates, available dates, security/export restrictions and the agreement’s specific legal authority require range confirmation.", "Current G-5/customer representative assignment and a live detailed replacement for the archived process were not verified; use current institutional routing to confirm." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "White Sands private-industry customer process", "url": "https://www.atec.army.mil/wstc/g5sc.html", "locator": "Private Industry; Customer Handbook", "evidence_type": "historical official process; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed primary text reviewed; direct HTTP returned404 onOctober4,2026. No exact current replacement located. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 404 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications.", "source_id": "src-fb60c23468b3" }, { "title": "White Sands current mission and contact page", "url": "https://home.army.mil/wsmr/", "locator": "Quick Facts; Testing Business Development contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f49519f253f6" }, { "title": "WSMR resource management — reimbursable test customers", "url": "https://home.army.mil/wsmr/unitstenants/directorate-resource-management-missionstest-center", "locator": "Budget Division: Reimbursable Focus; customer funding-document lifecycle", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-71ece16b9688" } ], "research_scope": "Rechecked the oldG-5URL (404), indexed historical instructions, live WSMR homepage and resource-management page (HTTP200). The live /unitstenants/white-sands-test-center page contains legacy2014MICC/FBO material and was not treated as an equivalent commercial-test process replacement." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-35", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "DLA offers a concrete supply-procurement entry route; it is one example within broad departmental purchasing authority, not the exclusive contracting office.", "routes": [ { "program": "DLA supply procurement through DIBBS", "administering_office": "DLA supply-chain contracting activities; DLA Acquisition Directorate provides policy oversight", "audience": "Supply vendors responding to actual DLA requirements", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Complete the applicable SAM/CAGE and DIBBS registrations; quotation eligibility follows the particular solicitation.", "source": { "title": "DLA supplier onboarding", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Getting-Started/Product-and-Service-Search-for-Suppliers-and-Vendors/", "locator": "Getting Started: registrations and finding procurement opportunities", "evidence_type": "official supplier guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e6b9b2da753e" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Identify the relevant DLA supply chain; search DIBBS or SAM contract opportunities and submit through the solicitation-directed channel.", "source": { "title": "DLA supplier onboarding", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Getting-Started/Product-and-Service-Search-for-Suppliers-and-Vendors/", "locator": "Getting Started: registrations and finding procurement opportunities", "evidence_type": "official supplier guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e6b9b2da753e" } }, { "text": "Use the updated Supplier Portal/technical-data tools; electronic document upload is preferred where the solicitation permits it.", "source": { "title": "DLA EBS Supplier Information Resource Center", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Information-Operations/EBS-Supplier-Resources/", "locator": "Supplier Portal; July 2026 terms; electronic proposal uploads; export-controlled technical data", "evidence_type": "official supplier guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-1006dfdde4c7" } } ], "status": { "label": "Supplier process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "DLA posts July 2026 DIBBS terms and updated supplier resources; this is not a finding that a particular solicitation is open.", "source": { "title": "DLA EBS Supplier Information Resource Center", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Information-Operations/EBS-Supplier-Resources/", "locator": "Supplier Portal; July 2026 terms; electronic proposal uploads; export-controlled technical data", "evidence_type": "official supplier guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-1006dfdde4c7" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Prices, funded quantities and appropriation are solicitation/award-specific; DLA enterprise sales are not a vendor funding allocation.", "kind": "procurement contract", "period": "requirement-specific", "source": { "title": "DLA supplier onboarding", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Getting-Started/Product-and-Service-Search-for-Suppliers-and-Vendors/", "locator": "Getting Started: registrations and finding procurement opportunities", "evidence_type": "official supplier guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e6b9b2da753e" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Export-controlled drawings require the stated access and cybersecurity prerequisites; registration alone does not make a vendor eligible for every item.", "source": { "title": "DLA EBS Supplier Information Resource Center", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Information-Operations/EBS-Supplier-Resources/", "locator": "Supplier Portal; July 2026 terms; electronic proposal uploads; export-controlled technical data", "evidence_type": "official supplier guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-1006dfdde4c7" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DLA supplier getting-started route", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Getting-Started/Product-and-Service-Search-for-Suppliers-and-Vendors/", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Illustrative goods-procurement route; does not replace the actual solicitation or confer source approval." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The official onboarding route demonstrates ordinary supply procurement. It does not identify a single section authorizing every DIBBS order.", "source": { "title": "DLA supplier onboarding", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Getting-Started/Product-and-Service-Search-for-Suppliers-and-Vendors/", "locator": "Getting Started: registrations and finding procurement opportunities", "evidence_type": "official supplier guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e6b9b2da753e" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No universal intake exists for all Army, Navy, Air Force and agency contracts; no individual DLA award statutory citation was inferred." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DLA supplier onboarding", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Getting-Started/Product-and-Service-Search-for-Suppliers-and-Vendors/", "locator": "Getting Started: registrations and finding procurement opportunities", "evidence_type": "official supplier guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e6b9b2da753e" }, { "title": "DLA EBS Supplier Information Resource Center", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Information-Operations/EBS-Supplier-Resources/", "locator": "Supplier Portal; July 2026 terms; electronic proposal uploads; export-controlled technical data", "evidence_type": "official supplier guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-1006dfdde4c7" } ], "research_scope": "Read official onboarding and current supplier-system notices; checked ordinary competition in the 2026 Part6 deviation. Kept departmental procurement authority separate from a specific solicitation and budget." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-36", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Current DoD competition procedures provide an actionable government justification workflow; a vendor cannot elect sole-source treatment for itself.", "routes": [ { "program": "Other-than-full-and-open competition justification", "administering_office": "Procuring contracting officer, competition advocate and designated approval authority", "audience": "Government requirement owners; vendors responding to market research or an authorized solicitation", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Government must establish an applicable statutory exception; one-source assertions require the prescribed notice and market research.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 6 deviation 2026-O0017", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-6.pdf", "locator": "206.103; 206.104-70–72; PGI 206.104-70", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-11c2eb683929" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Prepare a fact-specific justification and approval; identify plans to remove barriers to future competition. Repeated one-source follow-ons require review of prior barrier-removal actions.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 6 deviation 2026-O0017", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-6.pdf", "locator": "206.103; 206.104-70–72; PGI 206.104-70", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-11c2eb683929" } }, { "text": "Apply amended statutory approval tiers and current agency delegations; FY2026 changed regular section3204(f) thresholds to $10m/$100m/$500m bands.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA competition approval amendments", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section1804(b), amendments to 10 U.S.C.3204(f)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Part 6 deviation is effective February 1, 2026; its 8(a) special approval rules must not be substituted for all section 3204 actions.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 6 deviation 2026-O0017", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-6.pdf", "locator": "206.103; 206.104-70–72; PGI 206.104-70", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-11c2eb683929" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "This determines competition procedure, not a new appropriation or automatic award.", "kind": "contract procurement", "period": "contract-specific", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 6 deviation 2026-O0017", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-6.pdf", "locator": "206.103; 206.104-70–72; PGI 206.104-70", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-11c2eb683929" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Published justification and approval procedures do not certify that any particular sole-source rationale is valid.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 6 deviation 2026-O0017", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-6.pdf", "locator": "206.103; 206.104-70–72; PGI 206.104-70", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-11c2eb683929" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DoD competition and justification procedures", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-6.pdf", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Government-led exception/approval process; no stand-alone company application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The deviation implements the statutory competition exceptions, expressly including section 3204 requirements for international-agreement justifications.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 6 deviation 2026-O0017", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-6.pdf", "locator": "206.103; 206.104-70–72; PGI 206.104-70", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-11c2eb683929" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No particular sole-source award, approving signature or agency-specific delegation independently verified; reconcile controlling statute with component RFO implementation." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DoD RFO Part 6 deviation 2026-O0017", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-6.pdf", "locator": "206.103; 206.104-70–72; PGI 206.104-70", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-11c2eb683929" }, { "title": "FY2026 NDAA competition approval amendments", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section1804(b), amendments to 10 U.S.C.3204(f)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } ], "research_scope": "Read all13 pages of the current Part6 deviation including PGI follow-on controls, and the enacted FY2026 amendment. Avoided mistaking sole-source8(a) thresholds for the regular justification tiers." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-37", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "SeaPort NxG is a documented Navy multiple-award IDIQ example; task-order participation is different from joining the parent vehicle.", "routes": [ { "program": "IDIQ formation and task-order procedures", "administering_office": "Ordering contracting activity and warranted contracting officer", "audience": "Government buyers and existing vehicle contract holders", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Order must remain within the parent contract scope, ordering period and ceiling; multiple-award holders generally receive fair opportunity.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 16 deviation 2026-O0045", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-16.pdf", "locator": "216.504-1; 216.506-1; 216.507", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-de1a27aeaa51" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Compete or justify the order under the applicable ordering rules; document an exception to fair opportunity when used.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 16 deviation 2026-O0045", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-16.pdf", "locator": "216.504-1; 216.506-1; 216.507", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-de1a27aeaa51" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "February 2026 Part 16 deviation supplies updated section numbering and procedures.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 16 deviation 2026-O0045", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-16.pdf", "locator": "216.504-1; 216.506-1; 216.507", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-de1a27aeaa51" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "A parent ceiling is not an obligation or forecast of revenue; actual orders carry funding.", "kind": "IDIQ/order contract", "period": "vehicle and order-specific", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 16 deviation 2026-O0045", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-16.pdf", "locator": "216.504-1; 216.506-1; 216.507", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-de1a27aeaa51" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "An order does not itself expand parent scope or extend its ordering period.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 16 deviation 2026-O0045", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-16.pdf", "locator": "216.504-1; 216.506-1; 216.507", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-de1a27aeaa51" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Current DoD IDIQ/order procedures", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-16.pdf", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Published process; verify the controlling notice before submission." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DFARS 216.504-1 implements section 3403, and the ordering provisions implement the statutory task-order framework.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 16 deviation 2026-O0045", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-16.pdf", "locator": "216.504-1; 216.506-1; 216.507", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-de1a27aeaa51" } } }, { "program": "SeaPort NxG engineering/program support services", "administering_office": "SeaPort NxG Program Management Office and authorized Navy ordering activities", "audience": "Existing MAC holders; prospective primes only during an announced admission window", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Prospective primes must register and submit a parent-contract proposal; two required registration components must both be confirmed.", "source": { "title": "SeaPort NxG registration instructions", "url": "https://vendornxg.seaport.navy.mil/RollingAdmissions/Reference/SeaPort%20NxG%20Registration%20Instructions.pdf", "locator": "Section1: two required registration components and limited registration window", "evidence_type": "official program instructions", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2decc266aa9b" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Monitor the next announced admission opportunity. Current holders follow the vehicle task-order process; registration is time-limited.", "source": { "title": "SeaPort NxG registration instructions", "url": "https://vendornxg.seaport.navy.mil/RollingAdmissions/Reference/SeaPort%20NxG%20Registration%20Instructions.pdf", "locator": "Section1: two required registration components and limited registration window", "evidence_type": "official program instructions", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2decc266aa9b" } } ], "status": { "label": "Rolling-admissions registration ended", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The checked registration endpoint explicitly says admissions registration has ended; no new open prime-entry window was verified.", "source": { "title": "SeaPort NxG rolling-admissions registration status", "url": "https://vendornxg.seaport.navy.mil/RollingAdmissions/TimesUp.aspx", "locator": "Registration for rolling admissions has ended", "evidence_type": "official portal status", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fd0daf2f9f3f" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Vehicle access does not promise a task-order award or funded minimum beyond the actual contract terms.", "kind": "IDIQ task-order procurement", "period": "current vehicle; orders separately funded", "source": { "title": "NAVSEA SeaPort NxG", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Small-Business-Partnerships/SeaPort-NxG/", "locator": "Rolling admissions and Multiple Award IDIQ description", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c69b6ed3c0e4" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Do not present the portal as continuously open to new prime contractors.", "source": { "title": "NAVSEA SeaPort NxG", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Small-Business-Partnerships/SeaPort-NxG/", "locator": "Rolling admissions and Multiple Award IDIQ description", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c69b6ed3c0e4" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "SeaPort NxG program and notices", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Small-Business-Partnerships/SeaPort-NxG/", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Published process; verify the controlling notice before submission." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "NAVSEA expressly describes SeaPort NxG as a multiple-award IDIQ; no individual order statutory approval is inferred.", "source": { "title": "NAVSEA SeaPort NxG", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Small-Business-Partnerships/SeaPort-NxG/", "locator": "Rolling admissions and Multiple Award IDIQ description", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c69b6ed3c0e4" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Individual task orders, current holder eligibility and any next on-ramp date require the controlling vehicle/notice." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DoD RFO Part 16 deviation 2026-O0045", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-16.pdf", "locator": "216.504-1; 216.506-1; 216.507", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-de1a27aeaa51" }, { "title": "NAVSEA SeaPort NxG", "url": "https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Small-Business-Partnerships/SeaPort-NxG/", "locator": "Rolling admissions and Multiple Award IDIQ description", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c69b6ed3c0e4" }, { "title": "SeaPort NxG registration instructions", "url": "https://vendornxg.seaport.navy.mil/RollingAdmissions/Reference/SeaPort%20NxG%20Registration%20Instructions.pdf", "locator": "Section1: two required registration components and limited registration window", "evidence_type": "official program instructions", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2decc266aa9b", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "SeaPort NxG rolling-admissions registration status", "url": "https://vendornxg.seaport.navy.mil/RollingAdmissions/TimesUp.aspx", "locator": "Registration for rolling admissions has ended", "evidence_type": "official portal status", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fd0daf2f9f3f", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "Read current Part16 ordering rules and official SeaPort program/registration materials. Checked the explicit closed-registration state rather than relying on an old rolling-admissions article." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-38", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Current multiyear-supply procedures and an actual CH-53K award demonstrate the mechanism without treating maximum contract value as obligated funding.", "routes": [ { "program": "Multiyear supplies approval and budget package", "administering_office": "Service acquisition leadership, program office, contracting officer and required congressional authorities", "audience": "Government equipment-acquisition programs and their selected suppliers", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Prepare the required multiyear findings, budget/full-funding and cancellation-liability analysis; product-specific authorizations may add conditions.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Use present-value cost analysis and obtain the applicable statutory/congressional approvals; distinguish economic-order-quantity advance procurement from financing unfunded later production.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } }, { "text": "FY2026 removed significant from the statutory savings finding; it did not waive the other requirements.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA multiyear supplies changes", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section804, amendments to3501 and product-specific authorities", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "February 2026 deviation publishes the $900 million adjusted specific-authorization threshold; later applicable law and product-specific conditions remain controlling.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Future-year quantities and cancellation exposure must be budgeted under the stated rules; a multiyear agreement does not guarantee future appropriations.", "kind": "multiyear procurement", "period": "program-specific", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Multiple annual options are not by themselves evidence of a section3501 multiyear contract.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DoD multiyear supply procedures", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Published process; verify the controlling notice before submission." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DFARS 217.103-172 expressly implements section 3501; the FY 2026 statutory amendment must also be applied.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } } }, { "program": "CH-53K five-year multiyear award example", "administering_office": "NAVAIR CH-53K program; Sikorsky as announced contractor", "audience": "Historical award example, not a new-company intake", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [], "steps": [], "status": { "label": "Award documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The award was signed September 26, 2025 for the 2025–2029 procurement period.", "source": { "title": "CH-53K enters multiyear procurement", "url": "https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/CH-53K-Program-Enters-Multi-Year-Procurement-Contract-Sikorsky/Fri-09262025-1416", "locator": "Opening two paragraphs: five-year contract, maximum99 aircraft, maximum value and savings estimate", "evidence_type": "official award news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-09-26", "source_id": "src-7e60ffd9fd47" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Maximum99 helicopters; approximately$10.9bn maximum value and$1.5bn projected savings, as announced. These are not current unobligated funds.", "kind": "announced multiyear contract maximum", "period": "2025–2029", "source": { "title": "CH-53K enters multiyear procurement", "url": "https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/CH-53K-Program-Enters-Multi-Year-Procurement-Contract-Sikorsky/Fri-09262025-1416", "locator": "Opening two paragraphs: five-year contract, maximum99 aircraft, maximum value and savings estimate", "evidence_type": "official award news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-09-26", "source_id": "src-7e60ffd9fd47" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The announcement is implementation evidence, not independent verification of realized savings or every option/obligation.", "source": { "title": "CH-53K enters multiyear procurement", "url": "https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/CH-53K-Program-Enters-Multi-Year-Procurement-Contract-Sikorsky/Fri-09262025-1416", "locator": "Opening two paragraphs: five-year contract, maximum99 aircraft, maximum value and savings estimate", "evidence_type": "official award news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-09-26", "source_id": "src-7e60ffd9fd47" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the official multiyear award example", "url": "https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/CH-53K-Program-Enters-Multi-Year-Procurement-Contract-Sikorsky/Fri-09262025-1416", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Historical program evidence; not an application portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "NAVAIR explicitly calls this a five-year multiyear procurement; its news release does not disclose the complete section 3501 finding/approval package.", "source": { "title": "CH-53K enters multiyear procurement", "url": "https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/CH-53K-Program-Enters-Multi-Year-Procurement-Contract-Sikorsky/Fri-09262025-1416", "locator": "Opening two paragraphs: five-year contract, maximum99 aircraft, maximum value and savings estimate", "evidence_type": "official award news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-09-26", "source_id": "src-7e60ffd9fd47" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current cancellation ceilings, product-specific appropriation conditions and realized CH-53K savings were not independently audited." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" }, { "title": "FY2026 NDAA multiyear supplies changes", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section804, amendments to3501 and product-specific authorities", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "CH-53K enters multiyear procurement", "url": "https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/CH-53K-Program-Enters-Multi-Year-Procurement-Contract-Sikorsky/Fri-09262025-1416", "locator": "Opening two paragraphs: five-year contract, maximum99 aircraft, maximum value and savings estimate", "evidence_type": "official award news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-09-26", "source_id": "src-7e60ffd9fd47" } ], "research_scope": "Read current Part17 supply provisions, enacted FY2026 amendment and dated NAVAIR award report. Explicitly separated multiyear procurement from an ordinary multi-year-duration contract." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-39", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "The 2026 DoD deviation directly implements section 3531 with narrow service categories, written findings and an adjusted $900 million specific-law threshold.", "routes": [ { "program": "Qualifying multiyear services determination", "administering_office": "Head of agency, service acquisition/contracting activity and program budget officials", "audience": "Government programs buying covered recurring services", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Covered services include facility operation/support, complex military-equipment maintenance, specialized training, base services and specified environmental remediation.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Agency head documents a continuing requirement, substantial initial investment or specialized-workforce contingent liabilities, and competition/economy benefits.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "February 1, 2026 deviation permits a term up to 5 years and requires specific law above $900 million. The underlying Code base amount is $500 million; do not present that base as the current implementing threshold.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Services and related supplies use the authorized multiyear funding/contingent-liability structure; appropriated funds and cancellation requirements remain transaction-specific.", "kind": "multiyear service contract", "period": "maximum five-year statutory term", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Not every service qualifies; a five-year base-plus-options or IDIQ announcement alone does not prove section3531 use.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Current multiyear-services conditions", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Government acquisition planning; no direct vendor funding application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DFARS 217.103-171 expressly cites section 3531(a), (b) and (d)(2), and implements its service-specific requirements.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No specific publicly documented service award was tied to3531 in this pass; do not infer such a tie from contract duration." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DoD RFO Part 17 deviation 2026-O0027", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-17.pdf", "locator": "217.103-170–172; PGI 217.103-171", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6927e96139a0" } ], "research_scope": "Read217.103-171 and its PGI, including the full eligibility findings and inflation-adjusted threshold. Searched implementation context but retained process coverage instead of attaching a loosely related long-term service award." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-40", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Statutory § 3458 CSOs have agency-specific contracting routes. A 2026 ACC/A2 notice is a concrete example, separate from DIU’s § 4022 OT-branded CSO.", "routes": [ { "program": "ACC/A2 and Air Force Intelligence Community CSO FA7037-26-S-C001 — illustrative route", "administering_office": "Air Combat Command/A2; Acquisition Management and Integration Center, Detachment 2, JBSA contracting office", "audience": "Commercial solution providers whose proposals address the solicitation’s mission areas", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The ACC notice requires solutions to align with the intelligence-community mission; proposals invoking wider DoD activity must explain that connection.", "source": { "title": "SAM.gov — ACC/A2 IC CSO FA7037-26-S-C001, 30 September 2026 action", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/824ee7281128468c80da8479109737c5/view", "locator": "Description, agency hierarchy, dates and Call 0001–0004 notices; official indexed notice text, direct browser returns JavaScript shell", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-155446e880a2" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Monitor the specific Calls and their deadlines. The general CSO must identify areas of interest, evaluation criteria, submission instructions and applicable data needs; a general announcement is not itself a funded order.", "source": { "title": "DFARS Subpart 212.70 — Defense Commercial Solutions Opening", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/node/34885/printable/print", "locator": "212.7002–212.7004: fixed-price contracting, solicitation contents, evaluation and fair/reasonable pricing", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-82e1b9e3507c" } } ], "status": { "label": "Umbrella documented; listed calls closed", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The 30 September 2026 action extends the umbrella response date to 30 September 2027, but its notices mark Calls 0001–0004 closed. Do not advertise those Calls as accepting submissions.", "source": { "title": "SAM.gov — ACC/A2 IC CSO FA7037-26-S-C001, 30 September 2026 action", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/824ee7281128468c80da8479109737c5/view", "locator": "Description, agency hierarchy, dates and Call 0001–0004 notices; official indexed notice text, direct browser returns JavaScript shell", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-155446e880a2" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "DFARS describes fixed-price contracting, including fixed-price incentive arrangements, with a fair-and-reasonable-price determination. No funded call ceiling was verified.", "kind": "Commercial procurement contract", "period": "September 2026 umbrella; call-specific funds unverified", "source": { "title": "DFARS Subpart 212.70 — Defense Commercial Solutions Opening", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/node/34885/printable/print", "locator": "212.7002–212.7004: fixed-price contracting, solicitation contents, evaluation and fair/reasonable pricing", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-82e1b9e3507c" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "§ 3458 procurement and DIU’s § 4022 prototype CSO are different legal paths. A current umbrella notice or peer review does not itself authorize an award.", "source": { "title": "DIU Commercial Solutions Opening HQ0845-20-S-C001, Amendment 0001", "url": "https://s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/publicdocs.diu.mil/DIU_CSO_Amend_0001_HQ0845-20-S-C001.pdf", "locator": "Sections 1.2, 1.4, 2 and 3; PDF pp. 2–5", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-64da90207e7c" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "ACC/A2 official SAM notice", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/824ee7281128468c80da8479109737c5/view", "type": "solicitation index", "scope": "Read the latest action and an actually accepting Call before preparing a response." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The ACC notice expressly invokes 10 USC 3458 and R-DFARS 212.70.", "source": { "title": "SAM.gov — ACC/A2 IC CSO FA7037-26-S-C001, 30 September 2026 action", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/824ee7281128468c80da8479109737c5/view", "locator": "Description, agency hierarchy, dates and Call 0001–0004 notices; official indexed notice text, direct browser returns JavaScript shell", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-155446e880a2" } }, "relationship_type": "direct implementation" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "The current SAM page renders as a JavaScript shell in direct extraction; official indexed notice text supplied the findings. Full current call attachments were not retrieved. The reviewed generic DFARS text may lag the FY 2026 statutory amendment; do not replace the amended-law record with older regulatory wording." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "SAM.gov — ACC/A2 IC CSO FA7037-26-S-C001, 30 September 2026 action", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/824ee7281128468c80da8479109737c5/view", "locator": "Description, agency hierarchy, dates and Call 0001–0004 notices; official indexed notice text, direct browser returns JavaScript shell", "result": "Official indexed primary notice reviewed; direct extraction returned JavaScript shell", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-155446e880a2" }, { "title": "DFARS Subpart 212.70 — Defense Commercial Solutions Opening", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/node/34885/printable/print", "locator": "212.7002–212.7004: fixed-price contracting, solicitation contents, evaluation and fair/reasonable pricing", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-82e1b9e3507c" }, { "title": "DIU Commercial Solutions Opening HQ0845-20-S-C001, Amendment 0001", "url": "https://s3.us-gov-west-1.amazonaws.com/publicdocs.diu.mil/DIU_CSO_Amend_0001_HQ0845-20-S-C001.pdf", "locator": "Sections 1.2, 1.4, 2 and 3; PDF pp. 2–5", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-64da90207e7c" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-41", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Current financing rules explain what a contractor must negotiate and submit; financing is attached to a contract, not a free-standing investment program.", "routes": [ { "program": "Cost-based progress and performance-based contract payments", "administering_office": "Procuring/administrative contracting officer; DoD pricing and finance support", "audience": "Contractors negotiating or administering eligible contracts", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Select an eligible contract and financing method; government liability remains bounded by obligated funds and the agreed terms.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 32 deviation 2026-O0022", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-32.pdf", "locator": "232.104; 232.501-1; 232.501-3; 232.1004", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b63ae101d48" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "For performance-based payments propose completion events, objective criteria, event values and projected monthly spending; the contracting officer evaluates and negotiates these using the DoD analysis tool.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 32 deviation 2026-O0022", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-32.pdf", "locator": "232.104; 232.501-1; 232.501-3; 232.1004", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b63ae101d48" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "February 2026 deviation lists customary cost-progress rates of 80% for large businesses and 90% for small businesses; these are not the temporary pandemic rates.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 32 deviation 2026-O0022", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-32.pdf", "locator": "232.104; 232.501-1; 232.501-3; 232.1004", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b63ae101d48" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Cost-progress payments and agreed performance-event payments provide contract cash flow; one financing method normally applies unless separate-order exceptions are authorized.", "kind": "contract financing", "period": "contract-specific", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 32 deviation 2026-O0022", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-32.pdf", "locator": "232.104; 232.501-1; 232.501-3; 232.1004", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b63ae101d48" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The FY2026 subscription/consumption clarification excludes covered commercially structured service payments from advance-payment treatment for3803; it is not a blanket fiscal-law waiver.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA commercial-service payment clarification", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section1827; new3805(d)(2) and(e)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Current contract-financing procedures", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-32.pdf", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Route through the actual contracting officer; no unsolicited loan or equity application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Part 232 implements the contract-financing framework and expressly cites section 3801 for accelerated small-business payments.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 32 deviation 2026-O0022", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-32.pdf", "locator": "232.104; 232.501-1; 232.501-3; 232.1004", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b63ae101d48" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No contractor-specific payment approval or current implementation notice for the new3805 clarification was verified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DoD RFO Part 32 deviation 2026-O0022", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-32.pdf", "locator": "232.104; 232.501-1; 232.501-3; 232.1004", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4b63ae101d48" }, { "title": "FY2026 NDAA commercial-service payment clarification", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section1827; new3805(d)(2) and(e)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } ], "research_scope": "Read Part32 deviation, progress-payment rates and performance-based payment artifacts; checked the enacted1827 language against broad subscription-financing claims." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-42", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "JRAC explicitly identifies its section 3601 recommendation role; it is an internal urgent-needs coordination route, not a public grant application.", "routes": [ { "program": "JRAC rapid-acquisition-authority coordination", "administering_office": "Executive Director, Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell; designated DoD component; Secretary-level decision authority", "audience": "Combatant commands and government sponsors of validated urgent needs", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Urgent operational materiel/logistics needs are government-certified and validated through the relevant urgent-needs process.", "source": { "title": "Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell responsibilities", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "locator": "Funding Urgent Warfighter Needs; Joint Urgent/Emergent Need; Mission", "evidence_type": "official office implementation description", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80bde141f7bd" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "JRAC evaluates validated needs, identifies responsible components, recommends RAA use and coordinates funding issues with the Comptroller; executing activities retain contracting responsibilities.", "source": { "title": "Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell responsibilities", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "locator": "Funding Urgent Warfighter Needs; Joint Urgent/Emergent Need; Mission", "evidence_type": "official office implementation description", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80bde141f7bd" } } ], "status": { "label": "Process and current manual identified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The issuance index lists Change 1 to DoDI 5000.78 on September 9, 2026. Access to the full new manual was blocked, so its revised routing details were not verified.", "source": { "title": "WHS current manuals index", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodm/", "locator": "DoWM5000.78 row: Change1 September 9, 2026", "evidence_type": "official issuance index", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-65b36e570da7" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "JRAC advises on required resources and resolution of funding issues; the office description is not evidence of an available project allocation.", "kind": "government urgent-capability funding coordination", "period": "case-specific", "source": { "title": "Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell responsibilities", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "locator": "Funding Urgent Warfighter Needs; Joint Urgent/Emergent Need; Mission", "evidence_type": "official office implementation description", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80bde141f7bd" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "JRAC coordination does not itself award a vendor contract or establish that every rapid procurement invokes3601.", "source": { "title": "Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell responsibilities", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "locator": "Funding Urgent Warfighter Needs; Joint Urgent/Emergent Need; Mission", "evidence_type": "official office implementation description", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80bde141f7bd" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "JRAC published responsibilities", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Government sponsor/routing information; no company application intake advertised." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The official office page expressly names 10 U.S.C. 3601 as a basis for recommendations to the Secretary on RAA use.", "source": { "title": "Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell responsibilities", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "locator": "Funding Urgent Warfighter Needs; Joint Urgent/Emergent Need; Mission", "evidence_type": "official office implementation description", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80bde141f7bd" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Read the September 2026 changed manual before using detailed routing/approval templates; no individual current3601 determination or uncommitted funding balance verified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell responsibilities", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "locator": "Funding Urgent Warfighter Needs; Joint Urgent/Emergent Need; Mission", "evidence_type": "official office implementation description", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80bde141f7bd", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "WHS current manuals index", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Directives/issuances/dodm/", "locator": "DoWM5000.78 row: Change1 September 9, 2026", "evidence_type": "official issuance index", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-65b36e570da7" }, { "title": "Rapid Acquisition Authority manual", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodm/500078m.pdf", "locator": "DoWM5000.78; Change1 listed September 9, 2026; PDF access blocked in this research environment", "evidence_type": "official manual; access-limited", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-3d4272b1e9ab" } ], "research_scope": "Checked exact statutory linkage on the indexed official JRAC page and the current WHS issuance index. Direct JRAC requests timed out and the manual PDF returned403; did not substitute outdated2015/2019 detailed procedures as current instructions." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-43", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "MTA is an internal acquisition pathway, not a company application program or independent source of award funds.", "routes": [ { "program": "Middle Tier of Acquisition — rapid prototyping and rapid fielding", "administering_office": "Sponsoring component Program Manager and Decision Authority; Component Acquisition Executive and USD(A&S) oversight as applicable", "audience": "Government capability sponsors and acquisition teams; vendors compete through separately selected award instruments", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The component must have an approved need and Decision Authority memorandum supporting MTA use; MDAP-equivalent efforts require additional USD(A&S) approval before obligation.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 5000.80, Change 1, 25 November 2024", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/500080p.PDF", "locator": "Sections 3.1–3.2 and 4.1; indexed official PDF text; direct retrieval returned HTTP 403", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6d8589802c4f" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Prepare the acquisition/funding strategy, cost estimate and test approach. 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A component sponsor, program decision and separate lawful award mechanism are needed.", "source": { "title": "WarU — Middle Tier of Acquisition document identification", "url": "https://www.waru.edu/aafdid/mta", "locator": "MTA pathway and documentation guidance; official indexed page", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed page text reviewed; direct HTTP403 onOctober4,2026. Access-limited, not missing.", "source_id": "src-b4f868daefbc" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "MTA documentation and pathway guidance", "url": "https://www.waru.edu/aafdid/mta", "type": "government process guidance", "scope": "For the government sponsor to route through its component PM/Decision Authority; not vendor intake.", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed page text reviewed; direct HTTP403 onOctober4,2026. 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Current WarU page rechecked: directHTTP403, full indexed primary overview and document-table discussion available; retained the canonicalURL and explicitly labeled access limitation." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-44", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Software pathway planning has concrete documents and user commitments; current oversight shows that nominal pathway adoption does not guarantee effective user engagement.", "routes": [ { "program": "Software Acquisition Pathway planning and execution", "administering_office": "Program decision authority, program manager, operational sponsor and contracting activity", "audience": "Government software programs and selected development partners", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Program sponsor defines capability needs; users commit to ongoing participation and feedback.", "source": { "title": "Software R&M engineering guidance addendum", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/BoK-SW-Addendum-April2026.pdf", "locator": "Section 1.2.1 planning phase and 1.2.2 execution; source note 2 to DoDI 5000.87", "evidence_type": "official engineering guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-288e524ac2c9" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Prepare capability needs statement, acquisition strategy, test/evaluation strategy, user agreement and value assessment before execution; maintain iterative development and evaluation.", "source": { "title": "Software R&M engineering guidance addendum", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/BoK-SW-Addendum-April2026.pdf", "locator": "Section 1.2.1 planning phase and 1.2.2 execution; source note 2 to DoDI 5000.87", "evidence_type": "official engineering guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-288e524ac2c9" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current process documented; newer policy identified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The April 2026 guidance remains a documented process source. 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Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-46", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The new consumption-based authority is codified, but no public implementing subcategory, current solicitation or award expressly attributed to section 3605 was verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "Consumption-based acquisition — implementation gap", "administering_office": "Secretary of Defense/military departments named by statute; executing contracting activity not verified", "audience": "Government service buyers and potential suppliers of metered capabilities", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The model must meter actual use and bill at predetermined fixed-price units; hardware, software, data and labor may be combined.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C.3605 current OLRC text", "url": "https://usc-cdn.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title10-section3605", "locator": "Section3605(a)–(e); law-through date September 17, 2026", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b09b532d437d" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The statute directs a DFARS Part237 category, including notifications at 75% and90% of funded consumption; a published implemented workflow was not located.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C.3605 current OLRC text", "url": "https://usc-cdn.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title10-section3605", "locator": "Section3605(a)–(e); law-through date September 17, 2026", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b09b532d437d" } } ], "status": { "label": "Enacted; implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Current OLRC text is available with laws through September 17, 2026. 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This establishes statutory scope, not that a particular cloud or satellite contract uses it.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C.3605 current OLRC text", "url": "https://usc-cdn.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title10-section3605", "locator": "Section3605(a)–(e); law-through date September 17, 2026", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b09b532d437d" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Required DFARS implementation, delegations, named procurements, current appropriations and award examples remain unverified.", "The older FY2021 consumption pilot is a distinct legislative basis; no continuity to a current award was inferred." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C.3605 current OLRC text", "url": "https://usc-cdn.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title10-section3605", "locator": "Section3605(a)–(e); law-through date September 17, 2026", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b09b532d437d", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "DoD RFO Part37 deviation", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-37.pdf", "locator": "Full Part237 searched for3605/consumption-based new subcategory", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a25053b8839f" }, { "title": "FY2026 NDAA commercial-service payment clarification", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section1827; new3805(d)(2) and(e)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } ], "research_scope": "Searched exact3605 and consumption-based terms in official DARS/acquisition sources, current Part37 and Part32 deviations, enacted1825/1827 and OLRC. DARS case-status page was inaccessible; search absence is not proof of nonimplementation." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-47", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "The section 843 pathway has an issued deviation and a concrete 2026 Navy implementation notice; the notice documents requests and approval routing, not completed awards.", "routes": [ { "program": "Special rapid contracting for combatant commanders", "administering_office": "Requesting combatant command; applicable Army/Air Force/Navy/USSOCOM head of contracting activity; executing contracting officers", "audience": "Government operational requirement owners", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "A covered operational request must meet statutory conditions; the2026 Navy notice says HCA approval is required for the designated contingency operation.", "source": { "title": "Navy acquisition policy push", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/rda/DASN-P/Pages/DASN%28P%29-Policy-Push.aspx", "locator": "Acquisition Authority for Operation Epic Fury; CENTCOM March 10 / EUCOM March 3, 2026 requests", "evidence_type": "official current implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-11eb657d3d69" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "After HCA approval, establish internal procedures/training and issue formal determinations to contracting officers/cardholders; permitted delegation to senior contracting officials does not turn a combatant commander into the signing contracting officer.", "source": { "title": "Navy acquisition policy push", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/rda/DASN-P/Pages/DASN%28P%29-Policy-Push.aspx", "locator": "Acquisition Authority for Operation Epic Fury; CENTCOM March 10 / EUCOM March 3, 2026 requests", "evidence_type": "official current implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-11eb657d3d69" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current use of request process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Navy reports CENTCOM March 10, 2026 and EUCOM March 3, 2026 requests supporting the designated operation; this is not evidence every requested action was approved.", "source": { "title": "Navy acquisition policy push", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/rda/DASN-P/Pages/DASN%28P%29-Policy-Push.aspx", "locator": "Acquisition Authority for Operation Epic Fury; CENTCOM March 10 / EUCOM March 3, 2026 requests", "evidence_type": "official current implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-11eb657d3d69" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Covered purchases still require an identified funded government need; the deviation is not a separate company funding pool.", "kind": "operational procurement flexibility", "period": "temporary authority through September 30, 2028 unless changed", "source": { "title": "Class Deviation2024-O0011", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/policy/policyvault/USA000468-24-DPC.pdf", "locator": "Memorandum and attachment: Special Acquisition Authority for Rapid Contracting for Combatant Commanders", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-04-15", "source_id": "src-5956b31d78f8" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The special acquisition authorities are bounded by the statute/deviation; no universal exemption or automatic award.", "source": { "title": "Class Deviation2024-O0011", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/policy/policyvault/USA000468-24-DPC.pdf", "locator": "Memorandum and attachment: Special Acquisition Authority for Rapid Contracting for Combatant Commanders", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-04-15", "source_id": "src-5956b31d78f8" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the Navy implementation notice", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/rda/DASN-P/Pages/DASN%28P%29-Policy-Push.aspx", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Government operational contracting process; not public proposal intake." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Class Deviation 2024-O0011 expressly implements FY 2024 NDAA section 843 special acquisition authorities.", "source": { "title": "Class Deviation2024-O0011", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/policy/policyvault/USA000468-24-DPC.pdf", "locator": "Memorandum and attachment: Special Acquisition Authority for Rapid Contracting for Combatant Commanders", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-04-15", "source_id": "src-5956b31d78f8" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No individual approved determination, card purchase or contract award under843 verified; current activity-specific delegation must be checked." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "Class Deviation2024-O0011", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/policy/policyvault/USA000468-24-DPC.pdf", "locator": "Memorandum and attachment: Special Acquisition Authority for Rapid Contracting for Combatant Commanders", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-04-15", "source_id": "src-5956b31d78f8", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "Navy acquisition policy push", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/rda/DASN-P/Pages/DASN%28P%29-Policy-Push.aspx", "locator": "Acquisition Authority for Operation Epic Fury; CENTCOM March 10 / EUCOM March 3, 2026 requests", "evidence_type": "official current implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-11eb657d3d69" }, { "title": "FY2024 NDAA enhanced COCOM rapid contracting", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ31/html/PLAW-118publ31.htm", "locator": "Section843", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2023-12-22", "source_id": "src-55db56d823cc" } ], "research_scope": "Matched the enacted843 to the named2024deviation and a dated2026 official Navy operational notice. Original PDF direct access failed; primary indexed text and official cross-reference establish the bridge. Preserved request-versus-approval distinction." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-48", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "A commander-level experimentation power is enacted, but this research did not verify a public implementing procedure or award expressly using section 873.", "routes": [ { "program": "Combatant-command experimentation authority", "administering_office": "Combatant commander and responsible senior contracting official", "audience": "Government operational sponsors; performers through an identified solicitation", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The command identifies its operational need; special contracting procedures require the843 process.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA combatant-command experimentation", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section873", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "A commander may document successful demonstration against the need; the senior contracting official must still apply the relevant follow-on legal requirements.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA combatant-command experimentation", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section873", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Authority enacted; attributed use unverified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "No public award, delegation or intake specifically attributed to section 873 was located.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA combatant-command experimentation", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section873", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "No independent appropriation or universally available experiment fund established by the section.", "kind": "authority; separately funded execution", "period": "authority expiresSeptember30, 2028", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA combatant-command experimentation", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section873", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Not a commander signature substitute or automatic noncompetitive production award.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA combatant-command experimentation", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section873", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read section873 conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Statutory reference; not a verified submission portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Section 873 grants command experimentation authority and conditionally permits section 843 procedures. Neither fact establishes that a named exercise uses those authorities.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA combatant-command experimentation", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section873", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Search command-specific solicitations for explicit873 authority and verify current delegation/appropriation before linking a transaction." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "FY2026 NDAA combatant-command experimentation", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section873", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } ], "research_scope": "Searched exact section/name across military sites and public notices, legislative texts and official command experimentation references. Generic exercises and professional commentary did not establish a873 tie and were excluded." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-49", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Quick Start has a verified JRAC routing role and historical R-GPS implementation, but that example’s follow-on was reported cancelled and is not a current application opportunity.", "routes": [ { "program": "Government Quick Start development selection", "administering_office": "Secretary-level decision; JRAC recommendation/coordination; sponsoring component", "audience": "Government sponsors of urgent development starts", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Government selection and required determinations precede use; annual aggregate cap and transition/sunset controls apply.", "source": { "title": "FY2024 NDAA Quick Start", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ31/html/PLAW-118publ31.htm", "locator": "Section229", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2023-12-22", "source_id": "src-55db56d823cc" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Use government sponsorship and JRAC/component coordination; the published office role is not a company application form.", "source": { "title": "Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell responsibilities", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "locator": "Funding Urgent Warfighter Needs; Joint Urgent/Emergent Need; Mission", "evidence_type": "official office implementation description", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80bde141f7bd" } } ], "status": { "label": "Government mechanism documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "JRAC publicly names the statutory basis; no current government nomination calendar was verified.", "source": { "title": "Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell responsibilities", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "locator": "Funding Urgent Warfighter Needs; Joint Urgent/Emergent Need; Mission", "evidence_type": "official office implementation description", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80bde141f7bd" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Section229’s$100m annual authority is a department-wide limit, not an individual award or open allocation.", "kind": "urgent-development funding flexibility", "period": "annual statutory ceiling", "source": { "title": "FY2024 NDAA Quick Start", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ31/html/PLAW-118publ31.htm", "locator": "Section229", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2023-12-22", "source_id": "src-55db56d823cc" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Initial period is one year with a possible one-year extension under the specified conditions; later program funding is not assured.", "source": { "title": "FY2024 NDAA Quick Start", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ31/html/PLAW-118publ31.htm", "locator": "Section229", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2023-12-22", "source_id": "src-55db56d823cc" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "JRAC Quick Start routing description", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Internal government selection/routing, not vendor self-nomination." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "JRAC explicitly identifies section 229 of P.L. 118-31 alongside section 3601 as part of its recommendation responsibility.", "source": { "title": "Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell responsibilities", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "locator": "Funding Urgent Warfighter Needs; Joint Urgent/Emergent Need; Mission", "evidence_type": "official office implementation description", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80bde141f7bd" } } }, { "program": "R-GPS Quick Start design agreements — historical", "administering_office": "Space Systems Command, Resilient GPS program", "audience": "Historical implementation example", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [], "steps": [], "status": { "label": "Historical awards; follow-on reported discontinued", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "January 20, 2026 reporting, quoting an SSC spokesperson, says initial work was complete and next-phase funding was omitted from the FY 2026 request. This is not an open program.", "source": { "title": "R-GPS follow-on cancellation report", "url": "https://insidegnss.com/space-force-cancels-resilient-gps-smallsat-layer-citing-budget-priorities/", "locator": "Opening paragraphs and Budget headwinds; cites SpaceNews interview with SSC spokesperson", "evidence_type": "public reporting quoting agency; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-01-20", "source_id": "src-dca690f9289d" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Four2024agreements supported design concepts by Astranis, Axient, L3Harris and Sierra Space; the record does not establish a current follow-on funding allocation.", "kind": "historical development agreements", "period": "September 2024", "source": { "title": "Space Force Quick Start R-GPS agreements", "url": "https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3914829/space-force-awards-four-quick-start-resilient-gps-agreements/", "locator": "September 23, 2024 announcement; four design-concept agreements", "evidence_type": "official award news; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-09-23", "source_id": "src-8d76b4061273" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Reported cancellation is secondary reporting, distinguished from the primary award/authority evidence.", "source": { "title": "USSF official chronology2019–2024", "url": "https://www.dafhistory.af.mil/Portals/16/SpaceForceData/USAF-HOS-Publications/USSF_Chronology_2019-2024.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.59, September 23, 2024 Quick Start entry", "evidence_type": "official historical record", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e5a2cff4b6ee" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the historical R-GPS award report", "url": "https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3914829/space-force-awards-four-quick-start-resilient-gps-agreements/", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Historical evidence only; not intake." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Official USSF chronology explicitly says the September 2024 R-GPS agreements used Quick Start authority.", "source": { "title": "USSF official chronology2019–2024", "url": "https://www.dafhistory.af.mil/Portals/16/SpaceForceData/USAF-HOS-Publications/USSF_Chronology_2019-2024.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.59, September 23, 2024 Quick Start entry", "evidence_type": "official historical record", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e5a2cff4b6ee" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No later official reversal, current open R-GPS intake or publicly accessibleFY2026 Quick Start selections verified; latest cancellation status rests on attributed public reporting." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell responsibilities", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/jrac/index.html", "locator": "Funding Urgent Warfighter Needs; Joint Urgent/Emergent Need; Mission", "evidence_type": "official office implementation description", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80bde141f7bd", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "FY2024 NDAA Quick Start", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ31/html/PLAW-118publ31.htm", "locator": "Section229", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2023-12-22", "source_id": "src-55db56d823cc" }, { "title": "Space Force Quick Start R-GPS agreements", "url": "https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3914829/space-force-awards-four-quick-start-resilient-gps-agreements/", "locator": "September 23, 2024 announcement; four design-concept agreements", "evidence_type": "official award news; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-09-23", "source_id": "src-8d76b4061273" }, { "title": "USSF official chronology2019–2024", "url": "https://www.dafhistory.af.mil/Portals/16/SpaceForceData/USAF-HOS-Publications/USSF_Chronology_2019-2024.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.59, September 23, 2024 Quick Start entry", "evidence_type": "official historical record", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e5a2cff4b6ee" }, { "title": "R-GPS follow-on cancellation report", "url": "https://insidegnss.com/space-force-cancels-resilient-gps-smallsat-layer-citing-budget-priorities/", "locator": "Opening paragraphs and Budget headwinds; cites SpaceNews interview with SSC spokesperson", "evidence_type": "public reporting quoting agency; indexed access", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-01-20", "source_id": "src-dca690f9289d" } ], "research_scope": "Read exactJRAC229bridge and official USSF chronology/award evidence, then checked later funding/status reporting. Primary article was403 on direct fetch; chronology and indexed official text corroborate historical use. Avoided representing a2025legislative proposal as enacted increased funding." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-50", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The alternative pathway remains a specifically designated government acquisition process; publication of implementing guidance or a designation was not verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "Alternative iterative test-and-evaluation pathway", "administering_office": "Secretary of Defense; military-department acquisition/test leadership; DOT&E oversight", "audience": "Government program managers and test organizations", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Covered program must meet the statutory designation/pathway conditions; exceptions are not automatically applicable to all tests.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA alternative test pathway", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section218(b)–(f),139 Stat.776–778", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Establish unified test and data strategies, government raw-data access and independent evaluation arrangements.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA alternative test pathway", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section218(b)–(f),139 Stat.776–778", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Guidance and designated use unverified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The 180-day guidance deadline has passed; no public issuance or program designation was located in the searched sources.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA alternative test pathway", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section218(b)–(f),139 Stat.776–778", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Program resources must support collection, storage and analytics; no freestanding grant or appropriation.", "kind": "internal program lifecycle funding", "period": "program-specific", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA alternative test pathway", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section218(b)–(f),139 Stat.776–778", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Independent DOT&E evaluation remains; no proof that a generic digital-test or software program uses218.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA alternative test pathway", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section218(b)–(f),139 Stat.776–778", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read statutory pathway requirements", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Government acquisition/test planning only." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Section 218 requires the pathway and guidance; an unrelated iterative-testing news story is not evidence of designation under this section.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA alternative test pathway", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section218(b)–(f),139 Stat.776–778", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Issued guidance, actual designated programs and funded test-data arrangements remain unverified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "FY2026 NDAA alternative test pathway", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section218(b)–(f),139 Stat.776–778", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } ], "research_scope": "Searched exact pathway name,218 and guidance terminology; checked official test-policy entry point (access failed) and official iterative-testing news. Kept those unrelated examples out of the authority chain." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-51", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Contractors have a published extraordinary-relief filing route, but approval is discretionary; FY 2026 separately adds review and timing requirements for hazardous/nuclear indemnification.", "routes": [ { "program": "Extraordinary contractual action request", "administering_office": "Procuring contracting officer; departmental contract adjustment board; appropriate delegated approving official", "audience": "Contractors seeking relief within Public Law 85-804/EO 10789 conditions", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Establish the applicable national-defense basis and requested adjustment; ordinary contract remedies and statutory exclusions remain relevant.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 50 deviation 2026-O0030", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-50.pdf", "locator": "250.102-170; 250.103-3 and -5; PGI 250.103-5", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-204b2c9cfece" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "File with the procuring contracting officer (or authorized forwarding official if impractical); supporting case documentation proceeds through departmental channels to the adjustment board.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 50 deviation 2026-O0030", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-50.pdf", "locator": "250.102-170; 250.103-3 and -5; PGI 250.103-5", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-204b2c9cfece" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "February 2026 deviation specifies written decisions and agency delegations; no particular pending request or favorable outcome verified.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 50 deviation 2026-O0030", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-50.pdf", "locator": "250.102-170; 250.103-3 and -5; PGI 250.103-5", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-204b2c9cfece" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Relief is contract-specific and subject to applicable funding/approval controls; a statutory mechanism is not an entitlement to reimbursement.", "kind": "extraordinary contract adjustment", "period": "case-specific", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 50 deviation 2026-O0030", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-50.pdf", "locator": "250.102-170; 250.103-3 and -5; PGI 250.103-5", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-204b2c9cfece" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "FY2026section876 directs practicableDCMAinsurance-market input and a final decision within90 days for covered hazardous/nuclear indemnification requests; no specific current delegated signature was verified.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA indemnification review change", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section876(a)–(c)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Extraordinary-relief filing procedures", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-50.pdf", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Existing contractor through its contracting officer; not a general rescue-funding application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Part 250 implements extraordinary contractual actions and distinguishes the Act/Executive Order framework from section 3861 R&D indemnity.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 50 deviation 2026-O0030", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-50.pdf", "locator": "250.102-170; 250.103-3 and -5; PGI 250.103-5", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-204b2c9cfece" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current department-specific delegations and implementation of the new90 day review requirement need case-level verification.", "The separately time-limited inflation-only relief authority expiredDecember31, 2025 in the audited law; do not market it as currently open." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DoD RFO Part 50 deviation 2026-O0030", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-50.pdf", "locator": "250.102-170; 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Did not confuse the regulatory$90k delegation level with other statutory reporting thresholds." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-52", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "The current R&D deviation supplies explicit section 3861 contract clauses and risk-definition approvals. This is a negotiated contractual protection, not generic business insurance.", "routes": [ { "program": "Unusually hazardous R&D contract indemnification", "administering_office": "Contracting officer and Secretary-level/designated approving authority under applicable delegation", "audience": "Contractors performing qualifying R&D work", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Risk must arise from direct contract performance, be unusually hazardous as defined in the contract, and meet the uninsured-loss conditions.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO Part 35 deviation 2026-O0014", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-35.pdf", "locator": "235.174; 235.176; 252.235-7000 and -7001", "evidence_type": "official acquisition deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-95edb68a72b8" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Obtain approval of the specific hazard definition and insert the prescribed fixed-price or cost-reimbursement clause; 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A published implementing clause, delegation or demonstrated transaction was not found.", "routes": [ { "program": "Classified work-in-process risk protection — implementation gap", "administering_office": "Secretary of Defense statutory duty; executing contracting authority not verified", "audience": "Contractors with qualifying post-enactment classified fixed-price product contracts", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "A covered contract is classified, fixed-price, for a product and entered afterDecember18, 2025; classification must prevent obtaining insurance or processing a work-in-process claim.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA assumption of uninsurable risk", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section801; new10 U.S.C.3864(a)–(c);120-day regulatory deadline", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The statute required DFARS revision within120 days. A publicly verified current clause and request workflow were not located; resolve implementation with the actual contracting/legal chain.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA assumption of uninsurable risk", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section801; new10 U.S.C.3864(a)–(c);120-day regulatory deadline", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Enacted; implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The 120-day statutory deadline is not evidence that a regulation was issued or that any particular claim was accepted.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA assumption of uninsurable risk", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section801; new10 U.S.C.3864(a)–(c);120-day regulatory deadline", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Risk allocation covers work in process until delivery and government acceptance; no public appropriation or paid-claim amount was verified.", "kind": "statutory contingent-risk protection", "period": "covered contracts entered afterDecember18, 2025", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA assumption of uninsurable risk", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section801; new10 U.S.C.3864(a)–(c);120-day regulatory deadline", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Managerial willful misconduct/lack of good faith and contractor workmanship errors are excluded; the enacted text does not use every exclusion appearing in earlier draft summaries.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA assumption of uninsurable risk", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section801; new10 U.S.C.3864(a)–(c);120-day regulatory deadline", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the enacted3864 protection", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Reference only; no verified application portal, clause or delegated approval process." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Enacted section 801 adds section 3864 and mandates DFARS implementation; this is statutory evidence only.", "source": { "title": "FY2026 NDAA assumption of uninsurable risk", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section801; new10 U.S.C.3864(a)–(c);120-day regulatory deadline", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Implementing DFARS revision, current signature delegation and any public contract/claim example remain unverified; classification may limit public implementation evidence." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "FY2026 NDAA assumption of uninsurable risk", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section801; new10 U.S.C.3864(a)–(c);120-day regulatory deadline", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } ], "research_scope": "Read exact enacted801 text and searched3864, classified uninsurable work-in-process and DFARS implementation. Search results were mostly bills/secondary summaries or unrelated contract numbers; DARS case-status access failed. Did not conflate older3861 indemnity clauses with this new authority." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-54", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Current DoD cost-principle and administration deviations supply the actual IR&D allowability/reporting process, not an R&D grant application.", "routes": [ { "program": "IR&D contract-cost allowability and DTIC reporting", "administering_office": "Cognizant administrative/corporate administrative contracting officer; DCAA; contractor management", "audience": "Contractors allocating IR&D to covered contracts", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Allowability depends on allocability, the governing contract clauses and applicable major-contractor reporting requirements.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO class deviation2026-O0032, Part31", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-31.pdf", "locator": "Effective February 1, 2026; Attachment 231.205-18, PDF pp. 3–4", "evidence_type": "official acquisition class deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-1a4bba2bde20" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Submit required project reporting/updates to DTIC; document CEO determination of relevance to future defense technology/capability needs and separately trackIR&D/B&P.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO class deviation2026-O0032, Part31", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-31.pdf", "locator": "Effective February 1, 2026; Attachment 231.205-18, PDF pp. 3–4", "evidence_type": "official acquisition class deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-1a4bba2bde20" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current deviation process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Part 31 deviation effective February 1, 2026 applies until rescinded/incorporated; contract vintage and applicable clauses matter.", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO class deviation2026-O0032, Part31", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-31.pdf", "locator": "Effective February 1, 2026; Attachment 231.205-18, PDF pp. 3–4", "evidence_type": "official acquisition class deviation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-1a4bba2bde20" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Allowable indirect contract costs, not a separate government research-award pot or reimbursement of every private investment.", "kind": "contract indirect-cost recovery", "period": "applicable contract/cost-accounting period", "source": { "title": "DoD RFO class deviation2026-O0032, Part31", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-31.pdf", "locator": "Effective February 1, 2026; 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This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "Checked current2026 RFO deviations rather than relying solely on old codified DFARS pages; read Part31 and located explicit statutory tie inPart242. Kept funding distinct from standalone innovation programs." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-55", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Identify the actual royalty administrator while keeping internal receipts distinct from external financing.", "routes": [ { "program": "DAF patent royalty administration", "administering_office": "DAF Technology Transfer and Transition program office and responsible laboratory", "audience": "Federal inventors, laboratories and royalty administrators; not outside grant applicants", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The DAF program office expressly oversees and issues patent royalty disbursements. 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Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "ACQ-56", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "BOOST is enacted and assigned to DIU, but a published BOOST-specific operating guide, intake and executed project were not located. DIU Bridge listings do not establish BOOST implementation.", "routes": [ { "program": "Bridging Operational Objectives and Support for Transition (BOOST) — statutory program", "administering_office": "DIU Director (statutory lead); implementing assignment and operating process not publicly verified", "audience": "Portfolio acquisition executives, program managers and product support managers requesting help integrating commercial technology", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The enacted requestor categories are government acquisition/support officials; § 1833 does not create an unrestricted vendor application.", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-60 — BOOST", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section 1833(a)–(f), 139 Stat. 1253–1254; enacted text also checked against local official-law capture", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The law calls for requests to DIU, assessment of viable technology and, when requested, coordinated development/experimentation/integration. 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Searches of DIU and primary program materials did not locate the issued guidance or a BOOST-specific intake in this pass.", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-60 — BOOST", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section 1833(a)–(f), 139 Stat. 1253–1254; enacted text also checked against local official-law capture", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "DIU appropriations may support BOOST subject to availability; no separate live budget or award pool was verified.", "kind": "Authority to use available DIU appropriations", "period": "P.L.119-60 § 1833(d); sunset 31 December 2030", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-60 — BOOST", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section 1833(a)–(f), 139 Stat. 1253–1254; enacted text also checked against local official-law capture", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The statutory guidance deadline is not proof of issuance; the authorities expire on 31 December 2030 unless changed.", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-60 — BOOST", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section 1833(a)–(f), 139 Stat. 1253–1254; enacted text also checked against local official-law capture", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DIU government-partner inquiry", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/dod-entities", "type": "institutional inquiry only", "scope": "A public way for a government sponsor to ask DIU about routing; not a verified BOOST application channel." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Section 1833 creates BOOST and names its coordination partners; it is a statutory note, not evidence of an already operating public competition.", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-60 — BOOST", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section 1833(a)–(f), 139 Stat. 1253–1254; enacted text also checked against local official-law capture", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } }, "relationship_type": "unverified" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Issued § 1833(b) guidance, designated intake, request template, termination criteria, current program appropriation and an implemented BOOST project remain unverified after targeted primary-source searches." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "Public Law 119-60 — BOOST", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section 1833(a)–(f), 139 Stat. 1253–1254; enacted text also checked against local official-law capture", "result": "Enacted official-law text checked against existing official-law capture", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "DIU Work With Us — DoD Entities", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/dod-entities", "locator": "Our Process, steps 1–4; government partner liaison and prototype funding", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fc8bb79d76ab" }, { "title": "DIU Open Pathways", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us/open-solicitations", "locator": "Pathways through Commercial Solutions Openings (CSO): 0 openings, observed 4 October 2026", "result": "Primary source reviewed", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-30f4e87b5bf0" }, { "title": "Targeted DIU primary-source discovery", "url": "https://www.diu.mil/", "locator": "Searches for BOOST, full program name and section 1833 on 4 October 2026", "result": "No BOOST-specific implementation material located; absence in this bounded search is not proof no internal implementation exists", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-7a27d33934a9" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "FIN-01", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "The Economy Act has a concrete interagency ordering workflow. Treasury G-Invoicing handles agreement, order and performance data; it is not authority to bypass acquisition law.", "routes": [ { "program": "Economy Act orders and G-Invoicing", "administering_office": "Requesting and servicing federal agencies; agency finance/acquisition officials; Treasury manages the settlement platform", "audience": "Federal buying and selling organizations, not companies seeking a direct grant", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Document available funds, government best interest, servicing capability and the required commercial-source determination.", "source": { "title": "31 U.S.C. § 1535", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1535&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "31 U.S.C. § 1535", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-42a15e659a49" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Agree the 7600A general terms and a 7600B funded order with definite work and purpose certification.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 11A, chapter 3", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/Volume_11a.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 3 (June 2025), §§ 5.3–6.2, printed p.3-8", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Relevant chapter text retrieved through the official indexed aggregate PDF; standalone chapter request was blocked.", "source_id": "src-293c3d170a3b" } }, { "text": "Coordinate with the agency G-Invoicing lead and trading partner; establish accounts and record agreed order/performance data. Current forms and training resources are in Treasury Intralinks.", "source": { "title": "Treasury G-Invoicing enrollment", "url": "https://fiscal.treasury.gov/accounting/g-invoicing/enrolling-in-g-invoicing", "locator": "Getting started; agency onboarding; costs", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b02eaa0e5623" } }, { "text": "Use Treasury’s current resources and implementation guide; publicly linked forms access has moved to Intralinks.", "source": { "title": "Treasury G-Invoicing resources", "url": "https://fiscal.treasury.gov/accounting/g-invoicing/resources", "locator": "Agency Implementation Guide; IAA forms and instructions", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2a49da66a37c" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Treasury charges no G-Invoicing usage fee, but agency ERP changes can cost money.", "source": { "title": "Treasury G-Invoicing enrollment", "url": "https://fiscal.treasury.gov/accounting/g-invoicing/enrolling-in-g-invoicing", "locator": "Getting started; agency onboarding; costs", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b02eaa0e5623" }, "kind": "Administrative platform costs", "period": "Current enrollment guidance" }, { "text": "Reimbursement is adjusted to actual cost. Unperformed or uncontracted portions remain subject to § 1535(d), not a funds-parking exemption.", "source": { "title": "31 U.S.C. § 1535", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1535&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "31 U.S.C. § 1535", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-42a15e659a49" }, "kind": "Cost reimbursement", "period": "Statutory conditions; no available balance established" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The agreement and platform do not extend the original appropriation’s purpose or period.", "source": { "title": "31 U.S.C. § 1535", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1535&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "31 U.S.C. § 1535", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-42a15e659a49" } } ], "status": { "label": "Government ordering process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Published DoD instructions distinguish a general agreement from the discrete funded order. 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It is historical guidance, not evidence of a new current rate.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 11A, chapter 1 — July 2020 archive", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/archive/11aarch/11a_01_Jul20.pdf", "locator": "General reimbursement policy and authority limitations", "evidence_type": "historical official guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed historical text read; direct HTTP retrieval returned404 in the later access check. This does not certify current chapter1.", "source_id": "src-62035c8b1419" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published fiscal process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The November 2024 rates chapter cites § 2205 and describes coordinated review and publication of reimbursable rates.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 11A, chapter 6", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/current/11a/11a_06.pdf", "locator": "November 2024, § 1.3.2 and annual review of reimbursable rates", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed chapter text read; direct document access may be restricted.", "source_id": "src-dd79d68e9a81" } }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The rates chapter expressly includes § 2205; it does not authorize a new category of commercial sales.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 11A, chapter 6", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/current/11a/11a_06.pdf", "locator": "November 2024, § 1.3.2 and annual review of reimbursable rates", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed chapter text read; direct document access may be restricted.", "source_id": "src-dd79d68e9a81" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Read the governing source", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/current/11a/11a_06.pdf", "type": "reference, not an application portal", "scope": "This source does not accept funding applications." } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No transaction-specific rate, Treasury account or private-customer eligibility is established here." ], "research_scope": "Reviewed the rates chapter and underlying statute; compared archived general policy. Current standalone chapter 1 was inaccessible, so no unseen revision is certified.", "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2205", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2205&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2205", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c64903043819" }, { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 11A, chapter 6", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/current/11a/11a_06.pdf", "locator": "November 2024, § 1.3.2 and annual review of reimbursable rates", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed chapter text read; direct document access may be restricted. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 404 on October 4, 2026. 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Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 502 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications.", "source_id": "src-faa2c590c8f8" }, { "title": "Department of the Navy FY1999 financial statements", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/cfs/fy1999/22_navgf99part3.pdf", "locator": "Management Fund closure discussion, printed p.77", "evidence_type": "historical financial statement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-933439940eb2" } ] }, { "record_id": "FIN-04", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Reprogramming is visible in account-level execution records. A proposal, an enacted ceiling, an approved transfer and an obligated expenditure represent different stages of fiscal action.", "routes": [ { "program": "Annual transfer and reprogramming documentation", "administering_office": "Component comptroller and OUSD(Comptroller); applicable congressional procedures", "audience": "Government budget sponsors", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Match source, destination, amount and fiscal-year authority; comply with denied-item and higher-priority conditions.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2214", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2214&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2214", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-7a11283140b0" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Use the applicable DD1414 base and action-specific reprogramming record; verify whether a request was approved and implemented.", "source": { "title": "Comptroller FY2026 DD1414 reprogramming base", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Budget-Execution/DD1414_Base_for_Reprogramming_Actions/", "locator": "FY2026 base, updated August 7, 2026", "evidence_type": "official budget execution record", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-84b28417e305" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "FY2026 § 8005 has a $6 billion ceiling, not a statement of unused funds; FY2027 continuing-resolution treatment requires a separate review.", "source": { "title": "P.L. 119-75, division A, § 8005", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm", "locator": "P.L. 119-75, division A, § 8005", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e1509f38750f" }, "kind": "Annual statutory ceiling", "period": "FY2026; not certified FY2027 headroom" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "A transferred amount must retain the governing purpose and availability limits unless law provides otherwise.", "source": { "title": "31 U.S.C. § 1532", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1532&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "31 U.S.C. § 1532", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-47c34bcad574" } } ], "status": { "label": "FY 2026 base published", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The official index posts the FY 2026 DD 1414 base updated August 7, 2026. 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The statutory ceiling cannot establish current headroom." ], "research_scope": "Read the current DD1414 index, dated GAO transfer analysis and preserved annual-law citations; distinguished proposals and execution from budget authority.", "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2214", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2214&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2214", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-7a11283140b0" }, { "title": "Comptroller FY2026 DD1414 reprogramming base", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Budget-Execution/DD1414_Base_for_Reprogramming_Actions/", "locator": "FY2026 base, updated August 7, 2026", "evidence_type": "official budget execution record", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-84b28417e305" }, { "title": "P.L. 119-75, division A, § 8005", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm", "locator": "P.L. 119-75, division A, § 8005", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e1509f38750f" }, { "title": "31 U.S.C. § 1532", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1532&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "31 U.S.C. § 1532", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-47c34bcad574" }, { "title": "GAO-26-108437 — Southern Border Security", "url": "https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-108437/index.html", "locator": "Funding strategies; transfers and fiscal-year distinctions", "evidence_type": "official oversight report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-13", "source_id": "src-4e5bd9b339d9" } ] }, { "record_id": "FIN-05", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "CCIF has an identified Joint Staff J7 administrator. 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Agency must possess an applicable statutory authorization.", "source": { "title": "OPM Expert and Consultant Pay", "url": "https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-administration/fact-sheets/expert-and-consultant-pay/", "locator": "Appointment basis; limits; pay; contract exclusion", "evidence_type": "official personnel guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9eb67111dbc8" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Document the appointment basis, schedule and pay; any unpaid-service waiver must be agreed in writing before service.", "source": { "title": "OPM Expert and Consultant Pay", "url": "https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-administration/fact-sheets/expert-and-consultant-pay/", "locator": "Appointment basis; limits; pay; contract exclusion", "evidence_type": "official personnel guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9eb67111dbc8" } }, { "text": "Agency reports paid3109 appointees onOPM1623; contract services and other hiring authorities are excluded.", "source": { "title": "OPM1623 instructions", "url": "https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdfimage/opm1623.pdf", "locator": "Annual reporting requirements and exclusions", "evidence_type": "official personnel reporting form", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a2ed1ae7bf8b" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published HR process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "OPM guidance and reporting form are available; no specific DoD vacancy or appointment verified.", "source": { "title": "OPM Expert and Consultant Pay", "url": "https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-administration/fact-sheets/expert-and-consultant-pay/", "locator": "Appointment basis; limits; pay; contract exclusion", "evidence_type": "official personnel guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9eb67111dbc8" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Pay is subject to3109/304 and applicable agency-specific exceptions; no independent expert-services fund.", "kind": "personnel compensation", "period": "appointment-specific", "source": { "title": "OPM Expert and Consultant Pay", "url": "https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-administration/fact-sheets/expert-and-consultant-pay/", "locator": "Appointment basis; limits; pay; contract exclusion", "evidence_type": "official personnel guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9eb67111dbc8" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Do not apply this HR guidance as a blanket personal-services procurement exemption.", "source": { "title": "OPM Expert and Consultant Pay", "url": "https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-administration/fact-sheets/expert-and-consultant-pay/", "locator": "Appointment basis; limits; pay; contract exclusion", "evidence_type": "official personnel guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9eb67111dbc8" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "OPM expert/consultant appointment guidance", "url": "https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-administration/fact-sheets/expert-and-consultant-pay/", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "HR process for sponsoring organizations; not an open consulting contract opportunity." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The fact sheet expressly applies 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 5 CFR 304; procurement contracts and other appointment authorities are outside its scope.", "source": { "title": "OPM Expert and Consultant Pay", "url": "https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-administration/fact-sheets/expert-and-consultant-pay/", "locator": "Appointment basis; limits; pay; contract exclusion", "evidence_type": "official personnel guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9eb67111dbc8" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "DoD129b-specific current delegation, request workflow and any separate contract authority require component verification." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "OPM Expert and Consultant Pay", "url": "https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/pay-administration/fact-sheets/expert-and-consultant-pay/", "locator": "Appointment basis; limits; pay; contract exclusion", "evidence_type": "official personnel guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9eb67111dbc8" }, { "title": "OPM1623 instructions", "url": "https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdfimage/opm1623.pdf", "locator": "Annual reporting requirements and exclusions", "evidence_type": "official personnel reporting form", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a2ed1ae7bf8b" } ], "research_scope": "Read OPM current fact sheet and reporting instructions; distinguished statutory appointment, unpaid service and procurement contracts instead of collapsing them into one engagement route." }, { "record_id": "FIN-11", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Agency organization is an internal governance instrument. Published directives explain chartering and supervision, but creating a component does not create new economic powers.", "routes": [ { "program": "Defense Agency / Field Activity chartering", "administering_office": "Secretary or Deputy Secretary; designated OSD principal staff assistant and organizational management officials", "audience": "Government organizational sponsors", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Demonstrate a common activity and the statutory effectiveness, economy or efficiency rationale.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 191", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section191&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 191", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-080f3a570784" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Identify the agency charter, supervising official and applicable review obligations rather than treating the general title as an acquisition delegation.", "source": { "title": "DoDD 5100.01 — Functions of major components", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/510001p.pdf", "locator": "Enclosures 7–8; change 1 dated September 17, 2020", "evidence_type": "official organizational directive", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2020-09-17", "retrieval_note": "Relevant official indexed directive passages and issuance metadata read; current transaction delegation not established.", "source_id": "src-67401e2219d1" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "The organization still needs legally available component budgets and lawful resource transfers.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 191", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section191&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 191", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-080f3a570784" }, "kind": "Organizational authority; no new appropriation", "period": "Statutory conditions; no available balance established" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "An agency charter cannot substitute for the substantive law authorizing a particular transaction.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 191", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section191&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 191", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-080f3a570784" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published chartering framework", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "DoDD 5100.01 explains common-function designation, supervising officials and agency-specific charter directives.", "source": { "title": "DoDD 5100.01 — Functions of major components", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/510001p.pdf", "locator": "Enclosures 7–8; change 1 dated September 17, 2020", "evidence_type": "official organizational directive", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2020-09-17", "retrieval_note": "Relevant official indexed directive passages and issuance metadata read; current transaction delegation not established.", "source_id": "src-67401e2219d1" } }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The directive expressly relates Defense Agencies to §§ 191–192; § 193 adds combat-support review requirements.", "source": { "title": "DoDD 5100.01 — Functions of major components", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/510001p.pdf", "locator": "Enclosures 7–8; change 1 dated September 17, 2020", "evidence_type": "official organizational directive", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2020-09-17", "retrieval_note": "Relevant official indexed directive passages and issuance metadata read; current transaction delegation not established.", "source_id": "src-67401e2219d1" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Read the governing source", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/510001p.pdf", "type": "reference, not an application portal", "scope": "This source does not accept funding applications." } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Any proposed new agency or consolidation requires its own decision record, charter, notifications and fiscal treatment." ], "research_scope": "Compared current-code §§ 191–193 with the published major-components directive; no organizational proposal or new award channel was inferred.", "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 191", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section191&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 191", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-080f3a570784" }, { "title": "DoDD 5100.01 — Functions of major components", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/510001p.pdf", "locator": "Enclosures 7–8; change 1 dated September 17, 2020", "evidence_type": "official organizational directive", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2020-09-17", "retrieval_note": "Relevant official indexed directive passages and issuance metadata read; current transaction delegation not established.", "source_id": "src-67401e2219d1" } ] }, { "record_id": "IND-01", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "DPAS is a working rating/assistance system with BIS-999, an identified DoD Title I office and a recent § 4511 mineral determination.", "routes": [ { "program": "Defense Priorities and Allocations System / Special Priorities Assistance", "administering_office": "Commerce BIS/SIES administers industrial-resource DPAS; DoD DPA Title I Office guides defense sponsors and contracting officials.", "audience": "Defense-order suppliers, program offices and other eligible national-defense users.", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Requests require a qualifying national-defense program; case-by-case authorization may cover companies/critical-infrastructure operators, with a determination by Defense, Homeland Security or Energy.", "source": { "title": "BIS Defense Priorities and Allocations System", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/defense-priorities-allocations-system-program-dpas", "locator": "Program overview; Special Priorities Assistance; Form BIS-999; 2024 final rule", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ea9596d9341f" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Identify the affected order and delivery obstacle; use Form BIS-999 and its instructions for Special Priorities Assistance through the relevant delegate agency.", "source": { "title": "BIS Defense Priorities and Allocations System", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/defense-priorities-allocations-system-program-dpas", "locator": "Program overview; 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Special Priorities Assistance; Form BIS-999; 2024 final rule", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ea9596d9341f" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Ratings prioritize performance; the program page does not provide a funding award or investment balance. Underlying purchases still require their own contract funding.", "source": { "title": "BIS Defense Priorities and Allocations System", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/defense-priorities-allocations-system-program-dpas", "locator": "Program overview; Special Priorities Assistance; Form BIS-999; 2024 final rule", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ea9596d9341f" }, "kind": "ordering priority, not financial assistance", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Employment contracts are excluded; Commerce industrial jurisdiction is distinct from other resource-agency allocation systems.", "source": { "title": "BIS Defense Priorities and Allocations System", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/defense-priorities-allocations-system-program-dpas", "locator": "Program overview; Special Priorities Assistance; Form BIS-999; 2024 final rule", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ea9596d9341f" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DPAS guidance and BIS-999", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/defense-priorities-allocations-system-program-dpas", "type": "priority assistance process", "scope": "Not a production grant; use sponsor/delegate-agency channels and current instructions." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "BIS explicitly links DPAS, 15 CFR 700 and EO 13603 to DPA Title I; this is not Title III financing.", "source": { "title": "BIS Defense Priorities and Allocations System", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/defense-priorities-allocations-system-program-dpas", "locator": "Program overview; Special Priorities Assistance; Form BIS-999; 2024 final rule", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ea9596d9341f" } } }, { "program": "2026 recoverable-minerals presidential determination", "administering_office": "Secretary of Commerce, under EO 13603 delegation.", "audience": "Industrial-resource owners/users affected by implementing measures, not loan applicants.", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Covered recoverables include black mass, end-of-life magnets, swarf and mineral-bearing waste/scrap; copper scrap is excluded from this determination.", "source": { "title": "Presidential determination on recoverable critical minerals/materials", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/07/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-101-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-recoverable-critical-minerals-and-materials/", "locator": "§ 2", "evidence_type": "presidential determination", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-30", "source_id": "src-cc0468fa5d46" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Commerce is directed to implement the determination through appropriate § 101 actions, including rules/guidance; a particular implementing allocation order must be checked separately.", "source": { "title": "Presidential determination on recoverable critical minerals/materials", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/07/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-101-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-recoverable-critical-minerals-and-materials/", "locator": "§ 3(b)", "evidence_type": "presidential determination", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-30", "source_id": "src-cc0468fa5d46" } } ], "status": { "label": "Determination issued", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "July 30, 2026 determination makes scarcity/defense and civilian-dislocation findings.", "source": { "title": "Presidential determination on recoverable critical minerals/materials", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/07/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-101-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-recoverable-critical-minerals-and-materials/", "locator": "Sections2–3", "evidence_type": "presidential determination", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-30", "source_id": "src-cc0468fa5d46" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The determination supplies no appropriation or loan award.", "source": { "title": "Presidential determination on recoverable critical minerals/materials", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/07/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-101-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-recoverable-critical-minerals-and-materials/", "locator": "Sections2–3", "evidence_type": "presidential determination", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-30", "source_id": "src-cc0468fa5d46" }, "kind": "nonfinancial statutory finding", "period": "July 30, 2026" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The determination itself is not a blanket export prohibition or a specific private-party purchase commitment.", "source": { "title": "Presidential determination on recoverable critical minerals/materials", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/07/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-101-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-recoverable-critical-minerals-and-materials/", "locator": "§ 3; scope inference", "evidence_type": "presidential determination", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-30", "source_id": "src-cc0468fa5d46" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the determination", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/07/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-101-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-recoverable-critical-minerals-and-materials/", "type": "presidential determination", "scope": "Findings and implementation direction; not a specific firm allocation order." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The determination expressly invokes 50 USC 4511 and EO 13603.", "source": { "title": "Presidential determination on recoverable critical minerals/materials", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/07/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-101-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-recoverable-critical-minerals-and-materials/", "locator": "§ 3", "evidence_type": "presidential determination", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-30", "source_id": "src-cc0468fa5d46" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Any claimed transaction-specific allocation, rating entitlement or July 2026 follow-on rule requires its own document." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "BIS Defense Priorities and Allocations System", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/defense-priorities-allocations-system-program-dpas", "locator": "Program overview; Special Priorities Assistance; Form BIS-999; 2024 final rule", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ea9596d9341f" }, { "title": "DoD Industrial Base Policy — DPA Title I Office", "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/ipa/dpa-title-1.html", "locator": "What We Do; DPAS guidance; DO/DX and BIS-999 resources", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed content read; direct browser request timed out. Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications.", "source_id": "src-55053cacae5c" }, { "title": "Presidential determination on recoverable critical minerals/materials", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/07/presidential-determination-pursuant-to-section-101-of-the-defense-production-act-of-1950-as-amended-on-recoverable-critical-minerals-and-materials/", "locator": "Sections2–3", "evidence_type": "presidential determination", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-30", "source_id": "src-cc0468fa5d46" } ], "research_scope": "Read current record; searched BIS DPAS/special-priorities guidance, DoD Title I page and2026 WhiteHouse § 101 determinations." }, { "record_id": "IND-02", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "A closed 2026 mineral call contemplated DPA guarantees. Separately, EO 14241 delegates mineral-specific DPA powers to DFC; an operating guarantee intake or completed guarantee under that delegation was not verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "DIBC critical-minerals RPP-CM-26-02 (closed call)", "administering_office": "IBP/WIRE program; Washington Headquarters Services Acquisition Directorate (WHS/AD) administers the DIBC agreement with ATI; project-specific current assignment must be verified.", "audience": "DIBC members with domestic critical-mineral projects; this call covered indium, magnesium, manganese and titanium.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "At least one named mineral and one area of interest; DPA proposals must establish defense essentiality, industry-capacity shortfall and cost-effectiveness.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp2–4, §§ 1.1.2.1.2 and 2.0", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Active SAM registration and a favorable responsibility determination are required; suspended/debarred firms are excluded.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp11–12, §§ 7.1–7.2", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "The call describes guarantees where reasonable commercial credit is unavailable and earning power/security support reasonable repayment assurance.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, final bullet of § 6.1", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Closed-call procedure: submit the mandatory quad chart through ATI AMP; only invited applicants proceed to an execution plan, price package and environmental-assessment questionnaire.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp5–7, § 3", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Only an Agreements Officer can bind the government; instrument and terms are negotiated, not selected unilaterally by an applicant.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 5.4", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "status": { "label": "Closed — historical process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Deadline was September 17, 2026 at noon Eastern; this call is no longer an open intake.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p1, RPP Closes", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Section 6 expressly identifies DPA § 4531 loan guarantees among potential tools.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, "kind": "potential instrument, not award or balance", "period": "RPP released August 21, 2026" }, { "text": "FY26 DPA Purchases provides $321.923 million no-year across cited DPA authorities; this is not a credit-principal ceiling or currently available loan-guarantee balance.", "source": { "title": "Consolidated Appropriations Act 2026, Public Law 119-75", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm", "locator": "Division A, title III, Defense Production Act Purchases", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-e1509f38750f" }, "kind": "appropriation, account-level", "period": "FY2026; until expended" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Section 6 lists possible financial instruments; it does not establish that one was funded, delegated, or awarded. The primary contemplated project route is a research or prototype OT.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p3 § 1.3 and p11 § 6.1", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "The executive-agent registry still names Air Force, A&S as staff assistant and AFRL/RXME as OPR; the page has a malformed update date. Preserve current assignment must be verified.", "source": { "title": "Executive Agent registry — Defense Production Act Title III", "url": "https://dod-executiveagent.osd.mil/Agents/AgentPrint.aspx?agentId=20", "locator": "Executive Agent; Principal Staff Assistant; OPR; Last Updated", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "primary source", "source_id": "src-34938cf41a3c" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the closed mineral call", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "type": "closed solicitation", "scope": "Reference process only; not an open application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Express § 4531 linkage is documented, but an actual guarantee award or current loan-guarantee intake was not verified.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1; p3, § 1.3", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" }, { "program": "DFC domestic-mineral DPA delegation under EO 14241", "administering_office": "DFC CEO as delegated official, consulting DoD, Interior, Energy and NEDC; operating intake office not verified.", "audience": "Domestic mineral-production projects within the order’s scope; this is not an application invitation.", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Delegated lending is limited to domestic mineral production; the order includes mining, processing, refining, smelting and covered downstream products.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Sections 2 and 6(d)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The order directs implementing rules and a proposed mineral-fund plan; it does not publish applicant submission steps.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(d)–(e), DFC delegation and conditional mineral-fund plan; section 7(b)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } } ], "status": { "label": "Delegation documented; current intake not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "A 2025 mineral-specific delegation is separate from the historical pandemic program. An approved fund plan or dedicated current intake was not verified.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(d)–(e), DFC delegation and conditional mineral-fund plan; section 7(b)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The order contemplates reimbursement from appropriated DPA Fund or OSC resources; no dollar allocation or borrower-ready balance is established here.", "kind": "conditional interagency reimbursement, not an award", "period": "2025 order; checked 2026-10-04", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(e)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Credit-reform and OMB requirements remain; the proposed fund needs specified approvals and appropriations.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(d)–(e), DFC delegation and conditional mineral-fund plan; section 7(b)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } }, { "text": "The April amendment includes coal and corrects the section 4532 citation; it is not a new application portal.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14261 — Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/reinvigorating-americas-beautiful-clean-coal-industry-and-amending-executive-order-14241/", "locator": "Section 3: coal inclusion and correction of 4332(d)(1)(B) to 4532(d)(1)(B)", "evidence_type": "executive order amendment", "published_on": "2025-04-08", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-003660805233" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read mineral-specific DFC delegation", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "type": "legal delegation reference", "scope": "No open application or funded product is inferred from this order." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Section 6(d) expressly delegates 50 USC 4531–4533. This verifies a delegation, not an executed loan or guarantee.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(d)–(e), DFC delegation and conditional mineral-fund plan; section 7(b)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current guarantee application, underwriting office, credit subsidy/principal authority and executed guarantee example remain unverified.", "DIBC project-OT administration is not proof WHS/AD has authority to sign a DPA guarantee.", "For the separate 2025 mineral delegation: approved fund plan, implementing intake rules, specific allocation, current submission endpoint and executed section-specific transaction remain unverified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp1–12; released August 21, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, { "title": "DIBC solicitations", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/solicitations-2/", "locator": "Active Solicitations; Upcoming Solicitations; Recent Past Solicitations; updated September 17, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04" }, "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-ce3c94435f8f" }, { "title": "Executive Agent registry — Defense Production Act Title III", "url": "https://dod-executiveagent.osd.mil/Agents/AgentPrint.aspx?agentId=20", "locator": "Executive Agent; Principal Staff Assistant; OPR; Last Updated", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "primary source", "source_id": "src-34938cf41a3c" }, { "title": "WIRE — Industrial Base Policy", "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire.html", "locator": "What We Do; focus areas", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "primary source", "source_id": "src-370204e35103", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "Consolidated Appropriations Act 2026, Public Law 119-75", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm", "locator": "Division A, title III, Defense Production Act Purchases", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-e1509f38750f" }, { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(d)–(e), DFC delegation and conditional mineral-fund plan; section 7(b)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" }, { "title": "Executive Order 14261 — Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/reinvigorating-americas-beautiful-clean-coal-industry-and-amending-executive-order-14241/", "locator": "Section 3: coal inclusion and correction of 4332(d)(1)(B) to 4532(d)(1)(B)", "evidence_type": "executive order amendment", "published_on": "2025-04-08", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-003660805233" } ], "research_scope": "Retained the previously checked Resilience and DIBC evidence. Read EO 14241 section 6 and EO 14261 section 3; searched official DFC domestic-mineral and DPA fund terms. Ukraine reconstruction-fund results were not treated as domestic DPA implementation." }, { "record_id": "IND-03", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "A $410 million Resilience loan executed in 2023 documents historical DPA lending. Its pandemic sourcing closure does not negate the separate 2025 DFC mineral delegation; the latter’s current intake was not verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "DFC/DoD DPA Loan Program — executed historical loan", "administering_office": "DFC working with DoD under delegated pandemic emergency authority.", "audience": "Historical domestic biomanufacturing recipient; not a current applicant class.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The documented project expanded U.S. capacity for biologics, vaccines and nucleic acids in response to pandemic emergency needs.", "source": { "title": "DFC executes loan under the Defense Production Act Loan Program", "url": "https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/us-international-development-finance-corporation-executes-loan-under-defense", "locator": "March 24, 2023 release, opening and project paragraphs", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "source_id": "src-1668ec2a3ea6" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "DFC reports a March 2022 commitment followed by execution on March 24, 2023; the release is evidence of closing, not application instructions.", "source": { "title": "DFC executes loan under the Defense Production Act Loan Program", "url": "https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/us-international-development-finance-corporation-executes-loan-under-defense", "locator": "March 24, 2023; opening paragraph and paragraph beginning In response to the national emergency", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "source_id": "src-1668ec2a3ea6" } } ], "status": { "label": "Executed historical pandemic loan; that sourcing role ended", "as_of": "2023-03-24", "text": "DFC states its pandemic-response project-sourcing role ended with the March 2022 Resilience commitment. This does not establish that the separate 2025 mineral delegation ended.", "source": { "title": "DFC executes loan under the Defense Production Act Loan Program", "url": "https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/us-international-development-finance-corporation-executes-loan-under-defense", "locator": "March 24, 2023; opening paragraph and paragraph beginning In response to the national emergency", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "source_id": "src-1668ec2a3ea6" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "$410 million loan executed to National Resilience; transaction amount, not a current unallocated program balance.", "source": { "title": "DFC executes loan under the Defense Production Act Loan Program", "url": "https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/us-international-development-finance-corporation-executes-loan-under-defense", "locator": "March 24, 2023; opening paragraph and paragraph beginning In response to the national emergency", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "source_id": "src-1668ec2a3ea6" }, "kind": "executed direct loan", "period": "March 24, 2023" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "DFC’s general overseas-development application route must not be presented as an active domestic DPA program.", "source": { "title": "DFC executes loan under the Defense Production Act Loan Program", "url": "https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/us-international-development-finance-corporation-executes-loan-under-defense", "locator": "Final two substantive paragraphs; inference from explicit end of DPA sourcing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "source_id": "src-1668ec2a3ea6" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read executed DPA loan evidence", "url": "https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/us-international-development-finance-corporation-executes-loan-under-defense", "type": "historical award evidence", "scope": "Not a DFC DPA application portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DFC explicitly identifies the executed transaction as a Defense Production Act Loan Program loan; the release does not specify § 4532 by number.", "source": { "title": "DFC executes loan under the Defense Production Act Loan Program", "url": "https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/us-international-development-finance-corporation-executes-loan-under-defense", "locator": "March 24, 2023; opening paragraph and paragraph beginning In response to the national emergency", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "source_id": "src-1668ec2a3ea6" } }, "relationship_type": "documented use" }, { "program": "DIBC critical-minerals RPP-CM-26-02 (closed call)", "administering_office": "IBP/WIRE program; Washington Headquarters Services Acquisition Directorate (WHS/AD) administers the DIBC agreement with ATI; project-specific current assignment must be verified.", "audience": "DIBC members with domestic critical-mineral projects; this call covered indium, magnesium, manganese and titanium.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "At least one named mineral and one area of interest; DPA proposals must establish defense essentiality, industry-capacity shortfall and cost-effectiveness.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp2–4, §§ 1.1.2.1.2 and 2.0", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Active SAM registration and a favorable responsibility determination are required; suspended/debarred firms are excluded.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp11–12, §§ 7.1–7.2", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "The call frames loans for financing beyond commercial-market risk where projected earnings can cover repayment.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1 Loans bullet", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Closed-call procedure: submit the mandatory quad chart through ATI AMP; only invited applicants proceed to an execution plan, price package and environmental-assessment questionnaire.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp5–7, § 3", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Only an Agreements Officer can bind the government; instrument and terms are negotiated, not selected unilaterally by an applicant.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 5.4", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "status": { "label": "Closed — historical process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Deadline was September 17, 2026 at noon Eastern; this call is no longer an open intake.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p1, RPP Closes", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Section 6 identifies DPA § 4532 loans as a potential instrument.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, "kind": "potential instrument, not award or balance", "period": "RPP released August 21, 2026" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Section 6 lists possible financial instruments; it does not establish that one was funded, delegated, or awarded. The primary contemplated project route is a research or prototype OT.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p3 § 1.3 and p11 § 6.1", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the closed mineral call", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "type": "closed solicitation", "scope": "Reference process only; not an open application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The call explicitly cites § 4532; this is a contemplated option, not evidence of an operating 2026 direct-loan intake.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1; p3, § 1.3", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" }, { "program": "DFC domestic-mineral DPA delegation under EO 14241", "administering_office": "DFC CEO as delegated official, consulting DoD, Interior, Energy and NEDC; operating intake office not verified.", "audience": "Domestic mineral-production projects within the order’s scope; this is not an application invitation.", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Delegated lending is limited to domestic mineral production; the order includes mining, processing, refining, smelting and covered downstream products.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Sections 2 and 6(d)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The order directs implementing rules and a proposed mineral-fund plan; it does not publish applicant submission steps.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(d)–(e), DFC delegation and conditional mineral-fund plan; section 7(b)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } } ], "status": { "label": "Delegation documented; current intake not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "A 2025 mineral-specific delegation is separate from the historical pandemic program. An approved fund plan or dedicated current intake was not verified.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(d)–(e), DFC delegation and conditional mineral-fund plan; section 7(b)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The order contemplates reimbursement from appropriated DPA Fund or OSC resources; no dollar allocation or borrower-ready balance is established here.", "kind": "conditional interagency reimbursement, not an award", "period": "2025 order; checked 2026-10-04", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(e)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Credit-reform and OMB requirements remain; the proposed fund needs specified approvals and appropriations.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(d)–(e), DFC delegation and conditional mineral-fund plan; section 7(b)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } }, { "text": "The April amendment includes coal and corrects the section 4532 citation; it is not a new application portal.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14261 — Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/reinvigorating-americas-beautiful-clean-coal-industry-and-amending-executive-order-14241/", "locator": "Section 3: coal inclusion and correction of 4332(d)(1)(B) to 4532(d)(1)(B)", "evidence_type": "executive order amendment", "published_on": "2025-04-08", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-003660805233" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read mineral-specific DFC delegation", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "type": "legal delegation reference", "scope": "No open application or funded product is inferred from this order." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Section 6(d) expressly delegates 50 USC 4531–4533. This verifies a delegation, not an executed loan or guarantee.", "source": { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(d)–(e), DFC delegation and conditional mineral-fund plan; section 7(b)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Do not imply the historical DFC route accepts new DPA projects.", "Current DoD direct-loan underwriting/intake, applicable emergency findings, credit subsidy and principal authority remain transaction-specific and unverified.", "For the separate 2025 mineral delegation: approved fund plan, implementing intake rules, specific allocation, current submission endpoint and executed section-specific transaction remain unverified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DFC executes loan under the Defense Production Act Loan Program", "url": "https://www.dfc.gov/media/press-releases/us-international-development-finance-corporation-executes-loan-under-defense", "locator": "March 24, 2023; opening paragraph and paragraph beginning In response to the national emergency", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04" }, "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "source_id": "src-1668ec2a3ea6" }, { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp1–12; released August 21, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, { "title": "DIBC solicitations", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/solicitations-2/", "locator": "Active Solicitations; Upcoming Solicitations; Recent Past Solicitations; updated September 17, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04" }, "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "government solicitation via administering consortium", "source_id": "src-ce3c94435f8f" }, { "title": "Executive Agent registry — Defense Production Act Title III", "url": "https://dod-executiveagent.osd.mil/Agents/AgentPrint.aspx?agentId=20", "locator": "Executive Agent; Principal Staff Assistant; OPR; Last Updated", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "primary source", "source_id": "src-34938cf41a3c" }, { "title": "WIRE — Industrial Base Policy", "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire.html", "locator": "What We Do; focus areas", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "primary source", "source_id": "src-370204e35103", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "Consolidated Appropriations Act 2026, Public Law 119-75", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm", "locator": "Division A, title III, Defense Production Act Purchases", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-e1509f38750f" }, { "title": "Executive Order 14241 — Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-measures-to-increase-american-mineral-production/", "locator": "Section 6(d)–(e), DFC delegation and conditional mineral-fund plan; section 7(b)", "evidence_type": "executive order", "published_on": "2025-03-20", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-caaa7c419a66" }, { "title": "Executive Order 14261 — Reinvigorating America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry and Amending Executive Order 14241", "url": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/reinvigorating-americas-beautiful-clean-coal-industry-and-amending-executive-order-14241/", "locator": "Section 3: coal inclusion and correction of 4332(d)(1)(B) to 4532(d)(1)(B)", "evidence_type": "executive order amendment", "published_on": "2025-04-08", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-003660805233" } ], "research_scope": "Retained the previously checked Resilience and DIBC evidence. Read EO 14241 section 6 and EO 14261 section 3; searched official DFC domestic-mineral and DPA fund terms. Ukraine reconstruction-fund results were not treated as domestic DPA implementation." }, { "record_id": "IND-04", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Public sources provide two concrete DPA execution processes and expressly identify purchase commitments, but the general FOA is suspended/expired and the 2026 mineral call is closed.", "routes": [ { "program": "DPA Title III production expansion — AFRL FOA (suspended/closed)", "administering_office": "OSD manages; AFRL/RXM executes the FOA; AFRL/RXKM handles agreements. Registry separately names Air Force executive agent and AFRL/RXME OPR. Current assignment must be verified.", "audience": "Domestic-source industrial-capacity projects.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Domestic-source lead required. The FOA addresses sustaining critical production, commercializing R&D and scaling emerging technology.", "source": { "title": "DPA Title III FOA FA8650-19-S-5010, Amendment 5", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/297824", "locator": "PDF pp4,8,11–12", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-851135a6ef00" } }, { "text": "The FOA required SAM registration, GAAP financial-system certification and a current NIST800-171 self-assessment in SPRS; project-specific export controls could require DD2345. These are this FOA’s terms, not universal DPA rules.", "source": { "title": "DPA Title III FOA FA8650-19-S-5010, Amendment 5", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/297824", "locator": "PDF pp6,10–12", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-851135a6ef00" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Published sequence: white paper plus rough-order cost; government review; invited technical/cost proposal; evaluation and negotiated agreement. Separate calls had their own SAM deadlines.", "source": { "title": "DPA Title III FOA FA8650-19-S-5010, Amendment 5", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/297824", "locator": "PDF pp4–5", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-851135a6ef00" } }, { "text": "For any new opportunity, identify its live SAM notice and amendments before using these archived instructions.", "source": { "title": "DPA Title III FOA FA8650-19-S-5010, Amendment 5", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/297824", "locator": "PDF p1 suspension notice; pp4–5 call procedure", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-851135a6ef00" } } ], "status": { "label": "White papers suspended; listed closing date passed", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Amendment 5 suspends white-paper submissions until further notice and lists July 12, 2026 as closing date.", "source": { "title": "DPA Title III FOA FA8650-19-S-5010, Amendment 5", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/297824", "locator": "PDF p1", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-851135a6ef00" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The FOA estimates up to $9 billion total ($4.5 billion government/$4.5 billion recipients), not appropriated cash or an obligation. Its 50/50 cost-share goal permits justified departures requiring approval.", "source": { "title": "DPA Title III FOA FA8650-19-S-5010, Amendment 5", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/297824", "locator": "PDF pp11–12", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-851135a6ef00" }, "kind": "solicitation planning estimate and cost-share goal", "period": "2019 FOA, amendment July 1, 2025" }, { "text": "$321.923 million FY 26 DPA Purchases no-year appropriation is account context, not an allocation to this FOA or instrument.", "source": { "title": "Consolidated Appropriations Act 2026, Public Law 119-75", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm", "locator": "Division A, title III, Defense Production Act Purchases", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e1509f38750f" }, "kind": "appropriation, account-level", "period": "FY 2026" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Expected awards are Technology Investment Agreements, rarely cooperative agreements; this process is not a general equity or credit application.", "source": { "title": "DPA Title III FOA FA8650-19-S-5010, Amendment 5", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/297824", "locator": "PDF p11, Award Information", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-851135a6ef00" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read archived DPA FOA", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/297824", "type": "suspended/closed solicitation", "scope": "Learn documented process; do not submit against the expired general FOA." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "FOA expressly implements DPA Title III production capacity; it does not identify every award as a § 4533 purchase commitment.", "source": { "title": "DPA Title III FOA FA8650-19-S-5010, Amendment 5", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/297824", "locator": "PDF pp3–5", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-851135a6ef00" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" }, { "program": "DIBC critical-minerals RPP-CM-26-02 (closed call)", "administering_office": "IBP/WIRE program; Washington Headquarters Services Acquisition Directorate (WHS/AD) administers the DIBC agreement with ATI; project-specific current assignment must be verified.", "audience": "DIBC members with domestic critical-mineral projects; this call covered indium, magnesium, manganese and titanium.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "At least one named mineral and one area of interest; DPA proposals must establish defense essentiality, industry-capacity shortfall and cost-effectiveness.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp2–4, §§ 1.1.2.1.2 and 2.0", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Active SAM registration and a favorable responsibility determination are required; suspended/debarred firms are excluded.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp11–12, §§ 7.1–7.2", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Closed-call procedure: submit the mandatory quad chart through ATI AMP; only invited applicants proceed to an execution plan, price package and environmental-assessment questionnaire.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp5–7, § 3", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Only an Agreements Officer can bind the government; instrument and terms are negotiated, not selected unilaterally by an applicant.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 5.4", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "status": { "label": "Closed — historical process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Deadline was September 17, 2026 at noon Eastern; this call is no longer an open intake.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p1, RPP Closes", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The call expressly lists DPA § 4533 purchase commitments/guarantees.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, "kind": "potential instrument, not award or balance", "period": "RPP released August 21, 2026" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Section 6 lists possible financial instruments; it does not establish that one was funded, delegated, or awarded. The primary contemplated project route is a research or prototype OT.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p3 § 1.3 and p11 § 6.1", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the closed mineral call", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "type": "closed solicitation", "scope": "Reference process only; not an open application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The call explicitly links purchase commitments to section 4533; no completed offtake award or currently open call was established.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1; p3, § 1.3", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "relationship_type": "direct implementation" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "A specific current purchase commitment, price-support transaction and live procurement intake were not verified.", "Preserve statutory findings, domestic-source rules, term limits and project-specific approving authority; a documented TIA process is not a universal offtake procedure." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DPA Title III FOA FA8650-19-S-5010, Amendment 5", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/297824", "locator": "PDF pp1,3–7,10–12; amendment dated July 1, 2025", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-851135a6ef00" }, { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp1–12; released August 21, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, { "title": "DIBC solicitations", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/solicitations-2/", "locator": "Active Solicitations; Upcoming Solicitations; Recent Past Solicitations; updated September 17, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04" }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ce3c94435f8f" }, { "title": "Executive Agent registry — Defense Production Act Title III", "url": "https://dod-executiveagent.osd.mil/Agents/AgentPrint.aspx?agentId=20", "locator": "Executive Agent; Principal Staff Assistant; OPR; Last Updated", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-34938cf41a3c" }, { "title": "Consolidated Appropriations Act 2026, Public Law 119-75", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm", "locator": "Division A, title III, Defense Production Act Purchases", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e1509f38750f" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-05", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Equipment and facility expansion are concretely within a recent DPA/IBAS mineral process. No source read establishes that this call used the distinct government-owned equipment or plant powers in § 4533(e)–(g).", "routes": [ { "program": "DIBC critical-minerals RPP-CM-26-02 (closed call)", "administering_office": "IBP/WIRE program; Washington Headquarters Services Acquisition Directorate (WHS/AD) administers the DIBC agreement with ATI; project-specific current assignment must be verified.", "audience": "DIBC members with domestic critical-mineral projects; this call covered indium, magnesium, manganese and titanium.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "AOI1 includes infrastructure and capital investment to operationalize mining/beneficiation; AOI6 includes tooling, production equipment and supporting chemical/material inputs. A named mineral/AOI remains required.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p4, AOIs1 and6", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Closed-call procedure: submit the mandatory quad chart through ATI AMP; only invited applicants proceed to an execution plan, price package and environmental-assessment questionnaire.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp5–7, § 3", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Only an Agreements Officer can bind the government; instrument and terms are negotiated, not selected unilaterally by an applicant.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 5.4", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Invited proposals include an environmental-assessment questionnaire; negotiate site, property, milestones and agreement terms with the responsible award office.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp6–7 § 3; p11 § 5.4", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "status": { "label": "Closed — historical process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Deadline was September 17, 2026 at noon Eastern; this call is no longer an open intake.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p1, RPP Closes", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Capacity-expansion project agreements are contemplated; funding amount is negotiated and is not stated as a current available pool.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, "kind": "potential instrument, not award or balance", "period": "RPP released August 21, 2026" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Section 6 lists possible financial instruments; it does not establish that one was funded, delegated, or awarded. The primary contemplated project route is a research or prototype OT.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p3 § 1.3 and p11 § 6.1", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the closed mineral call", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "type": "closed solicitation", "scope": "Reference process only; not an open application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DPA Title III is an expressly named funding pathway, and AOIs include equipment and infrastructure. This does not prove use of the specific § 4533(e)–(g) government-equipment/plant powers.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1; p3, § 1.3", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Specific equipment title, private-site placement/waiver, indemnity and executing-property office remain unverified.", "Do not equate any capital-expenditure award with government acquisition or installation of equipment under these subsections." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp1–12; released August 21, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, { "title": "DIBC solicitations", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/solicitations-2/", "locator": "Active Solicitations; Upcoming Solicitations; Recent Past Solicitations; updated September 17, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04" }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ce3c94435f8f" }, { "title": "Executive Agent registry — Defense Production Act Title III", "url": "https://dod-executiveagent.osd.mil/Agents/AgentPrint.aspx?agentId=20", "locator": "Executive Agent; Principal Staff Assistant; OPR; Last Updated", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-34938cf41a3c" }, { "title": "WIRE — Industrial Base Policy", "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire.html", "locator": "What We Do; focus areas", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-370204e35103", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "DPA Title III FOA FA8650-19-S-5010, Amendment 5", "url": "https://apply07.grants.gov/grantsws/rest/opportunity/att/download/297824", "locator": "PDF pp1,3–7,10–12; amendment dated July 1, 2025", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-851135a6ef00" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-06", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "VISA supplies an implemented § 4558 example, application form, continuing enrollment and a 2029 agreement endpoint. The generic Title III executor is a routing error.", "routes": [ { "program": "Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement (VISA)", "administering_office": "MARAD Office of Sealift Support with DoD/USTRANSCOM readiness requirements.", "audience": "Qualifying U.S.-flag commercial vessel operators.", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "U.S.-flag operators may enroll qualifying vessels; enrolled intermodal capacity becomes mandatory upon activation.", "source": { "title": "MARAD Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement", "url": "https://www.maritime.dot.gov/national-security/strategic-sealift/voluntary-intermodal-sealift-agreement-visa", "locator": "The Program; How It Works; Questions", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f2902f624026" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Use FormMA-1020: notarized application in two originals, eligibility worksheet/documentation and vessel-capacity spreadsheet; MARAD returns an accepted original.", "source": { "title": "MARAD Form MA-1020 VISA enrollment package", "url": "https://www.maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.dot.gov/files/2025-09/Form%20MA%201020%20VISA%20Enrollment%20Package%20rev.%202025.pdf", "locator": "Instructions Parts I–III", "evidence_type": "official application form", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Form revision August 2025; exact publication day not stated.", "source_id": "src-4ad08c02952f" } } ], "status": { "label": "Program extended; enrollment published", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Agreement extended to October 1, 2029; MARAD says eligible nonparticipants may enroll at any time. August 2026 fleet data identifies 100 VISA vessels.", "source": { "title": "VISA Extension and Modification", "url": "https://www.transportation.gov/regulations/federal-register-documents/2024-23974", "locator": "Summary; extension through October 1, 2029", "evidence_type": "Federal Register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-10-18", "source_id": "src-9901ec6c2a60" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Enrollment gives DoD peacetime cargo contracting preference, not a direct VISA stipend. Separate MSP payments must not be attributed to VISA.", "source": { "title": "MARAD Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement", "url": "https://www.maritime.dot.gov/national-security/strategic-sealift/voluntary-intermodal-sealift-agreement-visa", "locator": "The Program; How It Works; Questions", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f2902f624026" }, "kind": "contracting preference, no direct enrollment payment", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "This is a supervised section708 agreement, not immunity for unrelated industry coordination.", "source": { "title": "MARAD Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement", "url": "https://www.maritime.dot.gov/national-security/strategic-sealift/voluntary-intermodal-sealift-agreement-visa", "locator": "The Program;50 USC4558 authority", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f2902f624026" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "VISA program and enrollment", "url": "https://www.maritime.dot.gov/national-security/strategic-sealift/voluntary-intermodal-sealift-agreement-visa", "type": "published enrollment process", "scope": "Voluntary enrollment; accepted participants must perform when activated." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "MARAD expressly cites 50 USC 4558; the enrollment form identifies DPA § 708.", "source": { "title": "MARAD Form MA-1020 VISA enrollment package", "url": "https://www.maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.dot.gov/files/2025-09/Form%20MA%201020%20VISA%20Enrollment%20Package%20rev.%202025.pdf", "locator": "Cover and instructions", "evidence_type": "official application form", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Form revision August 2025; exact publication day not stated.", "source_id": "src-4ad08c02952f" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Do not represent VISA’s sector-specific enrollment as a universal voluntary-agreement application.", "FEMA’s pandemic agreement found in search stated August 17, 2025 expiry; renewal not verified and not presented as current." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "MARAD Voluntary Intermodal Sealift Agreement", "url": "https://www.maritime.dot.gov/national-security/strategic-sealift/voluntary-intermodal-sealift-agreement-visa", "locator": "The Program; How It Works; Questions", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f2902f624026" }, { "title": "MARAD Form MA-1020 VISA enrollment package", "url": "https://www.maritime.dot.gov/sites/marad.dot.gov/files/2025-09/Form%20MA%201020%20VISA%20Enrollment%20Package%20rev.%202025.pdf", "locator": "Form MA-1020 (08/2025), Instructions Parts I–III; OMB 2133-0532 expires August 31, 2028", "evidence_type": "official application form", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Form revision August 2025; exact publication day not stated.", "source_id": "src-4ad08c02952f" }, { "title": "VISA Extension and Modification", "url": "https://www.transportation.gov/regulations/federal-register-documents/2024-23974", "locator": "Summary; extension through October 1, 2029", "evidence_type": "Federal Register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-10-18", "source_id": "src-9901ec6c2a60" }, { "title": "MARAD U.S.-flag fleet dashboard", "url": "https://www.maritime.dot.gov/data-reports/us-flag-fleet-dashboard", "locator": "Maritime program participation, August 2026", "evidence_type": "official administrative data", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Observation period August 2026; no exact publication day claimed.", "source_id": "src-a4f37b5af35b" } ], "research_scope": "Read § 4558 record; searched MARAD section708 extension/enrollment and FEMA pandemic-agreement renewal; read current MARAD program, form and August 2026 fleet data." }, { "record_id": "IND-07", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "BIS implements compulsory industrial-base surveys through SIES, with confidentiality, exemption, extension and enforcement rules. The API example was announced in 2024; no general funding intake is created.", "routes": [ { "program": "BIS industrial-base surveys — API assessment example", "administering_office": "Commerce BIS Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security, Defense Industrial Base Division; HHS ASPR/IBMSC sponsored the documented API assessment.", "audience": "Entities selected to receive a specific industrial-base survey.", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Recipients must respond unless BIS grants an exemption; listed grounds include no U.S. presence, no relevant industry connection, recent startup/ceased operations or qualifying impracticality.", "source": { "title": "BIS API survey legal requirements", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/active-pharmaceutical-ingredient/legal-requirements", "locator": "15 CFR702.4(a)–(b)", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c36e185b1354" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Complete/certify the specific survey by its letter’s deadline; request an extension/exemption through that letter’s contact. A request does not itself suspend the deadline.", "source": { "title": "BIS API survey legal requirements", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/active-pharmaceutical-ingredient/legal-requirements", "locator": "702.4(c)–(e); General Instructions", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c36e185b1354" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published survey process; API launch is historical", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The API assessment was announced July 9, 2024 as a one-time collection. Its announcement anticipated a public report by summer 2026; publication and a current response window were not verified. Current BIS assessment listings show other ongoing surveys.", "source": { "title": "BIS to conduct assessment of U.S. Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient industrial base", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/press-release/bis-conduct-assessment-u.s.-active-pharmaceutical-ingredient-industrial-base", "locator": "Opening announcement; FAQs: Who requested the assessment?; Is this an annual/repeated collection?; Will findings be publicly available?", "evidence_type": "official agency announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-07-09", "source_id": "src-0ae6169ed317" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Individual survey responses do not determine eligibility/consideration for government funding. No investment funds are supplied by the survey.", "source": { "title": "BIS API survey legal requirements", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/active-pharmaceutical-ingredient/legal-requirements", "locator": "Introduction; 15 CFR702.1–702.6; survey instructions", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c36e185b1354" }, "kind": "information collection, not award", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Survey responses are treated as confidential under the stated statutory rules; noncompliance can lead to subpoena and judicial enforcement.", "source": { "title": "BIS API survey legal requirements", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/active-pharmaceutical-ingredient/legal-requirements", "locator": "702.3,702.5", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c36e185b1354" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "API survey legal requirements and forms", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/active-pharmaceutical-ingredient/legal-requirements", "type": "mandatory data-response process", "scope": "Not funding intake; use the survey’s distribution letter and designated response channel." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The source explicitly implements 50 USC 4555 and 15 CFR 702. This is BIS information collection, not a Title III contracting intake.", "source": { "title": "BIS API survey legal requirements", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/active-pharmaceutical-ingredient/legal-requirements", "locator": "Opening paragraph", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c36e185b1354" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "This evidence establishes BIS’s § 4555 implementation, not every DoD 10 USC4818 delegation or an unrestricted inspection power.", "Direct current assessment index and older search-index text differ. No completed 2026 API report or currently open API response window verified; use the individual survey letter, not the anticipated publication date." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "BIS API survey legal requirements", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/active-pharmaceutical-ingredient/legal-requirements", "locator": "Introduction; 15 CFR702.1–702.6; survey instructions", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c36e185b1354" }, { "title": "BIS Industrial Base Assessments", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/about-bis/bis-leadership-and-offices/sies/industrial-base-assessments", "locator": "SIES/DIB responsibilities; Ongoing Assessments", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Direct HTTP 200 page checked 2026-10-04 lists Barriers to Entry and Key Starting Materials as ongoing. Search-index text still lists API as ongoing; no completed 2026 API report was verified.", "source_id": "src-d6b5973478c2" }, { "title": "BIS to conduct assessment of U.S. Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient industrial base", "url": "https://www.bis.gov/press-release/bis-conduct-assessment-u.s.-active-pharmaceutical-ingredient-industrial-base", "locator": "Opening announcement; FAQs: Who requested the assessment?; Is this an annual/repeated collection?; Will findings be publicly available?", "evidence_type": "official agency announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-07-09", "source_id": "src-0ae6169ed317" } ], "research_scope": "Searched BIS section705 mandatory surveys, industrial assessments and API legal requirements; read full regulatory excerpts. Rechecked the July 9, 2024 launch announcement and direct current BIS index; distinguished the expected 2026 report date from survey launch or verified report publication." }, { "record_id": "IND-08", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Two distinct OSC direct-loan routes are documented: closed initial equipment intake and published NSFF fund-manager intake. SBICCT is a separate SBA-supported private-fund route.", "routes": [ { "program": "OSC Equipment Finance — initial direct-loan round", "administering_office": "Office of Strategic Capital", "audience": "Eligible operating companies/project sponsors seeking equipment financing; not a general startup grant.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "U.S.-domiciled applicants, eligible dual-use covered technology, creditworthiness and qualifying equipment investment; foreign ownership alone is not disqualifying.", "source": { "title": "OSC Equipment Finance", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/credit-program/", "locator": "Application status; eligibility and exclusions; application process", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-df5fba8c5602" } }, { "text": "The initial NOFA permits borrower or sponsor operating history; its three-year baseline may be waived or increased by OSC.", "source": { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Initial Part 1 screening, invited Part 2 underwriting/due diligence, credit approval and negotiated documents, then closing and conditional disbursement.", "source": { "title": "OSC Equipment Finance", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/credit-program/", "locator": "Application status; eligibility and exclusions; application process", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-df5fba8c5602" } }, { "text": "Prepare project, technology, ownership, financing and repayment evidence; the published NOFA specifies SAM registration and a UEI.", "source": { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Initial published loan range: $10M–$150M per eligible borrower; this is principal, not a grant or current uncommitted balance.", "kind": "Historical program loan range", "period": "Initial 2024 NOFA / 2025 intake", "source": { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" } }, { "text": "FY 2026 enacted credit account: $97.770M no-year credit-cost funding and $4.390B loan/guarantee principal ceiling; not a remaining balance or equipment-only allocation.", "kind": "Enacted credit subsidy / principal ceiling", "period": "FY 2026", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-75", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm", "locator": "Division A, Department of Defense Credit Program Account and section 8134", "published_on": "2026-02-03", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e1509f38750f" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Early-stage/pre-revenue or insufficient-history applicants need a creditworthy sponsor/guarantor; sole-federal-user projects and repayment predominantly from federal sources are excluded by program criteria.", "source": { "title": "OSC Equipment Finance", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/credit-program/", "locator": "Application status; eligibility and exclusions; application process", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-df5fba8c5602" } }, { "text": "This NOFA offers direct loans only. Its discussion of future guarantees does not establish a currently open guarantee product.", "source": { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" } } ], "status": { "label": "Initial Part 1 intake closed", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Part 1 closed February 3, 2025. Existing applicants have a published contact route; a new generally open company intake was not verified.", "source": { "title": "OSC Equipment Finance", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/credit-program/", "locator": "Application status; eligibility and exclusions; application process", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-df5fba8c5602" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Equipment Finance status and existing-applicant instructions", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/credit-program/", "type": "program status / existing applicant contact", "scope": "Not a new open application. Existing applicants: OSC.Loan.Application@osc.mil, subject NOFA 1 Contact." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Published implementation of OSC direct-loan authority under 10 U.S.C. 149; the initial equipment program is narrower than the full statute.", "source": { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" } }, "relationship_type": "direct implementation" }, { "program": "National Security Fund Finance — critical minerals/materials debt funds", "administering_office": "Office of Strategic Capital", "audience": "Professional debt-fund managers, not operating-company applicants.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Manager and fund must be U.S.-formed and appropriately authorized, with substantial U.S. presence, relevant experience, reporting and cyber capabilities; restricted entities are ineligible.", "source": { "title": "OSC National Security Fund Finance NOFO", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f5b43faeadb64998a43c7bc889f82c6a/view", "locator": "NSFF NOFO.pdf, dated August 19, 2026, printed pp.1–5, 12–15; PDF pp.3–7,14–17", "published_on": "2026-08-19", "download_url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/6c1ea2eeef00472d82247d61c2ccc6a6/download", "retrieval_note": "Public SAM attachment successfully downloaded; public attachment retrieved.", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0de022c45f21" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Submit four proposal volumes, requested attachments, ownership/foreign-interest information, track record and SAM/UEI details; screening, diligence and OMB subsidy scoring precede negotiated closing.", "source": { "title": "OSC National Security Fund Finance NOFO", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f5b43faeadb64998a43c7bc889f82c6a/view", "locator": "NSFF NOFO.pdf, dated August 19, 2026, printed pp.1–5, 12–15; PDF pp.3–7,14–17", "published_on": "2026-08-19", "download_url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/6c1ea2eeef00472d82247d61c2ccc6a6/download", "retrieval_note": "Public SAM attachment successfully downloaded; public attachment retrieved.", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0de022c45f21" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "The public NOFO retains bracketed $500M–$1B and 125% terms plus a drafting note. Do not render these as settled amounts; seek the complete current terms.", "kind": "Proposed fund credit facility; unresolved published terms", "period": "August 19, 2026 NOFO", "source": { "title": "OSC National Security Fund Finance NOFO", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f5b43faeadb64998a43c7bc889f82c6a/view", "locator": "NSFF NOFO.pdf, dated August 19, 2026, printed pp.1–5, 12–15; PDF pp.3–7,14–17", "published_on": "2026-08-19", "download_url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/6c1ea2eeef00472d82247d61c2ccc6a6/download", "retrieval_note": "Public SAM attachment successfully downloaded; public attachment retrieved.", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0de022c45f21" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "OSC advances must fund eligible first-/second-lien critical-minerals/materials loans for dual-use sectors not predominantly federally capitalized. Fund equity investing is barred except workout/restructuring holdings, subject to lawful OSC waiver. Loan draws cannot pay partners; this is not a blanket ban on permitted fund-income distributions.", "source": { "title": "OSC National Security Fund Finance NOFO", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f5b43faeadb64998a43c7bc889f82c6a/view", "locator": "NOFO section3.C, printed pp3–4/PDF pp5–6; Attachment I Restricted Payments, printed p25/PDF p27; Schedule I Investment Restrictions and waiver, PDF p37.", "published_on": "2026-08-19", "download_url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/6c1ea2eeef00472d82247d61c2ccc6a6/download", "retrieval_note": "Full 54-page official SAM attachment downloaded and read. Attachments I–III are embedded in this PDF; IV/V are separately listed. Several numeric terms remain bracketed and a drafting note remains.", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0de022c45f21" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published submission window", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Proposals due November 1, 2026, 5 p.m. EDT. This is a debt-fund-manager submission window, not an operating-company loan application.", "source": { "title": "OSC National Security Fund Finance NOFO", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f5b43faeadb64998a43c7bc889f82c6a/view", "locator": "Key Dates, printed p. 1 / PDF p. 3: November 1, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. EDT; intended diligence selection January 10, 2027; conditional commitments March 10, 2027; OSC reserves deadline extensions.", "published_on": "2026-08-19", "download_url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/6c1ea2eeef00472d82247d61c2ccc6a6/download", "retrieval_note": "Full 54-page official SAM attachment downloaded and read. Attachments I–III are embedded in this PDF; IV/V are separately listed. Several numeric terms remain bracketed and a drafting note remains.", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0de022c45f21" } }, "engagement": { "label": "NSFF notice and application package", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f5b43faeadb64998a43c7bc889f82c6a/view", "type": "fund-manager application", "scope": "Published proposal email: OSDRE-NationalSecurityFundFinanceSubmissions@groups.mail.mil. Review the full NOFO, embedded Attachments I–III, separately listed IV/V, and later amendments before submission. Bracketed terms require clarification." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "NOFO cites 10 U.S.C. 149 and covered critical-minerals/materials category; this is OSC fund-level lending, not direct government equity.", "source": { "title": "OSC National Security Fund Finance NOFO", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f5b43faeadb64998a43c7bc889f82c6a/view", "locator": "NSFF NOFO.pdf, dated August 19, 2026, printed pp.1–5, 12–15; PDF pp.3–7,14–17", "published_on": "2026-08-19", "download_url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/6c1ea2eeef00472d82247d61c2ccc6a6/download", "retrieval_note": "Public SAM attachment successfully downloaded; public attachment retrieved.", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0de022c45f21" } }, "relationship_type": "direct implementation" }, { "program": "SBIC Critical Technology Initiative — adjacent SBA/OSC route", "administering_office": "SBA Office of Investment and Innovation, with OSC technology support", "audience": "Fund managers apply for SBIC licensure; eligible small businesses approach participating private funds.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Fund strategy must direct at least 60% of invested capital to the initiative focus; SBA assesses team, strategy, fundraising and operations. Adversarial-country direct LPs are disqualifying under the IPS.", "source": { "title": "SBIC Critical Technology Initiative Investment Policy Statement", "url": "https://legacy.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2025-08/Investment%20Policy%20Statement%20dated%201-10-2025%20With%20Exhibit%20A.pdf", "locator": "January 10, 2025 IPS, sections 1, 3.1–3.5 and 4; PDF pp.3,5,8–16", "published_on": "2025-01-10", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-34621aa0b478" } }, { "text": "Portfolio companies must satisfy applicable SBA size, U.S.-operations and eligible-industry rules; each private fund sets its investment focus.", "source": { "title": "SBA — Investment capital", "url": "https://www.sba.gov/loans/additional-funding-opportunities/investment-capital/", "locator": "Check your eligibility; Find an investor", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-0bc8ca106c1c" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Fund-manager route: optional pre-screen, Management Assessment Questionnaire and exhibits/fee, diligence/interview, green-light fundraising and final licensing.", "source": { "title": "SBA — Small Business Investment Companies", "url": "https://www.sba.gov/for-partners/small-business-investment-companies/", "locator": "Apply to be an SBIC; types of debentures; leverage commitments", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-3b9fa005f64c" } }, { "text": "Company route: identify an actively investing suitable fund, prepare a business plan and approach that fund—not an OSC company application.", "source": { "title": "SBA — Investment capital", "url": "https://www.sba.gov/loans/additional-funding-opportunities/investment-capital/", "locator": "Check your eligibility; Find an investor", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-0bc8ca106c1c" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "SBA-guaranteed debentures leverage privately raised fund capital. Standard and accrual structures differ; leverage is subject to licensing and SBA credit limits, not an OSC appropriation.", "kind": "SBA-guaranteed fund debt plus private capital", "period": "Current SBA program guidance", "source": { "title": "SBA — Small Business Investment Companies", "url": "https://www.sba.gov/for-partners/small-business-investment-companies/", "locator": "Apply to be an SBIC; types of debentures; leverage commitments", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-3b9fa005f64c" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Private licensees make portfolio investment decisions. SBICCT participation does not make a company eligible for every OSC credit program.", "source": { "title": "SBIC Critical Technology Initiative Investment Policy Statement", "url": "https://legacy.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2025-08/Investment%20Policy%20Statement%20dated%201-10-2025%20With%20Exhibit%20A.pdf", "locator": "January 10, 2025 IPS, sections 1, 3.1–3.5 and 4; PDF pp.3,5,8–16", "published_on": "2025-01-10", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-34621aa0b478" } } ], "status": { "label": "Licensing process documented; verify fund appetite", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "SBA removed quarterly initial-review filing windows effective May 18, 2026. Applications are processed on receipt, subject to priority rules and completeness.", "source": { "title": "SBA Procedural Notice 2026-002: Quarterly Filing Windows", "url": "https://legacy.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2026-06/Policy%20Procedural%20Notice%20-%20Quarterly%20Filing%20Windows%20-%20May%2018%202026.pdf", "locator": "Pages 1–2, effective May 18, 2026", "published_on": "2026-05-18", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a51b30dd70a6" } }, "engagement": { "label": "SBICCT fund-manager directory", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/SBICCT_chart_AUG2026_b.pdf", "type": "company-to-private-fund discovery", "scope": "August 2026 published cohort; verify each manager’s license status, sector fit and current investment appetite. Managers seeking licenses use SBA guidance." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "A joint SBA–DoD initiative under the SBIC framework and memorandum of agreement; it is adjacent to, not proof of execution of, OSC section 149 loan-guarantee authority.", "source": { "title": "SBIC Critical Technology Initiative Investment Policy Statement", "url": "https://legacy.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2025-08/Investment%20Policy%20Statement%20dated%201-10-2025%20With%20Exhibit%20A.pdf", "locator": "January 10, 2025 IPS, sections 1, 3.1–3.5 and 4; PDF pp.3,5,8–16", "published_on": "2025-01-10", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-34621aa0b478" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "The public 54-page NSFF NOFO includes Attachments I–III; IV/V are separately listed on SAM. Several facility-size, leverage, concentration and covenant terms remain bracketed, with a drafting note. Confirm final terms and later amendments; do not present bracketed figures as settled commitments.", "Equipment program has no verified new open company intake. Obtain a newer notice before changing that status.", "OSC homepage says SBIC leverage up to $175M while the dedicated fund-financing page says $250M. Do not publish a single universal cap until current statute/license-type rules resolve the discrepancy." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "OSC Equipment Finance", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/credit-program/", "locator": "Application status; eligibility and exclusions; application process", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-df5fba8c5602" }, { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" }, { "title": "OSC Investment Fund Financing", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/investment-fund-financing/", "locator": "National Security Fund Finance; Small Business Investment Company Critical Technology Initiative", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-594443246b1b" }, { "title": "OSC National Security Fund Finance NOFO", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f5b43faeadb64998a43c7bc889f82c6a/view", "locator": "NSFF NOFO.pdf, dated August 19, 2026, printed pp.1–5, 12–15; PDF pp.3–7,14–17", "published_on": "2026-08-19", "download_url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/6c1ea2eeef00472d82247d61c2ccc6a6/download", "retrieval_note": "Public SAM attachment successfully downloaded; public attachment retrieved.", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0de022c45f21" }, { "title": "SAM public attachment manifest for NSFF", "url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/f5b43faeadb64998a43c7bc889f82c6a/resources", "locator": "Public resources returned October 4, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "source_id": "src-a3a5c25bfca8" }, { "title": "SBA — Small Business Investment Companies", "url": "https://www.sba.gov/for-partners/small-business-investment-companies/", "locator": "Apply to be an SBIC; types of debentures; leverage commitments", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-3b9fa005f64c" }, { "title": "SBIC Critical Technology Initiative Investment Policy Statement", "url": "https://legacy.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2025-08/Investment%20Policy%20Statement%20dated%201-10-2025%20With%20Exhibit%20A.pdf", "locator": "January 10, 2025 IPS, sections 1, 3.1–3.5 and 4; PDF pp.3,5,8–16", "published_on": "2025-01-10", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-34621aa0b478" }, { "title": "SBA Procedural Notice 2026-002: Quarterly Filing Windows", "url": "https://legacy.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2026-06/Policy%20Procedural%20Notice%20-%20Quarterly%20Filing%20Windows%20-%20May%2018%202026.pdf", "locator": "Pages 1–2, effective May 18, 2026", "published_on": "2026-05-18", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a51b30dd70a6" }, { "title": "SBA — Investment capital", "url": "https://www.sba.gov/loans/additional-funding-opportunities/investment-capital/", "locator": "Check your eligibility; Find an investor", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-0bc8ca106c1c" }, { "title": "OSC SBICCT cohort chart, August 2026", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/SBICCT_chart_AUG2026_b.pdf", "locator": "One-page fund manager and investment-focus directory", "published_on": "2026-08", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f620a997c924" }, { "title": "OSC National Security Fund Finance NOFO", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f5b43faeadb64998a43c7bc889f82c6a/view", "locator": "NOFO dated August 19, 2026: Key Dates printed p. 1 / PDF p. 3; funding restrictions printed pp. 3–4 / PDF pp. 5–6; Attachment I PDF pp. 19–49; II pp. 50–51; III pp. 52–54.", "published_on": "2026-08-19", "download_url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/6c1ea2eeef00472d82247d61c2ccc6a6/download", "retrieval_note": "Full 54-page official SAM attachment downloaded and read. Attachments I–III are embedded in this PDF; IV/V are separately listed. Several numeric terms remain bracketed and a drafting note remains.", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0de022c45f21" }, { "title": "OSC National Security Fund Finance NOFO", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f5b43faeadb64998a43c7bc889f82c6a/view", "locator": "Key Dates, printed p. 1 / PDF p. 3: November 1, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. EDT; intended diligence selection January 10, 2027; conditional commitments March 10, 2027; OSC reserves deadline extensions.", "published_on": "2026-08-19", "download_url": "https://sam.gov/api/prod/opps/v3/opportunities/resources/files/6c1ea2eeef00472d82247d61c2ccc6a6/download", "retrieval_note": "Full 54-page official SAM attachment downloaded and read. Attachments I–III are embedded in this PDF; IV/V are separately listed. Several numeric terms remain bracketed and a drafting note remains.", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0de022c45f21" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-09", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "Guarantee authority and enacted credit funding are established; the researched public OSC offerings are direct loans, not a verified guarantee application program.", "routes": [ { "program": "OSC loan guarantees — statutory authority, no separate current offering verified", "administering_office": "Office of Strategic Capital", "audience": "Potential eligible credit recipients/lenders; current guarantee-specific applicant class and intake not verified.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Section 149 authorizes guarantees subject to applicable credit, technology and funding controls; do not mechanically copy direct-loan-only percentages onto a guarantee.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 149 — Office of Strategic Capital", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section149&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (e)–(h); original record plus amendments reviewed", "retrieval_note": "OLRC direct page intermittently returns maintenance; use linked enacted amendments as additional evidence.", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-29adb785e698" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Use OSC’s production program pages to identify a guarantee-specific notice if published; the examined initial NOFA expressly offers only direct loans.", "source": { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "FY 2026 enacted credit account provides $97.770M in no-year credit-cost funding with a $4.390B principal ceiling for covered loans/guarantees; not a guarantee-only allocation or remaining balance.", "kind": "Enacted credit subsidy / principal ceiling", "period": "FY 2026", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-75", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm", "locator": "Division A, Department of Defense Credit Program Account and section 8134", "published_on": "2026-02-03", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e1509f38750f" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Credit authority does not equal an announced guarantee offering. SBA-guaranteed SBIC debentures are issued under a separate program and are not OSC guarantees.", "source": { "title": "SBIC Critical Technology Initiative Investment Policy Statement", "url": "https://legacy.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2025-08/Investment%20Policy%20Statement%20dated%201-10-2025%20With%20Exhibit%20A.pdf", "locator": "January 10, 2025 IPS, sections 1, 3.1–3.5 and 4; PDF pp.3,5,8–16", "published_on": "2025-01-10", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-34621aa0b478" } } ], "status": { "label": "Guarantee implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Equipment Finance and NSFF are documented direct-loan offerings. No separate current OSC guarantee application was verified in these production program materials.", "source": { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" } }, "engagement": { "label": "OSC program information", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/credit-program/", "type": "reference / status", "scope": "No guarantee-specific application route verified; do not label Apply." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Statutory OSC guarantee authority is recorded in section 149(e)(3); operational product terms remain to be verified.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 149 — Office of Strategic Capital", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section149&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (e)–(h); original record plus amendments reviewed", "retrieval_note": "OLRC direct page intermittently returns maintenance; use linked enacted amendments as additional evidence.", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-29adb785e698" } }, "relationship_type": "unverified" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Find a guarantee-specific NOFO, eligibility terms, underwriting/process guidance and published intake before calling the product open.", "SBICCT is documented separately under IND-08; it must not fill this guarantee-evidence gap." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. 149 — Office of Strategic Capital", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section149&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (e)–(h); original record plus amendments reviewed", "retrieval_note": "OLRC direct page intermittently returns maintenance; use linked enacted amendments as additional evidence.", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-29adb785e698" }, { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" }, { "title": "OSC Equipment Finance", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/credit-program/", "locator": "Application status; eligibility and exclusions; application process", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-df5fba8c5602" }, { "title": "OSC Investment Fund Financing", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/investment-fund-financing/", "locator": "National Security Fund Finance; Small Business Investment Company Critical Technology Initiative", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-594443246b1b" }, { "title": "SBIC Critical Technology Initiative Investment Policy Statement", "url": "https://legacy.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2025-08/Investment%20Policy%20Statement%20dated%201-10-2025%20With%20Exhibit%20A.pdf", "locator": "January 10, 2025 IPS, sections 1, 3.1–3.5 and 4; PDF pp.3,5,8–16", "published_on": "2025-01-10", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-34621aa0b478" }, { "title": "Public Law 119-75", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ75/html/PLAW-119publ75.htm", "locator": "Division A, Department of Defense Credit Program Account and section 8134", "published_on": "2026-02-03", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e1509f38750f" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-10", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Credit diligence and support, and a live provider-side counsel call, are documented. Law-firm selection is separate from company financing and statutory technical assistance.", "routes": [ { "program": "OSC transaction support for applicants/recipients", "administering_office": "Office of Strategic Capital credit and legal teams", "audience": "Applicants invited into transaction diligence and existing recipients; not a standalone technical-assistance grant.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Technical assistance is tied to eligible OSC investments; interagency shared services require the other agency’s consent.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 149 — Office of Strategic Capital", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section149&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (e)–(h); original record plus amendments reviewed", "retrieval_note": "OLRC direct page intermittently returns maintenance; use linked enacted amendments as additional evidence.", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-29adb785e698" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The initial equipment NOFA describes independent technical, financial and legal diligence, documentation and transaction costs associated with credit review.", "source": { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Statutory fee receipts are restricted to permitted credit-administration/third-party costs; they are not a general assistance grant budget.", "kind": "Restricted fees and authorized administrative resources", "period": "Section 149 as amended", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 149 — Office of Strategic Capital", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section149&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (e)–(h); original record plus amendments reviewed", "retrieval_note": "OLRC direct page intermittently returns maintenance; use linked enacted amendments as additional evidence.", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-29adb785e698" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Fees cannot fund unrelated activities or prohibited DoD civilian expenses; statutory post-sunset servicing rules differ from new-assistance authority.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 149 — Office of Strategic Capital", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section149&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (e)–(h); original record plus amendments reviewed", "retrieval_note": "OLRC direct page intermittently returns maintenance; use linked enacted amendments as additional evidence.", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-29adb785e698" } } ], "status": { "label": "Transaction process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Support is embedded in credit transactions; a separate generally open public technical-assistance intake was not verified.", "source": { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" } }, "engagement": { "label": "OSC existing-applicant process", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/credit-program/", "type": "existing-applicant routing", "scope": "Existing credit applicants/recipients, not a public technical-assistance award application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Section 149(e)(3)(B), (e)(12), (f)–(g) supplies the assistance/fee framework; section 906 amended administrative provisions.", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Sections 867 and 906", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } }, "relationship_type": "unverified" }, { "program": "OSC Transaction Counsel Services — provider selection", "administering_office": "Office of Strategic Capital", "audience": "Qualified law firms with complex equipment, corporate or project-finance experience; provider-side opportunity.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Submission covers relevant experience, personnel, fees, conflicts, foreign interests and security capabilities; selection into a panel does not promise transactions.", "source": { "title": "OSC Transaction Counsel Call for Submissions — September posting", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/OSC-Transaction-Counsel-Call-for-Submissions-8.6.2026Final.pdf", "locator": "Main call pp.1–2; Annex A sections I–V, pp.3–7", "published_on": "2026-09", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "source_id": "src-a93e4f259243" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Submit the Annex A package to OSDRE-osc-legal@groups.mail.mil; OSC evaluates panel candidates and then selects counsel for individual transactions.", "source": { "title": "OSC Transaction Counsel Call for Submissions — September posting", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/OSC-Transaction-Counsel-Call-for-Submissions-8.6.2026Final.pdf", "locator": "Main call pp.1–2; Annex A sections I–V, pp.3–7", "published_on": "2026-09", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "source_id": "src-a93e4f259243" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Sponsor-pay model: borrower/sponsor/third party pays OSC counsel costs; OSC remains client and has no payment obligation under the call.", "kind": "Third-party-paid legal services", "period": "September 2026 call", "source": { "title": "OSC Transaction Counsel Call for Submissions — September posting", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/OSC-Transaction-Counsel-Call-for-Submissions-8.6.2026Final.pdf", "locator": "Main call pp.1–2; Annex A sections I–V, pp.3–7", "published_on": "2026-09", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "source_id": "src-a93e4f259243" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "No compensation or selection guarantee. The call’s service list mentions loan and equity documentation; that wording does not itself confer substantive equity authority.", "source": { "title": "OSC Transaction Counsel Call for Submissions — September posting", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/OSC-Transaction-Counsel-Call-for-Submissions-8.6.2026Final.pdf", "locator": "Main call pp.1–2; Annex A sections I–V, pp.3–7", "published_on": "2026-09", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "source_id": "src-a93e4f259243" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published provider submission window", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Deadline extended to December 31, 2026; consult the September-posted call and any later amendment.", "source": { "title": "OSC production homepage", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/", "locator": "September 28, 2026 transaction-counsel extension announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-c7a643a4d169" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Transaction counsel call and submission requirements", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/OSC-Transaction-Counsel-Call-for-Submissions-8.6.2026Final.pdf", "type": "professional-service provider submission", "scope": "Law firms only; not project financing or an applicant grant." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Concrete transaction-support implementation; each underlying credit or investment still needs its own legal authority.", "source": { "title": "OSC Transaction Counsel Call for Submissions — September posting", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/OSC-Transaction-Counsel-Call-for-Submissions-8.6.2026Final.pdf", "locator": "Main call pp.1–2; Annex A sections I–V, pp.3–7", "published_on": "2026-09", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "source_id": "src-a93e4f259243" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No standalone public applicant technical-assistance program verified.", "Confirm each transaction’s fee agreement, scope and governing authority; a counsel call cannot establish an equity program." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. 149 — Office of Strategic Capital", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section149&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (e)–(h); original record plus amendments reviewed", "retrieval_note": "OLRC direct page intermittently returns maintenance; use linked enacted amendments as additional evidence.", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-29adb785e698" }, { "title": "Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Sections 867 and 906", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "OSC Notice of Funding Availability, September 27, 2024", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-27/html/2024-22229.htm", "locator": "89 FR 79271–79278, sections 1, 4, 6–8", "published_on": "2024-09-27", "evidence_type": "federal register notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e7bbe4102c5b" }, { "title": "OSC Equipment Finance", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/credit-program/", "locator": "Application status; eligibility and exclusions; application process", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-df5fba8c5602" }, { "title": "OSC Transaction Counsel Call for Submissions — September posting", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/OSC-Transaction-Counsel-Call-for-Submissions-8.6.2026Final.pdf", "locator": "Main call pp.1–2; Annex A sections I–V, pp.3–7", "published_on": "2026-09", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "source_id": "src-a93e4f259243" }, { "title": "OSC production homepage", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/", "locator": "September 28, 2026 transaction-counsel extension announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-c7a643a4d169" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-11", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The Forum has statutory duties and a corroborated vice-chair role, but the public participation and transaction-review process remains unverified.", "routes": [ { "program": "National Security Capital Forum", "administering_office": "OSC Director as statutory chair; EDU director documented as vice chair", "audience": "Government and vetted private/partner-nation capital participants; no public application process verified.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The statute requires participant vetting and conflicts procedures, including restrictions concerning adversarially connected investors.", "source": { "title": "Public Law 118-159", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "locator": "Section 1092 National Security Capital Forum; section 924 OEC", "published_on": "2024-12-23", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Forum coordinates capital and agency transactions; each participating agency retains the authority and funds for its own transaction.", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Sections 867 and 906", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "No standalone Forum investment appropriation was established by the provisions reviewed; agency transactions require their own authority and resources.", "kind": "Coordination mechanism, not an investment fund", "period": "PL118-159 as amended by PL119-60", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Sections 867 and 906", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Expanded clearinghouse provisions sunset December 31, 2035; coordination does not authorize equity purchases or obligation of another agency’s funds.", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Sections 867 and 906", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Organizational role corroborated; public process not verified", "as_of": "2026-03-24", "text": "The March 2026 Key Officials publication records EDU’s director as Forum vice chair. A public participation form, current operating guidance or meeting/transaction workflow was not located.", "source": { "title": "DoD Historical Office — Key Officials, March 24, 2026", "url": "https://history.defense.gov/Portals/70/Documents/key_officials/KeyOfficials-2026-03-24.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.87, Economic Defense Unit; summarizes February 4, 2026 Deputy Secretary memorandum", "published_on": "2026-03-24", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official-domain search-index excerpt available; direct PDF retrieval returned 403. Corroborates role/reporting line, not a current transaction delegation.", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-8137b8b12254" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Forum statutory framework", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "type": "legal reference", "scope": "Not an application portal or confirmed public contact." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Section 1092 of PL 118-159 created the Forum; PL 119-60 section 867(c) expanded its clearinghouse/vetting role and section 867(d)(2) time-limited those amendments. This does not verify an operating public intake.", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-60 — National Security Capital Forum amendments", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section 867(c), adding the Forum clearinghouse/vetting provisions to PL 118-159 section 1092; section 867(d)(2), December 31, 2035 termination of amendments", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } }, "relationship_type": "unverified" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Locate issued operating guidance, vetting/conflicts procedures, meeting records or a public participation route.", "Do not substitute an OSC page explicitly labeled TEST PAGE, SBICCT events or NSFF intake for Forum implementation evidence." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "Public Law 118-159", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "locator": "Section 1092 National Security Capital Forum; section 924 OEC", "published_on": "2024-12-23", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf" }, { "title": "Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Sections 867 and 906", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "DoD Historical Office — Key Officials, March 24, 2026", "url": "https://history.defense.gov/Portals/70/Documents/key_officials/KeyOfficials-2026-03-24.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.87, Economic Defense Unit; summarizes February 4, 2026 Deputy Secretary memorandum", "published_on": "2026-03-24", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official-domain search-index excerpt available; direct PDF retrieval returned 403. Corroborates role/reporting line, not a current transaction delegation.", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-8137b8b12254" }, { "title": "OSC production homepage", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/", "locator": "September 28, 2026 transaction-counsel extension announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-c7a643a4d169" }, { "title": "Public Law 119-60 — National Security Capital Forum amendments", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section 867(c), adding the Forum clearinghouse/vetting provisions to PL118-159 section1092; section867(d)(2), December 31, 2035 termination of amendments", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "Public Law 119-60 — National Security Capital Forum amendments", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section 867(c), adding the Forum clearinghouse/vetting provisions to PL 118-159 section 1092; section 867(d)(2), December 31, 2035 termination of amendments", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "Public Law 119-60 — National Security Capital Forum amendments", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section 867(c), adding the Forum clearinghouse/vetting provisions to PL 118-159 section 1092; section 867(d)(2), December 31, 2035 termination of amendments", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "Public Law 119-60 — National Security Capital Forum amendments", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Section 867(c), adding the Forum clearinghouse/vetting provisions to PL 118-159 section 1092; section 867(d)(2), December 31, 2035 termination of amendments", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. 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Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-13", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "A real industrial consortium accepts private-equity participants, but that is not evidence that the new third-party investment power has a selected intermediary, fund, or operating intake.", "routes": [ { "program": "Cornerstone Other Transaction Authority consortium", "administering_office": "IBAS program manager with Army DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center and Army Contracting Command–Rock Island.", "audience": "Traditional/nontraditional firms, small businesses, academia and other eligible consortium participants.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The government page permits a broad membership base; foreign participants are considered case by case. 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This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp1–12; released August 21, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-14", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "A real price-protection transaction provides useful context, but predates the new IBF market-manipulation/subsidy authority. No matching implemented IBF subsidy was located.", "routes": [ { "program": "MP Materials price protection — historical comparison only", "administering_office": "DoD and MP Materials are parties in the issuer’s filed agreement; not established here as WIRE/IBF executing office.", "audience": "Named counterparty only; no general application route.", "relationship_type": "context only", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The July 2025 agreement applies to MP-produced NdPr, with contractual supply/use and restricted-buyer terms.", "source": { "title": "MP Materials July 2025 Form8-K", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801368/000119312525157310/d43796d8k.htm", "locator": "Item1.01,Price Protection Agreement", "evidence_type": "company regulatory filing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-07-10", "source_id": "src-e8097d62daac" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Read the transaction documents as counterparty-specific terms, not an application template.", "source": { "title": "MP Materials July 2025 Form8-K", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801368/000119312525157310/d43796d8k.htm", "locator": "Item1.01 and exhibits10.5–10.6", "evidence_type": "company regulatory filing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-07-10", "source_id": "src-e8097d62daac" } } ], "status": { "label": "Historical agreement disclosed", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Issuer reported July 9, 2025 definitive agreements and a ten-year price floor; this predates the December 2025 IBF amendments.", "source": { "title": "MP Materials July 2025 Form8-K", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801368/000119312525157310/d43796d8k.htm", "locator": "Item1.01, Price Protection Agreement and Offtake Agreement", "evidence_type": "company regulatory filing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-07-10", "source_id": "src-e8097d62daac" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "$110/kg NdPr benchmark floor is a transaction price term, not a program-wide subsidy amount or current balance.", "source": { "title": "MP Materials July 2025 Form8-K", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801368/000119312525157310/d43796d8k.htm", "locator": "Item1.01, Price Protection Agreement and Offtake Agreement", "evidence_type": "company regulatory filing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-07-10", "source_id": "src-e8097d62daac" }, "kind": "price-protection contract term", "period": "July 2025" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "New§ 4817(g)–(j) activities cannot use funds made available before December 18, 2025; the earlier MP deal cannot demonstrate use of those later powers.", "source": { "title": "Public Law119-60 FY 2026 NDAA", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 867(b)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the filed price-protection transaction", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801368/000119312525157310/d43796d8k.htm", "type": "transaction disclosure", "scope": "Illustrates price support; does not establish use of the later IBF statute." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "No linkage to section 4817(h)(4) or (i)(3) was established. The agreement predates those newly enacted provisions.", "source": { "title": "Public Law119-60 FY 2026 NDAA", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 867; compared with July 9, 2025 filed transaction", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Need a post-enactment award citing§ 4817(h)(4)/(i)(3), required findings, lawful funds and actual administering office." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "MP Materials July 2025 Form8-K", "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801368/000119312525157310/d43796d8k.htm", "locator": "Item1.01, Price Protection Agreement and Offtake Agreement", "evidence_type": "company regulatory filing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-07-10", "source_id": "src-e8097d62daac" }, { "title": "Public Law119-60 FY 2026 NDAA", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 867, new10 USC4817(g)–(j) and fund-vintage restriction", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "WIRE program", "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire.html", "locator": "Mission; Industrial Base Fund/DPA; consortium execution routes", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-370204e35103", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "Searched businessdefense.gov/war.gov and exact4817+market-manipulation terms; reviewed MP’s SEC-filed transaction and compared its date with§ 867." }, { "record_id": "IND-15", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "A recent closed WIRE mineral call demonstrates that offtake structures are contemplated, but its explicit purchase-commitment citation is DPA § 4533, not proof of an executed IBF § 4817(i) transaction.", "routes": [ { "program": "DIBC critical-minerals RPP-CM-26-02 (closed call)", "administering_office": "IBP/WIRE program; Washington Headquarters Services Acquisition Directorate (WHS/AD) administers the DIBC agreement with ATI; project-specific current assignment must be verified.", "audience": "DIBC members with domestic critical-mineral projects; this call covered indium, magnesium, manganese and titanium.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "At least one named mineral and one area of interest; DPA proposals must establish defense essentiality, industry-capacity shortfall and cost-effectiveness.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp2–4, §§ 1.1.2.1.2 and 2.0", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Active SAM registration and a favorable responsibility determination are required; suspended/debarred firms are excluded.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp11–12, §§ 7.1–7.2", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "The IBF purchase authority has its own defense-interest and above-market/anticipated-loss findings and generally a ten-year limit.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 867(a), added § 4817(i)(1)–(3)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Closed-call procedure: submit the mandatory quad chart through ATI AMP; only invited applicants proceed to an execution plan, price package and environmental-assessment questionnaire.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp5–7, § 3", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Only an Agreements Officer can bind the government; instrument and terms are negotiated, not selected unilaterally by an applicant.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 5.4", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "status": { "label": "Closed — historical process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Deadline was September 17, 2026 at noon Eastern; this call is no longer an open intake.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p1, RPP Closes", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The RPP contemplates guaranteed-price offtake and explicitly identifies § 4533 purchase commitments; no committed amount is stated.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, "kind": "potential instrument, not award or balance", "period": "RPP released August 21, 2026" }, { "text": "New IBF(g)–(j) activities cannot use funds made available before December 18, 2025.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 867(b)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, "kind": "fund-vintage restriction", "period": "Post-enactment funding only" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Section 6 lists possible financial instruments; it does not establish that one was funded, delegated, or awarded. The primary contemplated project route is a research or prototype OT.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p3 § 1.3 and p11 § 6.1", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the closed mineral call", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "type": "closed solicitation", "scope": "Reference process only; not an open application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "This is practical offtake process context, but § 6 does not identify the new IBF § 4817(i) authority. DPA and IBF purchase powers must remain separate.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1; p3, § 1.3", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Find an IBF-specific offtake solicitation/award and funding-vintage citation before claiming this instrument is operational.", "Call-level pricing discussion does not replace the IBF above-market/loss findings, appropriation checks or current assignment verification." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp1–12; released August 21, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, { "title": "DIBC solicitations", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/solicitations-2/", "locator": "Active Solicitations; Upcoming Solicitations; Recent Past Solicitations; updated September 17, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04" }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ce3c94435f8f" }, { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Sections 803, 862, 867", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "WIRE — Industrial Base Policy", "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire.html", "locator": "What We Do; focus areas", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-370204e35103", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment", "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire/ibas.html", "locator": "IBAS mission; Critical Materials; Cornerstone OTA", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4d91d3762382", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-16", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "A documented WIRE/IBAS mineral process covers capital infrastructure and environmental review. Exact exercise of the newly enacted IBF construction authority is not established by the call alone.", "routes": [ { "program": "DIBC critical-minerals RPP-CM-26-02 (closed call)", "administering_office": "IBP/WIRE program; Washington Headquarters Services Acquisition Directorate (WHS/AD) administers the DIBC agreement with ATI; project-specific current assignment must be verified.", "audience": "DIBC members with domestic critical-mineral projects; this call covered indium, magnesium, manganese and titanium.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "IBAS projects must support at least one stated workforce/manufacturing/emerging-sector/supply-risk/partnership priority; mineral projects also need a listed commodity and area of interest.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp2–4, §§ 1.1.2.1.1,2.0", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Section 4817(i)(4) separately requires a defense-interest determination for private or government industrial facility construction/improvement.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 867(a), added § 4817(i)(4)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Closed-call procedure: submit the mandatory quad chart through ATI AMP; only invited applicants proceed to an execution plan, price package and environmental-assessment questionnaire.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp5–7, § 3", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Only an Agreements Officer can bind the government; instrument and terms are negotiated, not selected unilaterally by an applicant.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 5.4", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Invited phase 2 submissions include an environmental questionnaire; government negotiations address project execution and terms.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp6–7 § 3; p11 § 5.4", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "status": { "label": "Closed — historical process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Deadline was September 17, 2026 at noon Eastern; this call is no longer an open intake.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p1, RPP Closes", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The new facility authority cannot use money made available before December 18, 2025; a project allocation was not verified.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 867(b)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, "kind": "fund-vintage restriction", "period": "New § 4817(g)–(j) activities" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Section 6 lists possible financial instruments; it does not establish that one was funded, delegated, or awarded. The primary contemplated project route is a research or prototype OT.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p3 § 1.3 and p11 § 6.1", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the closed mineral call", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "type": "closed solicitation", "scope": "Reference process only; not an open application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The RPP names IBAS and includes facility-related work, but does not identify § 4817(i)(4) as the authority for a specific construction or improvement award.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1; p3, § 1.3", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Verify property ownership, construction/improvement authority, environmental approvals, approving official and post-enactment funds for the proposed site.", "No award was located expressly identifying § 4817(i)(4)." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Sections 803, 862, 867", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp1–12; released August 21, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, { "title": "DIBC solicitations", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/solicitations-2/", "locator": "Active Solicitations; Upcoming Solicitations; Recent Past Solicitations; updated September 17, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04" }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ce3c94435f8f" }, { "title": "WIRE — Industrial Base Policy", "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire.html", "locator": "What We Do; focus areas", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-370204e35103", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment", "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire/ibas.html", "locator": "IBAS mission; Critical Materials; Cornerstone OTA", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4d91d3762382", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-17", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "The related WIRE qualification process is documented, while the new substitute/reserve/stockpile-transfer mechanism still needs a specific legal and transactional link.", "routes": [ { "program": "WIRE mineral qualification/prototype call — related process", "administering_office": "IBP/WIRE; WHS/AD administers DIBC agreement with ATI.", "audience": "Consortium applicants for listed mineral capabilities; not reserve-transfer requesters.", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The call covers named minerals and AOIs, including material qualification, production equipment and supply-chain capability.", "source": { "title": "DIBC critical minerals RPP-CM-26-02", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp3–4,§ 2/AOI6", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-08-21", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The published call used quad-chart screening followed by invited proposal/negotiation; 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IBAS/DPA tests and mineral AOIs", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-08-21", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, { "title": "Public Law119-60 FY 2026 NDAA", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 867, new10 USC4817(g)–(j) and fund-vintage restriction", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-18", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "WIRE program", "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire.html", "locator": "Mission; Industrial Base Fund/DPA; consortium execution routes", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-370204e35103", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "Searched businessdefense.gov for4817+substitutes/reserves; reviewed full mineral RPP and new§ 867text; rejected DLA recycling as proof of separate IBF powers." }, { "record_id": "IND-18", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The pilot’s legal design and near-term termination are confirmed. Related IBAS/Cornerstone activity is real, but no public evidence tied a current credit or third-party equity product to this particular pilot.", "routes": [ { "program": "Cornerstone Other Transaction Authority consortium", "administering_office": "IBAS program manager with Army DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center and Army Contracting Command–Rock Island.", "audience": "Traditional/nontraditional firms, small businesses, academia and other eligible consortium participants.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The government page permits a broad membership base; foreign participants are considered case by case. Membership must be established to answer member opportunity notices.", "source": { "title": "Cornerstone — official Army consortium", "url": "https://cornerstone.army.mil/", "locator": "Membership Eligibility; FAQ", "evidence_type": "published consortium guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-aab0553eecad" } }, { "text": "The pilot supports defense manufacturing and emerging technologies; enumerated activities include SME credit and third-party debt/equity support using applicable underlying authorities.", "source": { "title": "10 USC 4816 — industrial and innovation pilot statutory note", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title10-section4816", "locator": "Statutory note, subsections(a)–(c)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-dfdfb421f530" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Complete the membership form, pass eligibility review, sign/return the Consortium Membership Agreement and await government countersignature; members receive opportunity notices and respond as instructed.", "source": { "title": "Cornerstone — official Army consortium", "url": "https://cornerstone.army.mil/", "locator": "Membership Process; New Membership FAQ", "evidence_type": "published consortium guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-aab0553eecad" } } ], "status": { "label": "Pilot authority time-limited; specific implementation unverified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Statutory pilot terminates December 31, 2026; results briefing due January 31, 2027. 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It does not cite the § 1711 pilot or establish that the pilot’s credit/third-party investment powers have an operating program.", "source": { "title": "Cornerstone — official Army consortium", "url": "https://cornerstone.army.mil/", "locator": "Background/Summary; scope linked to 10 USC 4817", "evidence_type": "published consortium guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-aab0553eecad" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Need implementing designation, actual pilot project/award, credit-law funding and new-award feasibility before December 31, 2026.", "Do not conflate the unrelated 2022 ACMI DPA manufacturing pilot with the § 1711 pilot." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 USC 4816 — industrial and innovation pilot statutory note", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title10-section4816", "locator": "Pilot Program on Strengthening the Defense Industrial and Innovation Base; subsections (a)–(e)", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Official indexed full statutory note read; displayed laws-in-effect September 12, 2026" }, "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-dfdfb421f530" }, { "title": "Cornerstone — official Army consortium", "url": "https://cornerstone.army.mil/", "locator": "Background/Summary; Membership Eligibility; Membership Process; FAQ; Contact", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04" }, "evidence_type": "published consortium guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-aab0553eecad" }, { "title": "WIRE — Industrial Base Policy", "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire.html", "locator": "What We Do; focus areas", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-370204e35103", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. 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No exact publication date/page number claimed.", "source_id": "src-e1bb68020bf3" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "FY 2025 stockpile recapitalization included$2B appropriation; reported$800M in awarded contracts is distinct from$51M obligated delivery orders.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 2025 History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/FY%202025%20History.pdf", "locator": "Strategic Materials§ 6", "evidence_type": "official annual report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "FY 2025 reporting period; official indexed relevant passages read, full direct PDF403. No exact publication date/page number claimed.", "source_id": "src-e1bb68020bf3" }, "kind": "historical appropriation / contracts / obligations", "period": "FY 2025" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Annual Materials Plan values are maximum anticipated quantities, not commitments to buy or sell; later statute/amendments govern disposal.", "source": { "title": "DLA Annual Materials Plan archive", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Reports/Annual-Materials-Plan-Archive/", "locator": "Annual Materials Plan description", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text read; direct DLA retrieval restrictions apply.", "source_id": "src-593e2772194f" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DLA offers and materials-plan resources", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Offers/", "type": "procurement/sales discovery", "scope": "A specific current solicitation controls; an annual plan is not an order." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DLA explicitly operates the National Defense Stockpile; its program links to the Stock Piling Act. The 2025 history demonstrates actual transactions, not merely statutory permission.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 2025 History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/FY%202025%20History.pdf", "locator": "Strategic Materials§§ 5–6", "evidence_type": "official annual report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "FY 2025 reporting period; official indexed relevant passages read, full direct PDF403. No exact publication date/page number claimed.", "source_id": "src-e1bb68020bf3" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current open material-specific solicitations and remaining balances were not certified; direct DLA403 prevents complete latest attachment inspection.", "Use the current corpus’s FY 26§ 1411 disposal amendments, not historical45-day rules in older DLA Act reproductions." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials offers", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Offers/", "locator": "Acquisition; Sales; Annual Materials Plan; BAA", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official search-indexed text read; direct retrieval blockedHTTP403.", "source_id": "src-560f16a3a1ae" }, { "title": "DLA Annual Materials Plan archive", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Reports/Annual-Materials-Plan-Archive/", "locator": "Annual Materials Plan description", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text read; direct DLA retrieval restrictions apply.", "source_id": "src-593e2772194f" }, { "title": "DLA mineral supplier pathway", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4235874/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-critical-minerals/", "locator": "Search Solicitations; Assemble and Submit Offer Package; Receiving/Invoice", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-12-12", "retrieval_note": "Page says revised December 11, 2025; full official indexed process text read; direct request403.", "source_id": "src-562d8fffaf0c" }, { "title": "DLA FY 2025 History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/FY%202025%20History.pdf", "locator": "Strategic Materials sections(4)R&D,(5)Sales,(6)Acquisition,(7)Germanium recovery", "evidence_type": "official annual report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "FY 2025 reporting period; official indexed relevant passages read, full direct PDF403. No exact publication date/page number claimed.", "source_id": "src-e1bb68020bf3" } ], "research_scope": "Searched DLAoffers, currentAMP archive and annualhistory; read official indexed acquisition/sales data and supplier workflow." }, { "record_id": "IND-20", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "The research route is explicitly linked to section 98g, and official DLA reports document actual material recovery and qualification activity.", "routes": [ { "program": "DLA strategic-material research, qualification and germanium recovery", "administering_office": "DLA Strategic Materials with DLA R&D/Disposition Services; FY 26 BAA identifies DCSO-C3 contracting.", "audience": "Research suppliers and qualifying recovery/processing contractors; federal surplus custodians for recovery transfers.", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Research must match NDS needs and BAA technical scope; full proposals follow invitation after white-paper review.", "source": { "title": "DLA research supplier pathway", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4345111/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-research-development/", "locator": "White Paper; Full Proposal", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-06-02", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed process read; direct request403.", "source_id": "src-409f30f453aa" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Submit the BAA-specific whitepaper through its contracting channel; if invited, follow full technical/cost proposal terms.", "source": { "title": "DLA research supplier pathway", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4345111/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-research-development/", "locator": "White Paper; Full Proposal; Evaluation", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-06-02", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed process read; direct request403.", "source_id": "src-409f30f453aa" } }, { "text": "DLA documents federal excess thermal-camera/sight identification and transfer for germanium recovery, rather than indiscriminate public collection.", "source": { "title": "DLA eyes strategic materials recapture from excess property", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/About-DLA/News/News-Article-View/Article/4224563/dla-eyes-strategic-materials-recapture-from-excess-property/", "locator": "RobinsAFB126 excess thermal cameras/sights; germanium recovery collaboration", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "2025 dated event discussed; exact publication date not recovered; official indexed text read.", "source_id": "src-d1be53693a52" } } ], "status": { "label": "Documented research/recovery activity", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The FY 2025 history reports seven R&D investments and 4,396 kg of germanium delivered to date. Projected future deliveries are not counted as completed.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 2025 History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/FY%202025%20History.pdf", "locator": "Strategic Materials sections(4)R&D,(5)Sales,(6)Acquisition,(7)Germanium recovery", "evidence_type": "official annual report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "FY 2025 reporting period; official indexed relevant passages read, full direct PDF403. No exact publication date/page number claimed.", "source_id": "src-e1bb68020bf3" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "SevenFY25research investments totaled$5M. This is historical allocation/use, not remaining2026money.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 2025 History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/FY%202025%20History.pdf", "locator": "Strategic Materials§ 4", "evidence_type": "official annual report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "FY 2025 reporting period; official indexed relevant passages read, full direct PDF403. No exact publication date/page number claimed.", "source_id": "src-e1bb68020bf3" }, "kind": "historical research investments", "period": "FY 2025" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The indexedFY26BAA explicitly cites50 USC98g; currentdeadline/fullamendments were blocked by403 and remain unchecked.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 26 Research and Qualification BAA SP800026BBAA0", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Strategic%20Materials/Solicitation%20Docs/FY26_BasicQualBAA_SP800026BBAA0.pdf?ver=LNk_vdLFJb3yndDg0AvWWg%3D%3D", "locator": "Opening page,50 USC98g and DCSO-C3 contracting office", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed opening read; fullPDF403; no verified current closing date.", "source_id": "src-e504f71ca66b" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DLA R&D supplier pathway", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4345111/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-research-development/", "type": "research solicitation process", "scope": "Follow a liveBAA; not a municipal recycling or general mining-grant portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The BAA explicitly implements research under section 98g. News reports and program history demonstrate recovery operations, but do not independently identify every section 98h-6 contract subtype.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 26 Research and Qualification BAA SP800026BBAA0", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Strategic%20Materials/Solicitation%20Docs/FY26_BasicQualBAA_SP800026BBAA0.pdf?ver=LNk_vdLFJb3yndDg0AvWWg%3D%3D", "locator": "Opening page,50 USC98g and DCSO-C3 contracting office", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed opening read; fullPDF403; no verified current closing date.", "source_id": "src-e504f71ca66b" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Do not treat projected germanium deliveries or the former contract’s October 1, 2026 endpoint as verified delivery/completion; current successor contract not checked.", "Exact§ 98h-6recycling contract terms andcurrentFY26BAAamendments remain gaps." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DLA research supplier pathway", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4345111/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-research-development/", "locator": "White Paper; Full Proposal; Evaluation", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-06-02", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed process read; direct request403.", "source_id": "src-409f30f453aa" }, { "title": "DLA FY 26 Research and Qualification BAA SP800026BBAA0", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Strategic%20Materials/Solicitation%20Docs/FY26_BasicQualBAA_SP800026BBAA0.pdf?ver=LNk_vdLFJb3yndDg0AvWWg%3D%3D", "locator": "Opening page,50 USC98g and DCSO-C3 contracting office", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed opening read; fullPDF403; no verified current closing date.", "source_id": "src-e504f71ca66b" }, { "title": "DLA FY 2025 History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/FY%202025%20History.pdf", "locator": "Strategic Materials sections(4)R&D,(5)Sales,(6)Acquisition,(7)Germanium recovery", "evidence_type": "official annual report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "FY 2025 reporting period; official indexed relevant passages read, full direct PDF403. No exact publication date/page number claimed.", "source_id": "src-e1bb68020bf3" }, { "title": "DLA eyes strategic materials recapture from excess property", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/About-DLA/News/News-Article-View/Article/4224563/dla-eyes-strategic-materials-recapture-from-excess-property/", "locator": "RobinsAFB126 excess thermal cameras/sights; germanium recovery collaboration", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "2025 dated event discussed; exact publication date not recovered; official indexed text read.", "source_id": "src-d1be53693a52" } ], "research_scope": "Searched DLA strategic-materials recycling/germanium/qualification; examined FY25history and FY26BAA authority excerpt; official indexed text used where direct403." }, { "record_id": "IND-21", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "Agency history confirms awareness and statutory origin of the material-loan power; no executed loan or current barter award was verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "Stockpile interagency material loan / barter controls", "administering_office": "National Defense Stockpile Manager and DLA Strategic Materials; DOE or Military Department recipient for statutory material loans.", "audience": "Government material borrowers and authorized stockpile-transaction counterparties, not private cash borrowers.", "relationship_type": "context only", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Material loans require similar/superior return or payment assurance and congressional notice; barter must satisfy stockpile acquisition/disposal conditions.", "source": { "title": "50 U.S.C. § 98e(c),(f)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98e&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "50 U.S.C. § 98e(c),(f)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-feb546990c34" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "A government sponsor must establish statutory eligibility, repayment/material accounting and notice approvals; this is a statutory verification sequence, not a located public application form.", "source": { "title": "50 U.S.C. § 98e(c),(f)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98e&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "50 U.S.C. § 98e(c),(f)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-feb546990c34" } } ], "status": { "label": "Authority recognized; executed loan unverified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "DLA’s FY 2022 history expressly records obtaining statutory authority for stockpile loans to DOE and military departments; it does not identify an executed loan.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 2022 Annual History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/2022AnnualHistory.pdf", "locator": "Printed p. 193, Legislative Program, stockpile loan authority enacted by PL 117-81 § 1412", "evidence_type": "official annual report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "FY 2022 reporting period; official indexed passage read.", "source_id": "src-335d69449090" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The mechanism moves/values material; it is not new private-sector cash lending or a general off-budget fund.", "source": { "title": "50 U.S.C. § 98e(c),(f)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98e&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "50 U.S.C. § 98e(c),(f)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-feb546990c34" }, "kind": "material/accounting mechanism", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Annual plans describing possible barter/disposal do not prove an actual barter transaction occurred.", "source": { "title": "DLA Annual Materials Plan archive", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Reports/Annual-Materials-Plan-Archive/", "locator": "Annual Materials Plan description", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text read; direct DLA retrieval restrictions apply.", "source_id": "src-593e2772194f" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DLA stockpile offers / administrative routing", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Offers/", "type": "program reference", "scope": "No verified open material-loan application; government-to-government mechanism." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DLA’s legislative history explicitly identifies PL 117-81 § 1412 as the source of the loan authority, but evidence of an operating transaction was not located.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 2022 Annual History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/2022AnnualHistory.pdf", "locator": "Printedp193", "evidence_type": "official annual report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "FY 2022 reporting period; official indexed passage read.", "source_id": "src-335d69449090" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Need an executed interagency loan or barter contract, repayment/valuation terms and notice record.", "Search results included oldAMPpotentialbarter quantities and records-retention categories; neither is transaction proof." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "50 U.S.C. § 98e(c),(f)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section98e&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "50 U.S.C. § 98e(c),(f)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-feb546990c34" }, { "title": "DLA FY 2022 Annual History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/2022AnnualHistory.pdf", "locator": "Printed p. 193, Legislative Program, stockpile loan authority enacted by PL 117-81 § 1412", "evidence_type": "official annual report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "FY 2022 reporting period; official indexed passage read.", "source_id": "src-335d69449090" }, { "title": "DLA Annual Materials Plan archive", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Reports/Annual-Materials-Plan-Archive/", "locator": "Annual Materials Plan description", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text read; direct DLA retrieval restrictions apply.", "source_id": "src-593e2772194f" }, { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials offers", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Offers/", "locator": "Acquisition; Sales; Annual Materials Plan; BAA", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official search-indexed text read; direct retrieval blockedHTTP403.", "source_id": "src-560f16a3a1ae" } ], "research_scope": "Searched DLA stockpile loan+DOE, barter+StrategicMaterials, operations reports andFY2022history; found statutory advocacy but no executedloan." }, { "record_id": "IND-22", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "There is a detailed DLA research supplier process and a separate recent WIRE call that expressly covered bankable studies. Neither proves an open DLA § 98h-6 co-funding intake.", "routes": [ { "program": "DLA Strategic Materials R&D / qualification pathway (related, not the exact study mechanism)", "administering_office": "DLA Strategic Materials; FY 26 BAA identifies Defense Contracting Services Office C3, Fort Belvoir.", "audience": "Research/qualification suppliers aligned with National Defense Stockpile needs.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The § 98h-6 study authority covers strategic-material projects located in, owned and controlled by reliable sources; federal study share cannot exceed50%.", "source": { "title": "50 USC 98h-6 — official 2024 edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/pdf/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5-subchapIII-sec98h-6.pdf", "locator": "§ 98h-6(a)(5)", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ec18703f486a" } }, { "text": "DLA’s published research route evaluates scientific/technical merit, mission relevance and cost; proposal and format terms come from the specific BAA.", "source": { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials Supplier Pathway: Research & Development", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4345111/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-research-development/", "locator": "White Paper; Evaluation", "evidence_type": "official news or announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-409f30f453aa" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Locate the live BAA, submit the requested white paper, then provide a full proposal only if invited; use the BAA’s contracting submission channel.", "source": { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials Supplier Pathway: Research & Development", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4345111/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-research-development/", "locator": "White Paper; Full Proposal", "evidence_type": "official news or announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-409f30f453aa" } }, { "text": "For the separate § 98h-6 mechanism, verify Annual Materials and Operations Plan inclusion and adequate Stockpile Transaction Fund resources.", "source": { "title": "50 USC 98h-6 — official 2024 edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/pdf/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5-subchapIII-sec98h-6.pdf", "locator": "§ 98h-6(c)–(d)", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ec18703f486a" } } ], "status": { "label": "Related process published; exact intake unverified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "DLA’s June 2, 2026 supplier guidance is documented. SP800026BBAA0 is a FY 26 research/qualification BAA; live deadlines/amendments could not be confirmed because direct DLA access was blocked.", "source": { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials Supplier Pathway: Research & Development", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4345111/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-research-development/", "locator": "Revised June 2, 2026; White Paper; Full Proposal; Evaluation", "evidence_type": "official news or announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-409f30f453aa" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "FY 25 history reports seven research investments totaling$5 million after41 proposals. These are historical R&D figures, not a § 98h-6 study allocation.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 2025 History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/FY%202025%20History.pdf", "locator": "DLA Strategic Materials narrative: FY 25 research investments and stockpile recapitalization", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e1bb68020bf3" }, "kind": "historical research investment", "period": "FY 2025" }, { "text": "Study agreements cap federal contribution at 50% and federal liability at provided funding; no obligation to purchase output.", "source": { "title": "50 USC 98h-6 — official 2024 edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/pdf/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5-subchapIII-sec98h-6.pdf", "locator": "§ 98h-6(a)(5)", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ec18703f486a" }, "kind": "statutory co-funding limit", "period": "Authority conditions" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The FY 26 research BAA cites50 USC 98g, not the § 98h-6(a)(5) bankable-study power; do not collapse the two.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 26 National Defense Stockpile Research and Qualification BAA SP800026BBAA0", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Strategic%20Materials/Solicitation%20Docs/FY26_BasicQualBAA_SP800026BBAA0.pdf?ver=LNk_vdLFJb3yndDg0AvWWg%3D%3D", "locator": "Opening/background authority text", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e504f71ca66b" } }, { "text": "Project loans or debt purchases require separate congressional authorization and presidential determination under DPA; a funded study is not financing approval.", "source": { "title": "50 USC 98h-6 — official 2024 edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/pdf/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5-subchapIII-sec98h-6.pdf", "locator": "§ 98h-6(b)(2)", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ec18703f486a" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DLA research supplier process", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4345111/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-research-development/", "type": "research process / solicitation discovery", "scope": "Not a verified § 98h-6 study grant application. Check live SAM BAA and amendments." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DLA’s research pathway is useful adjacent routing, not proof of a § 98h-6 bankable-study co-funding program.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 26 National Defense Stockpile Research and Qualification BAA SP800026BBAA0", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Strategic%20Materials/Solicitation%20Docs/FY26_BasicQualBAA_SP800026BBAA0.pdf?ver=LNk_vdLFJb3yndDg0AvWWg%3D%3D", "locator": "50 USC 98g authority statement; compared with § 98h-6(a)(5)", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e504f71ca66b" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" }, { "program": "DIBC critical-minerals RPP-CM-26-02 (closed call)", "administering_office": "IBP/WIRE program; Washington Headquarters Services Acquisition Directorate (WHS/AD) administers the DIBC agreement with ATI; project-specific current assignment must be verified.", "audience": "DIBC members with domestic critical-mineral projects; this call covered indium, magnesium, manganese and titanium.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "AOI1 studies must support one of indium, magnesium, manganese or titanium in the closed2026 call.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp3–4", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Closed-call procedure: submit the mandatory quad chart through ATI AMP; only invited applicants proceed to an execution plan, price package and environmental-assessment questionnaire.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp5–7, § 3", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, { "text": "Only an Agreements Officer can bind the government; instrument and terms are negotiated, not selected unilaterally by an applicant.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 5.4", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "status": { "label": "Closed — historical process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Deadline was September 17, 2026 at noon Eastern; this call is no longer an open intake.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p1, RPP Closes", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Bankable/definitive feasibility studies are expressly included in AOI1; no project award amount stated.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, "kind": "potential instrument, not award or balance", "period": "RPP released August 21, 2026" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Section 6 lists possible financial instruments; it does not establish that one was funded, delegated, or awarded. The primary contemplated project route is a research or prototype OT.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p3 § 1.3 and p11 § 6.1", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read the closed mineral call", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "type": "closed solicitation", "scope": "Reference process only; not an open application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "This closed WIRE/DPA/IBAS alternative expressly includes bankable studies, but is not implementation of DLA’s § 98h-6 authority.", "source": { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF p11, § 6.1; p3, § 1.3", "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No study award/solicitation expressly citing § 98h-6(a)(5), current study allocation or selected project was verified.", "DLA full PDF/latest SAM amendments remain retrieval gaps; indexed official evidence is labeled accordingly." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "50 USC 98h-6 — official 2024 edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/pdf/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5-subchapIII-sec98h-6.pdf", "locator": "Subsections (a)(5), (b), (c), (d), (e)", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Official text read; historical edition, not a later-law certification" }, "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ec18703f486a" }, { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials Supplier Pathway: Research & Development", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4345111/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-research-development/", "locator": "Revised June 2, 2026; White Paper; Full Proposal; Evaluation", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Official search-indexed process text read; direct retrieval blocked HTTP403", "http_status": 403 }, "evidence_type": "official news or announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-409f30f453aa" }, { "title": "DLA FY 26 National Defense Stockpile Research and Qualification BAA SP800026BBAA0", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Strategic%20Materials/Solicitation%20Docs/FY26_BasicQualBAA_SP800026BBAA0.pdf?ver=LNk_vdLFJb3yndDg0AvWWg%3D%3D", "locator": "Opening page: DCSO-C3 contracting office and 50 USC 98g authority", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Official indexed opening text read; PDF direct retrieval HTTP403; full terms and live amendments not verified", "http_status": 403 }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e504f71ca66b" }, { "title": "DLA FY 2025 History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/FY%202025%20History.pdf", "locator": "DLA Strategic Materials narrative: FY 25 research investments and stockpile recapitalization", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Official search-indexed relevant passages read; PDF direct retrieval HTTP403; printed page number not recovered", "http_status": 403 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e1bb68020bf3" }, { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials offers", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Offers/", "locator": "Acquisition; Annual Materials Plan; Broad Agency Announcement", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Official search-indexed content read; direct retrieval blocked HTTP403", "http_status": 403 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-560f16a3a1ae" }, { "title": "DIBC RPP-CM-26-02 — Domestic Processing Capabilities of Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Critical-Minerals-RPP_CM-26-02-Final.pdf", "locator": "PDF pp1–12; released August 21, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2da646e1dd66" }, { "title": "DIBC solicitations", "url": "https://www.dibconsortium.org/solicitations-2/", "locator": "Active Solicitations; Upcoming Solicitations; Recent Past Solicitations; updated September 17, 2026", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04" }, "evidence_type": "solicitation or program notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ce3c94435f8f" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-23", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "DLA publishes a complete commodity-supplier workflow and reports real stockpile contract activity. Exact statutory multiyear/advance-procurement use remains to be linked to a specific notice or award.", "routes": [ { "program": "DLA Strategic Materials commodity acquisition pathway", "administering_office": "DLA Strategic Materials acquisition/materials-management functions; the contracting officer named in each SAM notice executes that procurement.", "audience": "Strategic/critical-material suppliers able to meet solicitation-specific source, quality and delivery requirements.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Follow the notice’s commodity specifications, quantity, delivery/packaging requirements and standards; CAGE and required representations/certifications belong in the offer.", "source": { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials Supplier Pathway: Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4235874/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-critical-minerals/", "locator": "Requirements; Assemble and Submit Offer Package", "evidence_type": "official news or announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-562d8fffaf0c" } }, { "text": "The § 98e-2 multiyear authority separately requires U.S. processing by qualifying domestic sources and compliance with10 USC 3501.", "source": { "title": "50 USC 98e-2 — official 2024 edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/pdf/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5-subchapIII-sec98e-2.pdf", "locator": "§ 98e-2(a)", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-d2dcd333cf38" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Search SAM for Strategic Materials activity SP8000; inspect amendments and SectionsB/L/M or commercial equivalents.", "source": { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials offers", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Offers/", "locator": "Acquisition; BAA discovery", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-560f16a3a1ae" } }, { "text": "Assemble requested pricing, technical information, SF1449, performance references and product analysis/quality attachments; send to the contracting POC specified by that solicitation and confirm receipt.", "source": { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials Supplier Pathway: Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4235874/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-critical-minerals/", "locator": "Assemble and Submit Offer Package", "evidence_type": "official news or announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-562d8fffaf0c" } }, { "text": "After award, follow lot sampling/testing and acceptance requirements; receiving reports and invoices use WAWF/PIEE as required.", "source": { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials Supplier Pathway: Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4235874/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-critical-minerals/", "locator": "Sampling and Testing; Invoicing", "evidence_type": "official news or announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-562d8fffaf0c" } } ], "status": { "label": "Operating procurement process; specific multiyear opportunity unverified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The public pathway was revised December 11, 2025. This review verifies the procurement process, not a currently open § 98e-2 solicitation.", "source": { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials Supplier Pathway: Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4235874/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-critical-minerals/", "locator": "Revised December 11, 2025; Search Solicitations; Assemble and Submit Offer Package; Sampling and Testing", "evidence_type": "official news or announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-562d8fffaf0c" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "FY 25 DLA history distinguishes eight contract awards totaling$800 million from$51 million in obligated delivery orders. Do not present the contract total as cash obligated or a § 98e-2 allocation.", "source": { "title": "DLA FY 2025 History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/FY%202025%20History.pdf", "locator": "DLA Strategic Materials narrative: FY 25 research investments and stockpile recapitalization", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e1bb68020bf3" }, "kind": "historical contracts versus obligations", "period": "FY 2025" }, { "text": "Section 98e-2 uses discretionary Stockpile Transaction Fund appropriations made available after December 22, 2023; later-year payments remain subject to appropriations.", "source": { "title": "50 USC 98e-2 — official 2024 edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/pdf/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5-subchapIII-sec98e-2.pdf", "locator": "§ 98e-2(b)–(c)", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-d2dcd333cf38" }, "kind": "statutory funding source/vintage", "period": "Post-December 22, 2023" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Annual Materials Plan acquisition quantities are ceilings/plans, not a promise that procurement will occur.", "source": { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials offers", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Offers/", "locator": "Annual Materials Plan", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-560f16a3a1ae" } }, { "text": "A stockpile IDIQ with multiple years is not automatically a statutory multiyear procurement under § 98e-2/§ 3501. Exact authority must be established from the contract/notice.", "source": { "title": "50 USC 98e-2 — official 2024 edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/pdf/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5-subchapIII-sec98e-2.pdf", "locator": "§ 98e-2(a); inference distinguishing contract form from statutory authority", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-d2dcd333cf38" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DLA mineral supplier pathway", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4235874/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-critical-minerals/", "type": "vendor process / solicitation discovery", "scope": "Find and answer a specific live commodity solicitation; not a financing application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The supplier pathway establishes DLA acquisition execution; it does not certify that a particular mineral acquisition uses § 98e-2 rather than other stockpile authorities.", "source": { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials Supplier Pathway: Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4235874/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-critical-minerals/", "locator": "Search Solicitations; Offer Package", "evidence_type": "official news or announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-562d8fffaf0c" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Locate a current § 98e-2/§ 3501 notice/award, source determination, cancellation/future-year funding terms and applicable FY 27CR restriction analysis.", "Direct DLA retrieval was403; official indexed guidance/history is usable research evidence but not verification of all current amendments." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials Supplier Pathway: Critical Minerals", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Small-Business/Resource-Center/Training-Resources/Details/Article/4235874/dla-strategic-materials-supplier-pathway-critical-minerals/", "locator": "Revised December 11, 2025; Search Solicitations; Assemble and Submit Offer Package; Sampling and Testing", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Official search-indexed full process text read; direct retrieval blocked HTTP403", "http_status": 403 }, "evidence_type": "official news or announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-562d8fffaf0c" }, { "title": "DLA Strategic Materials offers", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Strategic-Materials/Offers/", "locator": "Acquisition; Annual Materials Plan; Broad Agency Announcement", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Official search-indexed content read; direct retrieval blocked HTTP403", "http_status": 403 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-560f16a3a1ae" }, { "title": "DLA FY 2025 History", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Headquarters/History/FY%202025%20History.pdf", "locator": "DLA Strategic Materials narrative: FY 25 research investments and stockpile recapitalization", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Official search-indexed relevant passages read; PDF direct retrieval HTTP403; printed page number not recovered", "http_status": 403 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e1bb68020bf3" }, { "title": "50 USC 98e-2 — official 2024 edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/pdf/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5-subchapIII-sec98e-2.pdf", "locator": "Subsections (a)–(c)", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Official source already read in current corpus; historical edition, not a later-law certification" }, "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-d2dcd333cf38" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-24", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Working-capital funds are customer-funded government production accounts, not private-capital awards; CCAD documents current use of the Army model.", "routes": [ { "program": "Defense and Army Working Capital Fund operations", "administering_office": "Component working-capital activity and component comptroller; DoD Comptroller budget oversight", "audience": "Government customers and statutorily authorized reimbursable customers", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Customers place funded orders for the supplying activity’s products or services.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B Chapter 9, August 2022", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/imr/mc/Downloads/Volume_02b.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 9, printed p.9-6, §§ 1.1–1.3", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed Chapter 9 passage inspected; separate current chapter PDF returned HTTP 403.", "source_id": "src-3f8c70c21bd1" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Identify the supplying activity, define the requirement and fund the reimbursable order through the customer’s authorized account.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B Chapter 9, August 2022", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/imr/mc/Downloads/Volume_02b.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 9, printed p.9-6, §§ 1.1–1.3", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed Chapter 9 passage inspected; separate current chapter PDF returned HTTP 403.", "source_id": "src-3f8c70c21bd1" } } ], "status": { "label": "Operating model documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "CCAD describes continued revolving-fund operations and rates aimed at breaking even.", "source": { "title": "CCAD opens doors to Coastal Bend Industry Leaders at Inaugural Industry Days event", "url": "https://www.army.mil/article-amp/293886/ccad_opens_doors_to_coastal_bend_industry_leaders_at_inaugural_industry_days_event", "locator": "Working Capital Fund paragraphs", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-14", "source_id": "src-71f45430b0fc" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Sales revenue reimburses production costs; stabilized prices seek long-run break-even.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B Chapter 9, August 2022", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/imr/mc/Downloads/Volume_02b.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 9, printed p.9-6, §§ 1.1–1.3", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed Chapter 9 passage inspected; separate current chapter PDF returned HTTP 403.", "source_id": "src-3f8c70c21bd1" }, "kind": "revolving-fund reimbursements", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "A revolving account does not remove the customer’s appropriation or statutory-order restrictions.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2208", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2208&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2208", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-df896eec998d" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read working-capital budget rules", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/imr/mc/Downloads/Volume_02b.pdf", "type": "government financial process", "scope": "Budget and reimbursable-order framework; not an external grant or loan application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "FMR Chapter 9 § 1.2 explicitly identifies 10 USC 2208 as revolving-fund authority.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B Chapter 9, August 2022", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/imr/mc/Downloads/Volume_02b.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 9, printed p.9-6, §§ 1.1–1.3", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed Chapter 9 passage inspected; separate current chapter PDF returned HTTP 403.", "source_id": "src-3f8c70c21bd1" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No current activity-specific charter, cash position or project allocation was obtained; § 2208(u) construction availability is not inferred from general WCF operations." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2208", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2208&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2208", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-df896eec998d" }, { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B Chapter 9, August 2022", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/imr/mc/Downloads/Volume_02b.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 9, printed p.9-6, §§ 1.1–1.3", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed Chapter 9 passage inspected; separate current chapter PDF returned HTTP 403. Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications.", "source_id": "src-3f8c70c21bd1" }, { "title": "CCAD opens doors to Coastal Bend Industry Leaders at Inaugural Industry Days event", "url": "https://www.army.mil/article-amp/293886/ccad_opens_doors_to_coastal_bend_industry_leaders_at_inaugural_industry_days_event", "locator": "Paragraphs on revolving fund, direct-sales partnerships, and § 2474 OEM subcontracts", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-14", "source_id": "src-71f45430b0fc" } ], "research_scope": "Read § 2208 corpus, FMR Chapter 9 indexed passage and July 2026 CCAD account; current standalone FMR PDF denied retrieval." }, { "record_id": "IND-25", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Depot public-private partnerships are operating arrangements, with exact § 2474 use publicly documented at Corpus Christi Army Depot.", "routes": [ { "program": "CITE public-private partnerships", "administering_office": "Designated depot or arsenal partnership office; component product-support officials", "audience": "Private industry seeking qualifying work-sharing or use of CITE capability", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Letterkenny’s CITE designations cover air-defense/tactical-missile ground support and mobile electric power.", "source": { "title": "Letterkenny Army Depot: Partnering", "url": "https://www.letterkenny.army.mil/Want-to-do-business/Partnering/", "locator": "Statutory authorities: 10 USC 2474, 7544 and 2208(j)", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-5ceddd1aec57" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Develop a governing contract and partnership agreement, with legal, financial and contracting review and separately tracked results.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 4151.21 Public-Private Partnerships for Product Support, Change 4", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/415121p.pdf", "locator": "§§ 3.7–3.8", "evidence_type": "official implementing instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-07-31", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-81ee1b92da13" } } ], "status": { "label": "Operating partnerships reported", "as_of": "2026-07-14", "text": "CCAD reported OEM subcontracting and existing § 2474 partnerships in July 2026.", "source": { "title": "CCAD opens doors to Coastal Bend Industry Leaders at Inaugural Industry Days event", "url": "https://www.army.mil/article-amp/293886/ccad_opens_doors_to_coastal_bend_industry_leaders_at_inaugural_industry_days_event", "locator": "Paragraphs on revolving fund, direct-sales partnerships, and § 2474 OEM subcontracts", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-14", "source_id": "src-71f45430b0fc" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Private reimbursements and authorized property consideration accrue as permitted by the governing statute.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 4151.21 Public-Private Partnerships for Product Support, Change 4", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/415121p.pdf", "locator": "§ 3.7", "evidence_type": "official implementing instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-07-31", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-81ee1b92da13" }, "kind": "reimbursable partnership revenue", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "CITE use must preserve military readiness; core and public/private workload constraints remain.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2474", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2474&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2474", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a6849c67bc63" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Explore Letterkenny partnerships", "url": "https://www.letterkenny.army.mil/Want-to-do-business/Partnering/", "type": "program information", "scope": "Depot-specific CITE capabilities and authorities; not a department-wide award portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The CCAD report expressly identifies 10 USC 2474; it is not merely a topical manufacturing example.", "source": { "title": "CCAD opens doors to Coastal Bend Industry Leaders at Inaugural Industry Days event", "url": "https://www.army.mil/article-amp/293886/ccad_opens_doors_to_coastal_bend_industry_leaders_at_inaugural_industry_days_event", "locator": "Paragraphs on revolving fund, direct-sales partnerships, and § 2474 OEM subcontracts", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-14", "source_id": "src-71f45430b0fc" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Individual negotiated terms, current capacity and project acceptance must be obtained from the relevant depot; no blanket open solicitation established." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2474", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2474&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2474", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a6849c67bc63" }, { "title": "Letterkenny Army Depot: Partnering", "url": "https://www.letterkenny.army.mil/Want-to-do-business/Partnering/", "locator": "Statutory authorities: 10 USC 2474, 7544 and 2208(j)", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-5ceddd1aec57" }, { "title": "DoDI 4151.21 Public-Private Partnerships for Product Support, Change 4", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/415121p.pdf", "locator": "Section 3, §§ 3.7–3.10, printed p.7", "evidence_type": "official implementing instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-07-31", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-81ee1b92da13" }, { "title": "CCAD opens doors to Coastal Bend Industry Leaders at Inaugural Industry Days event", "url": "https://www.army.mil/article-amp/293886/ccad_opens_doors_to_coastal_bend_industry_leaders_at_inaugural_industry_days_event", "locator": "Paragraphs on revolving fund, direct-sales partnerships, and § 2474 OEM subcontracts", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-14", "source_id": "src-71f45430b0fc" } ], "research_scope": "Read CITE corpus, current Letterkenny authority list, DoDI partnership procedures and the July 2026 CCAD report." }, { "record_id": "IND-26", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Published depot guidance distinguishes direct-sales authorities; a commercial customer must satisfy the particular statutory route, not simply be interested in spare capacity.", "routes": [ { "program": "Depot and arsenal direct sales", "administering_office": "Selling depot/arsenal business-development office and authorized contracting/legal officials", "audience": "Eligible outside purchasers, including qualifying DoD prime contractors", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Letterkenny describes § 2208(j) sales to a purchaser performing a DoD contract where the contract satisfies public/private-competition or § 2474-objective criteria.", "source": { "title": "Letterkenny Army Depot: Partnering", "url": "https://www.letterkenny.army.mil/Want-to-do-business/Partnering/", "locator": "Statutory authorities: 10 USC 2474, 7544 and 2208(j)", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-5ceddd1aec57" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Identify the sales authority and negotiate the contract; check commercial availability and export-control requirements applicable to that authority.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 4151.21 Public-Private Partnerships for Product Support, Change 4", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/415121p.pdf", "locator": "§ 3.10", "evidence_type": "official implementing instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-07-31", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-81ee1b92da13" } } ], "status": { "label": "Procedure documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "DoDI 4151.21 addresses outside sales; its historical § 4543/4544 references must be read with current § 7543/7544 numbering.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 4151.21 Public-Private Partnerships for Product Support, Change 4", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/415121p.pdf", "locator": "Section 3, §§ 3.7–3.10, printed p.7", "evidence_type": "official implementing instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-07-31", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-81ee1b92da13" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Payments reimburse the supplying facility rather than finance the buyer through a loan.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2563", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2563&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2563", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-be94a4eb0590" }, "kind": "sale/reimbursement", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "§ 2563, § 2208(j), and § 7543 have different eligibility tests; noninterference, cost recovery and indemnification requirements cannot be collapsed into one universal test.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2563", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2563&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2563", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-be94a4eb0590" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read depot sales and partnership authorities", "url": "https://www.letterkenny.army.mil/Want-to-do-business/Partnering/", "type": "program information", "scope": "Start a depot-specific capability/authority assessment; no standing entitlement to purchase." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DoDI § 3.10 names § 2208, § 2563 and former § 4543 among outside-sales authorities.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 4151.21 Public-Private Partnerships for Product Support, Change 4", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/415121p.pdf", "locator": "Section 3, §§ 3.7–3.10, printed p.7", "evidence_type": "official implementing instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-07-31", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-81ee1b92da13" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No executed contract was found that publicly identifies which of the three authorities governed its complete terms; § 2474 examples alone are not proof of § 2563 eligibility." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2563", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2563&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2563", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-be94a4eb0590" }, { "title": "Letterkenny Army Depot: Partnering", "url": "https://www.letterkenny.army.mil/Want-to-do-business/Partnering/", "locator": "Statutory authorities: 10 USC 2474, 7544 and 2208(j)", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-5ceddd1aec57" }, { "title": "DoDI 4151.21 Public-Private Partnerships for Product Support, Change 4", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/415121p.pdf", "locator": "Section 3, §§ 3.7–3.10, printed p.7", "evidence_type": "official implementing instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-07-31", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-81ee1b92da13" } ], "research_scope": "Compared depot published authorities with the current corpus; inspected DoDI § 3.10 and renumbering context, excluding irrelevant private finance programs." }, { "record_id": "IND-27", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "ARMS remains a documented Army facility-reuse program; the FY 2026 budget request supports commercialization of idle GOCO capacity, not a general business subsidy.", "routes": [ { "program": "Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support", "administering_office": "Army Joint Munitions Command and the applicable GOCO facility operator", "audience": "Commercial tenants suited to participating ammunition-plant or Hawthorne facilities", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The program concerns idle or underused GOCO ammunition facilities and Hawthorne Army Depot.", "source": { "title": "Army PB2026 Procurement of Ammunition justification", "url": "https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2026/Discretionary%20Budget/Procurement/Procurement%20of%20Ammunition.pdf", "locator": "June 2025; Volume 1 p.901, P-1 line 42, 4150EP2500 ARMS Initiative", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed P-40 table and narrative inspected; request is not an appropriation.", "source_id": "src-288ddb7a0fec" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Evaluate site availability and negotiate with the responsible facility operator under the ARMS framework.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 7551", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section7551&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 7551", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-9f28d742acc5" } } ], "status": { "label": "Program budget documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "PB2026 requests continued ARMS support; no current tenant-selection deadline was verified.", "source": { "title": "Army PB2026 Procurement of Ammunition justification", "url": "https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2026/Discretionary%20Budget/Procurement/Procurement%20of%20Ammunition.pdf", "locator": "June 2025; Volume 1 p.901, P-1 line 42, 4150EP2500 ARMS Initiative", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed P-40 table and narrative inspected; request is not an appropriation.", "source_id": "src-288ddb7a0fec" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "June 2025 PB2026 requested $3.885 million for ARMS; this is a request, not proof of enacted or unobligated funding.", "source": { "title": "Army PB2026 Procurement of Ammunition justification", "url": "https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2026/Discretionary%20Budget/Procurement/Procurement%20of%20Ammunition.pdf", "locator": "June 2025; Volume 1 p.901, P-1 line 42, 4150EP2500 ARMS Initiative", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed P-40 table and narrative inspected; request is not an appropriation.", "source_id": "src-288ddb7a0fec" }, "kind": "budget request", "period": "FY 2026 request published June 2025" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The special additional 25-year option applied only to contracts entered within the earlier statutory window; it is not a universal new 50-year lease authority.", "source": { "title": "JMC ARMS statute and numbering-change annotation", "url": "https://www.jmc.army.mil/docs/ARMS/ARMS%20Statute%2025-yr%20option%20and%20numbering%20change%206%20Feb%202020.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.4, § 7555 annotation and temporary 25-year extension note", "evidence_type": "official program annotation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "File labels revision 6 February 2020; publication date not established. Indexed passage inspected; direct PDF HTTP 403.", "source_id": "src-29312859b754" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read JMC ARMS facility information", "url": "https://www.jmc.army.mil/thumbnails/pdfs/Brochure_ARMS.pdf", "type": "program information", "scope": "Use the identified installation/operator to investigate space and negotiated terms; brochure is not a current vacancy list." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The Army budget explicitly links ARMS to 10 USC 7551–7555; facility reuse is distinct from the unused guarantee component.", "source": { "title": "Army PB2026 Procurement of Ammunition justification", "url": "https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2026/Discretionary%20Budget/Procurement/Procurement%20of%20Ammunition.pdf", "locator": "June 2025; Volume 1 p.901, P-1 line 42, 4150EP2500 ARMS Initiative", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed P-40 table and narrative inspected; request is not an appropriation.", "source_id": "src-288ddb7a0fec" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current vacancies, operator terms and FY 2026 enacted line-item execution were not independently established." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 7551", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section7551&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 7551", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-9f28d742acc5" }, { "title": "Army PB2026 Procurement of Ammunition justification", "url": "https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2026/Discretionary%20Budget/Procurement/Procurement%20of%20Ammunition.pdf", "locator": "June 2025; Volume 1 p.901, P-1 line 42, 4150EP2500 ARMS Initiative", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed P-40 table and narrative inspected; request is not an appropriation.", "source_id": "src-288ddb7a0fec" }, { "title": "JMC Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support brochure", "url": "https://www.jmc.army.mil/thumbnails/pdfs/Brochure_ARMS.pdf", "locator": "ARMS installation locations and commercial-use description", "evidence_type": "official program brochure", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Undated brochure; historical portfolio figures not treated as current.", "source_id": "src-e19eae9f1539" }, { "title": "JMC ARMS statute and numbering-change annotation", "url": "https://www.jmc.army.mil/docs/ARMS/ARMS%20Statute%2025-yr%20option%20and%20numbering%20change%206%20Feb%202020.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.4, § 7555 annotation and temporary 25-year extension note", "evidence_type": "official program annotation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "File labels revision 6 February 2020; publication date not established. Indexed passage inspected; direct PDF HTTP 403.", "source_id": "src-29312859b754" } ], "research_scope": "Searched JMC ARMS materials and the Army PB2026 procurement book; distinguished commercial-facility support from credit assistance." }, { "record_id": "IND-28", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The § 7555 guarantee remains in the legal record, but JMC’s public ARMS annotation says this component is no longer used.", "routes": [ { "program": "ARMS loan-guarantee authority", "administering_office": "Secretary of the Army; no current originating guarantee office verified", "audience": "Potential eligible ARMS borrowers, only if a funded operating program is established", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The statute limits borrower/project eligibility and requires advance credit-subsidy funding.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 7555", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section7555&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 7555", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-4955895902cc" } } ], "steps": [], "status": { "label": "Agency says component no longer used", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "JMC labels § 7555 as no longer used in ARMS; the document does not establish a later restart.", "source": { "title": "JMC ARMS statute and numbering-change annotation", "url": "https://www.jmc.army.mil/docs/ARMS/ARMS%20Statute%2025-yr%20option%20and%20numbering%20change%206%20Feb%202020.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.4, § 7555 annotation and temporary 25-year extension note", "evidence_type": "official program annotation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "File labels revision 6 February 2020; publication date not established. Indexed passage inspected; direct PDF HTTP 403.", "source_id": "src-29312859b754" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The $20 million borrower limit and $320 million annual aggregate ceiling are statutory caps, not available funding.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 7555", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section7555&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 7555", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-4955895902cc" }, "kind": "statutory ceilings", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The ARMS procurement request finances facility-reuse activities; it does not document loan-guarantee subsidy or an intake process.", "source": { "title": "Army PB2026 Procurement of Ammunition justification", "url": "https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2026/Discretionary%20Budget/Procurement/Procurement%20of%20Ammunition.pdf", "locator": "June 2025; Volume 1 p.901, P-1 line 42, 4150EP2500 ARMS Initiative", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed P-40 table and narrative inspected; request is not an appropriation.", "source_id": "src-288ddb7a0fec" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read JMC’s guarantee-program status annotation", "url": "https://www.jmc.army.mil/docs/ARMS/ARMS%20Statute%2025-yr%20option%20and%20numbering%20change%206%20Feb%202020.pdf", "type": "status reference", "scope": "Evidence that the guarantee component is not being used, not an application route." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "JMC’s annotation names § 7555 specifically, making the nonuse evidence authority-specific.", "source": { "title": "JMC ARMS statute and numbering-change annotation", "url": "https://www.jmc.army.mil/docs/ARMS/ARMS%20Statute%2025-yr%20option%20and%20numbering%20change%206%20Feb%202020.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.4, § 7555 annotation and temporary 25-year extension note", "evidence_type": "official program annotation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "File labels revision 6 February 2020; publication date not established. Indexed passage inspected; direct PDF HTTP 403.", "source_id": "src-29312859b754" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "A later program restart, designated originator and subsidy appropriation were not found in the JMC and budget searches; revalidate before any financing claim." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 7555", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section7555&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 7555", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-4955895902cc" }, { "title": "JMC ARMS statute and numbering-change annotation", "url": "https://www.jmc.army.mil/docs/ARMS/ARMS%20Statute%2025-yr%20option%20and%20numbering%20change%206%20Feb%202020.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.4, § 7555 annotation and temporary 25-year extension note", "evidence_type": "official program annotation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "File labels revision 6 February 2020; publication date not established. Indexed passage inspected; direct PDF HTTP 403.", "source_id": "src-29312859b754" }, { "title": "Army PB2026 Procurement of Ammunition justification", "url": "https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2026/Discretionary%20Budget/Procurement/Procurement%20of%20Ammunition.pdf", "locator": "June 2025; Volume 1 p.901, P-1 line 42, 4150EP2500 ARMS Initiative", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed P-40 table and narrative inspected; request is not an appropriation.", "source_id": "src-288ddb7a0fec" } ], "research_scope": "Read current guarantee law and JMC’s explicit § 7555 annotation; checked PB2026 ARMS funding rather than treating facility-program existence as guarantee availability." }, { "record_id": "IND-29", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Military real-property acquisition has published government real-estate channels; landowners are counterparties to a mission-driven acquisition, not applicants for general capital.", "routes": [ { "program": "Military land acquisition", "administering_office": "Military department real-estate authority; USACE district for supported Army/Air Force requirements", "audience": "Government project sponsors and owners of property sought for an authorized requirement", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Military purpose, authorization, appraisal/title and applicable notice requirements govern the transaction.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2663", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2663&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2663", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-728033fdf360" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "District acquisition staff conduct acquisition planning, title work, negotiations and deed or lease instruments.", "source": { "title": "USACE Mobile District Acquisitions Branch", "url": "https://www.sam.usace.army.mil/Missions/Real-Estate/Acquisitions-Branch/", "locator": "Military acquisition and real-estate outgrant functions; branch contact", "evidence_type": "official office/process page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-c4b66c794889" } } ], "status": { "label": "Office process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "DoDI 4165.71 assigns real-property acquisition responsibilities; USACE publishes military acquisition functions.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 4165.71 Real Property Acquisition, Change 1", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/416571p.pdf", "locator": "§§ 1–2: purpose, delegated responsibilities and scope", "evidence_type": "official implementing instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018-08-31", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-38e285dad006" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Acquisition uses authorized government project funds; this route is not a developer loan.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2663", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2663&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2663", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-728033fdf360" }, "kind": "appropriated acquisition expenditure", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "A district office’s capability does not establish funds, condemnation approval or willingness to buy a particular parcel.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2663", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2663&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2663", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-728033fdf360" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "USACE real-estate mission and contact", "url": "https://www.usace.army.mil/Missions/Real-Estate/", "type": "government office routing", "scope": "Identify the responsible district and customer agency; headquarters is not approval of an acquisition." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "USACE describes the acquisition process but the office page does not assign every transaction to § 2663; the exact legal instrument must be confirmed.", "source": { "title": "USACE Mobile District Acquisitions Branch", "url": "https://www.sam.usace.army.mil/Missions/Real-Estate/Acquisitions-Branch/", "locator": "Military acquisition and real-estate outgrant functions; branch contact", "evidence_type": "official office/process page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-c4b66c794889" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No property-specific acquisition directive, delegation or funded requirement was obtained. Direct retrieval of the detailed DoDI was blocked; indexed purpose/scope was available." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2663", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2663&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2663", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-728033fdf360" }, { "title": "DoDI 4165.71 Real Property Acquisition, Change 1", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/416571p.pdf", "locator": "§§ 1–2: purpose, delegated responsibilities and scope", "evidence_type": "official implementing instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018-08-31", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-38e285dad006" }, { "title": "USACE Mobile District Acquisitions Branch", "url": "https://www.sam.usace.army.mil/Missions/Real-Estate/Acquisitions-Branch/", "locator": "Military acquisition and real-estate outgrant functions; branch contact", "evidence_type": "official office/process page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-c4b66c794889" }, { "title": "USACE Real Estate", "url": "https://www.usace.army.mil/Missions/Real-Estate/", "locator": "Acquisition, management and disposal mission; headquarters contact", "evidence_type": "official office/process page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6a9bd4dd2713" } ], "research_scope": "Searched DoDI4165.71 and USACE military real-estate acquisition pages, including district title/negotiation functions." }, { "record_id": "IND-30", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Air Force enhanced-use leasing has a concrete 2026 § 2667 solicitation example, but its August deadline has passed.", "routes": [ { "program": "Air Force Enhanced Use Lease: Eielson RFLP example", "administering_office": "AFCEC real-estate/EUL office with the 354th Fighter Wing", "audience": "Qualified private or public developers responding to the particular lease competition", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The Eielson call covered four sites totaling 3,967 acres, with developer responsibility for financing, permits and project operations.", "source": { "title": "Air Force to host virtual industry day for Eielson Air Force Base", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4550017/air-force-to-host-virtual-industry-day-for-eielson-air-force-base/", "locator": "RFLP AFCEC-26-R-0009; four sites; 10 USC 2667; August 10 deadline", "evidence_type": "official solicitation announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-20", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-d1776e10d8b4" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The announcement directed proposals under RFLP AFCEC-26-R-0009.", "source": { "title": "Air Force to host virtual industry day for Eielson Air Force Base", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4550017/air-force-to-host-virtual-industry-day-for-eielson-air-force-base/", "locator": "RFLP AFCEC-26-R-0009; four sites; 10 USC 2667; August 10 deadline", "evidence_type": "official solicitation announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-20", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-d1776e10d8b4" } } ], "status": { "label": "Announced deadline passed", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Published deadline was August 10, 2026 at 5 p.m. CST; no later extension or award was verified.", "source": { "title": "Air Force to host virtual industry day for Eielson Air Force Base", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4550017/air-force-to-host-virtual-industry-day-for-eielson-air-force-base/", "locator": "RFLP AFCEC-26-R-0009; four sites; 10 USC 2667; August 10 deadline", "evidence_type": "official solicitation announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-20", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-d1776e10d8b4" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "§ 2667 leasing obtains fair-market-value cash or in-kind consideration; developer financing is not a government loan.", "source": { "title": "Air Force to host virtual industry day for Eielson Air Force Base", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4550017/air-force-to-host-virtual-industry-day-for-eielson-air-force-base/", "locator": "RFLP AFCEC-26-R-0009; four sites; 10 USC 2667; August 10 deadline", "evidence_type": "official solicitation announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-20", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-d1776e10d8b4" }, "kind": "lease consideration/private project finance", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Nonexcess-property, mission, term and excluded-land limits still apply; this is not authority to lease all federal mineral lands.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2667", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2667&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2667", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-1aaae2945d21" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "AFCEC real-estate development and EUL contact", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/Home/EUL/", "type": "program information and office contact", "scope": "Current office discovery and program inquiry. The Eielson August 10, 2026 deadline has passed; this page is not itself an open solicitation." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The Air Force announcement explicitly cites 10 USC 2667.", "source": { "title": "Air Force to host virtual industry day for Eielson Air Force Base", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4550017/air-force-to-host-virtual-industry-day-for-eielson-air-force-base/", "locator": "RFLP AFCEC-26-R-0009; four sites; 10 USC 2667; August 10 deadline", "evidence_type": "official solicitation announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-20", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-d1776e10d8b4" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No final Eielson lease award or amended closing date verified. The historical unsolicited-proposal guide is inaccessible in current direct checks; use current AFCEC office discovery, not its old mailbox." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2667", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2667&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2667", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-1aaae2945d21" }, { "title": "Air Force to host virtual industry day for Eielson Air Force Base", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/4550017/air-force-to-host-virtual-industry-day-for-eielson-air-force-base/", "locator": "RFLP AFCEC-26-R-0009; four sites; 10 USC 2667; August 10 deadline", "evidence_type": "official solicitation announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-20", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-d1776e10d8b4" }, { "title": "AFCEC Guide for submission of an unsolicited Enhanced Use Lease proposal", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/Portals/17/documents/EUL/AFD-130729-018.pdf", "locator": "Unsolicited proposal submission to AFCEC/CIUB; EUL definition and fair-market-value consideration", "evidence_type": "official process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical guide, revision 24 February 2015. Official indexed text inspected. Main audit fetch returned HTTP 404; independent recheck returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04. Do not rely on the old mailbox as current; current discovery: https://www.afcec.af.mil/Home/EUL/. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 404 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications.", "published_on": "2015-02-24", "source_id": "src-ec586c452a51" }, { "title": "AFCEC Real Estate Development", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/Home/EUL/", "locator": "Enhanced Use Leasing: lifecycle responsibilities and current CIUE workflow contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed page inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-465f4577714e" } ], "research_scope": "Read the Eielson AFCEC announcement, older unsolicited-proposal guide and statutory exclusions; separated a dated competition from general EUL authority." }, { "record_id": "IND-31", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Easements have a real-estate approval track separate from environmental or waterway permits; USACE guidance explicitly invokes § 2668 for power/communications crossings.", "routes": [ { "program": "Power-line and communications easements", "administering_office": "Holding military department or USACE real-estate district for the affected property", "audience": "Utilities or other parties needing a defined right across federal land", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "A § 2668 easement must serve the public interest without making the land unavailable for its required use.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2668", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2668&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2668", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a776e8bd61bb" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Coordinate the real-estate easement with the responsible landholding office and obtain separate technical or regulatory permissions where required.", "source": { "title": "USACE ER 1110-2-4401: Clearances for Electric Power Supply Lines and Communication Lines", "url": "https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/Portals/76/Users/182/86/2486/ER%201110-2-4401.pdf?ver=3RX6gLYfHd9UQdttYzI0aQ%3D%3D", "locator": "§ 7", "evidence_type": "official engineering regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2021-02-28", "source_id": "src-d8f158251c0e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published easement process", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "ER 1110-2-4401 § 7 identifies § 2668 easement authority.", "source": { "title": "USACE ER 1110-2-4401: Clearances for Electric Power Supply Lines and Communication Lines", "url": "https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/Portals/76/Users/182/86/2486/ER%201110-2-4401.pdf?ver=3RX6gLYfHd9UQdttYzI0aQ%3D%3D", "locator": "Printed p.3, § 7, real-estate easements under 10 USC 2668", "evidence_type": "official engineering regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2021-02-28", "source_id": "src-d8f158251c0e" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Consideration follows the applicable property valuation and § 2667-linked receipt rules.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2668", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2668&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2668", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a776e8bd61bb" }, "kind": "property consideration", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "An easement conveys a limited right, not fee ownership; it does not replace other permits.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2668", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2668&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2668", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a776e8bd61bb" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read USACE easement engineering guidance", "url": "https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/Portals/76/Users/182/86/2486/ER%201110-2-4401.pdf?ver=3RX6gLYfHd9UQdttYzI0aQ%3D%3D", "type": "government property process", "scope": "This regulation’s reservoir/civil-works setting is limited; consult the installation real-estate office for military-base procedures." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The regulation explicitly cites 10 USC 2668, but does not supply a universal military-installation application package.", "source": { "title": "USACE ER 1110-2-4401: Clearances for Electric Power Supply Lines and Communication Lines", "url": "https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/Portals/76/Users/182/86/2486/ER%201110-2-4401.pdf?ver=3RX6gLYfHd9UQdttYzI0aQ%3D%3D", "locator": "Printed p.3, § 7, real-estate easements under 10 USC 2668", "evidence_type": "official engineering regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2021-02-28", "source_id": "src-d8f158251c0e" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No project-specific easement form, appraisal or installation approval verified; local property custody determines the route." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2668", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2668&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2668", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a776e8bd61bb" }, { "title": "USACE ER 1110-2-4401: Clearances for Electric Power Supply Lines and Communication Lines", "url": "https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/Portals/76/Users/182/86/2486/ER%201110-2-4401.pdf?ver=3RX6gLYfHd9UQdttYzI0aQ%3D%3D", "locator": "Printed p.3, § 7, real-estate easements under 10 USC 2668", "evidence_type": "official engineering regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2021-02-28", "source_id": "src-d8f158251c0e" }, { "title": "USACE Mobile District Acquisitions Branch", "url": "https://www.sam.usace.army.mil/Missions/Real-Estate/Acquisitions-Branch/", "locator": "Military acquisition and real-estate outgrant functions; branch contact", "evidence_type": "official office/process page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-c4b66c794889" } ], "research_scope": "Compared § 2668 with USACE engineering and district outgrant guidance; excluded regulatory permits as substitutes for property rights." }, { "record_id": "IND-32", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "USACE publishes an overseas lease template and a 2026 real-estate service description explicitly tied to § 2675.", "routes": [ { "program": "Overseas non-housing real-property leases", "administering_office": "Military department real-estate authority; USACE district with the relevant warrant and geographic remit", "audience": "Government customers and eligible foreign property lessors", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The district guide identifies 10 USC 2675 warrant authority for acquiring real-estate interests; the individual requirement, warrant and host-country legal conditions must be verified.", "source": { "title": "USACE Middle East District Products and Services Guide 2026", "url": "https://www.tam.usace.army.mil/Portals/77/products%20and%20services%20guide%202026%20Website.pdf", "locator": "Section 5, Real Estate Office: 10 USC 2675 warrants and reimbursable services", "evidence_type": "official office/process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-a1a47b333316" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The Middle East District describes market research, lessor identification/vetting and acquisition support in its area of responsibility.", "source": { "title": "USACE Middle East District Products and Services Guide 2026", "url": "https://www.tam.usace.army.mil/Portals/77/products%20and%20services%20guide%202026%20Website.pdf", "locator": "Section 5, Real Estate Office: 10 USC 2675 warrants and reimbursable services", "evidence_type": "official office/process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-a1a47b333316" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published government service", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The 2026 district guide identifies § 2675 real-estate warrant authority.", "source": { "title": "USACE Middle East District Products and Services Guide 2026", "url": "https://www.tam.usace.army.mil/Portals/77/products%20and%20services%20guide%202026%20Website.pdf", "locator": "Section 5, Real Estate Office: 10 USC 2675 warrants and reimbursable services", "evidence_type": "official office/process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-a1a47b333316" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "District services are fully reimbursable government support; lease rent is not a grant to the lessor.", "source": { "title": "USACE Middle East District Products and Services Guide 2026", "url": "https://www.tam.usace.army.mil/Portals/77/products%20and%20services%20guide%202026%20Website.pdf", "locator": "Section 5, Real Estate Office: 10 USC 2675 warrants and reimbursable services", "evidence_type": "official office/process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-a1a47b333316" }, "kind": "reimbursable government service/rent", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "§ 2675 non-family-housing term and fiscal limits remain; separate § 2828 housing authority in the same guide must not be substituted.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2675", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2675&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2675", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-22258207029b" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "USACE Middle East District real-estate services", "url": "https://www.tam.usace.army.mil/", "type": "official office discovery", "scope": "Request geographic and project-specific real-estate guidance; no standing call for property offers. The 2026 service guide is indexed but direct PDF access is restricted." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The 2026 district service guide expressly identifies 10 USC 2675. The inaccessible Europe template is retained only as historical indexed corroboration.", "source": { "title": "USACE Middle East District Products and Services Guide 2026", "url": "https://www.tam.usace.army.mil/Portals/77/products%20and%20services%20guide%202026%20Website.pdf", "locator": "Section 5, Real Estate Office: 10 USC 2675 warrants and reimbursable services", "evidence_type": "official office/process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-a1a47b333316" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No active property requirement, chosen lessor or current warrant for a named individual verified; host-country rights and exact project delegation remain transaction-specific.", "Europe overseas-template URL returned 404 in the main access audit and 403 in an independent recheck; it is not a working application endpoint." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2675", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2675&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2675", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-22258207029b" }, { "title": "USACE Europe District Overseas Lease Template", "url": "https://www.nau.usace.army.mil/Portals/71/Overseas%20Lease%20Template.pdf", "locator": "Opening authority clause, 10 USC 2675; property description and Exhibit A", "evidence_type": "official contract template", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical indexed template, not current intake. Main audit returned HTTP 404; independent recheck returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04. Current official office discovery: https://www.nau.usace.army.mil/Real-Estate/. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 404 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications.", "source_id": "src-585f69e3bde4" }, { "title": "USACE Middle East District Products and Services Guide 2026", "url": "https://www.tam.usace.army.mil/Portals/77/products%20and%20services%20guide%202026%20Website.pdf", "locator": "Section 5, Real Estate Office: 10 USC 2675 warrants and reimbursable services", "evidence_type": "official office/process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-a1a47b333316" } ], "research_scope": "Read indexed 2026 Middle East District real-estate section and Europe lease-template opening; PDFs returned direct-fetch403." }, { "record_id": "IND-33", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "MILCON is a government authorization, budgeting and construction-agent process; public project delivery does not create an external capital application.", "routes": [ { "program": "Military construction programming and execution", "administering_office": "Military department/Defense Agency sponsor; designated USACE or NAVFAC construction agent; component comptroller", "audience": "Installation project sponsors and contractors competing for subsequently solicited work", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "A project requires applicable authorization and appropriations; design and scope controls remain separately relevant.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2802", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2802&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2802", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-d42478512809" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Prepare and process the project justification through DD Form 1391 and component construction programming.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B Chapter 6, February 2025", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/Volume_02b.pdf", "locator": "Military Construction/Family Housing budget submission; DD Form 1391 exhibits", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "February 2025 Chapter 6 located in indexed consolidated Volume 2B. Direct retrieval returned HTTP 403. Replaces standalone chapter URL returning 404 in main audit and exposing old June 2013 indexed text. Official discovery: https://comptroller.defense.gov/FMR/.", "source_id": "src-55750f6e360a" } } ], "status": { "label": "Process and completed project documented", "as_of": "2025-09-09", "text": "FMR publishes budget instructions; USACE reported completion of Yokota’s combat-arms facility in September 2025.", "source": { "title": "Yokota’s new combat arms facility enhances warfighter readiness in the Indo-Pacific", "url": "https://www.army.mil/article/288365/yokotas_new_combat_arms_facility_enhances_warfighter_readiness_in_the_indo_pacific", "locator": "Completed facility and USACE Japan District construction role", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-09-09", "source_id": "src-38b3f9672d8d" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "MILCON budget documents request project funding; a request does not establish an award or remaining balance.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B Chapter 6, February 2025", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/Volume_02b.pdf", "locator": "Military Construction/Family Housing budget submission; DD Form 1391 exhibits", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "February 2025 Chapter 6 located in indexed consolidated Volume 2B. Direct retrieval returned HTTP 403. Replaces standalone chapter URL returning 404 in main audit and exposing old June 2013 indexed text. Official discovery: https://comptroller.defense.gov/FMR/.", "source_id": "src-55750f6e360a" }, "kind": "budget formulation", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Yokota is delivery context, not proof of the exact statutory authorization or current contractor intake.", "source": { "title": "Yokota’s new combat arms facility enhances warfighter readiness in the Indo-Pacific", "url": "https://www.army.mil/article/288365/yokotas_new_combat_arms_facility_enhances_warfighter_readiness_in_the_indo_pacific", "locator": "Completed facility and USACE Japan District construction role", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-09-09", "source_id": "src-38b3f9672d8d" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Military construction budget instructions", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/Volume_02b.pdf", "type": "government budget process", "scope": "DD 1391 and budget justification requirements; vendors use an actual project solicitation.", "retrieval_note": "February 2025 Chapter 6 located in indexed consolidated Volume 2B. Direct retrieval returned HTTP 403. Replaces standalone chapter URL returning 404 in main audit and exposing old June 2013 indexed text. Official discovery: https://comptroller.defense.gov/FMR/." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DoDD 4270.5 assigns military-construction execution roles; use the current statutory record for later amended limits.", "source": { "title": "DoDD 4270.5 Military Construction, Change 1", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/427005p.pdf", "locator": "Military-department responsibilities and designated construction agents", "evidence_type": "official implementing directive", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018-08-31", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-2a3621b6f45f" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Individual project authorization/appropriation, DD 1391, scope approvals and procurement record must be checked separately; the 2025 financial manual predates FY 2026 amendments." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2802", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2802&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2802", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-d42478512809" }, { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B Chapter 6, February 2025", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/Volume_02b.pdf", "locator": "Military Construction/Family Housing budget submission; DD Form 1391 exhibits", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "February 2025 Chapter 6 located in indexed consolidated Volume 2B. Direct retrieval returned HTTP 403. Replaces standalone chapter URL returning 404 in main audit and exposing old June 2013 indexed text. Official discovery: https://comptroller.defense.gov/FMR/.", "source_id": "src-55750f6e360a" }, { "title": "DoDD 4270.5 Military Construction, Change 1", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/427005p.pdf", "locator": "Military-department responsibilities and designated construction agents", "evidence_type": "official implementing directive", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018-08-31", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text inspected; direct PDF/page retrieval returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04.", "source_id": "src-2a3621b6f45f" }, { "title": "Yokota’s new combat arms facility enhances warfighter readiness in the Indo-Pacific", "url": "https://www.army.mil/article/288365/yokotas_new_combat_arms_facility_enhances_warfighter_readiness_in_the_indo_pacific", "locator": "Completed facility and USACE Japan District construction role", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-09-09", "source_id": "src-38b3f9672d8d" } ], "research_scope": "Examined construction directive, FMR budget procedure and an actual USACE project report; did not infer all authority elements from construction news." }, { "record_id": "IND-34", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "A FY 2026 Defense-Wide budget exhibit explicitly implements unspecified minor construction under § 2805, while its requested dollars are not current availability.", "routes": [ { "program": "Unspecified Minor Military Construction", "administering_office": "Military department/Defense Agency facilities sponsor and comptroller; designated construction agent", "audience": "Government facilities sponsors; contractors only through a subsequent procurement", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Projects must meet § 2805 cost/purpose limits; avoid project splitting or unauthorized new family housing.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2805", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2805&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2805", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-dd4cb3327a35" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Sponsor and justify the complete project, select the proper appropriation and satisfy current notice and approval rules.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2805", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2805&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2805", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-dd4cb3327a35" } } ], "status": { "label": "Budget process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The FY 2026 DD 1391 identifies § 2805 for the Defense-Wide UMC portfolio.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 Military Construction Defense-Wide budget justification", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2026/budget_justification/pdfs/07_Military_Construction/Military_Construction_Defense-Wide_Consolidated.pdf", "locator": "June 2025; printed p.183, DD 1391 Unspecified Minor Construction, authority 10 USC 2805", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-dfd0ca22e346" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "June 2025 budget requested $122.951 million for Defense-Wide UMC, with agency allocations; it is not an enacted balance.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 Military Construction Defense-Wide budget justification", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2026/budget_justification/pdfs/07_Military_Construction/Military_Construction_Defense-Wide_Consolidated.pdf", "locator": "June 2025; printed p.183, DD 1391 Unspecified Minor Construction, authority 10 USC 2805", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-dfd0ca22e346" }, "kind": "budget request", "period": "FY 2026 request published June 2025" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The current FY 2026 statutory notice changes supersede inconsistent older manual thresholds.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2805", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2805&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2805", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-dd4cb3327a35" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read FY 2026 UMC DD 1391", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2026/budget_justification/pdfs/07_Military_Construction/Military_Construction_Defense-Wide_Consolidated.pdf", "type": "budget justification", "scope": "The budget exhibit describes the government portfolio, not an open project-funding application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The DD 1391 expressly states 10 USC 2805, establishing authority-specific budget linkage.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 Military Construction Defense-Wide budget justification", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2026/budget_justification/pdfs/07_Military_Construction/Military_Construction_Defense-Wide_Consolidated.pdf", "locator": "June 2025; printed p.183, DD 1391 Unspecified Minor Construction, authority 10 USC 2805", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-dfd0ca22e346" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No final appropriated/obligated UMC total or project-level approval verified; the June 2025 request predates December 2025 amendments." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2805", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2805&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2805", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-dd4cb3327a35" }, { "title": "FY 2026 Military Construction Defense-Wide budget justification", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2026/budget_justification/pdfs/07_Military_Construction/Military_Construction_Defense-Wide_Consolidated.pdf", "locator": "June 2025; printed p.183, DD 1391 Unspecified Minor Construction, authority 10 USC 2805", "evidence_type": "official budget request", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-dfd0ca22e346" } ], "research_scope": "Read § 2805 current corpus and FY 2026 Defense-Wide DD 1391; kept request, enacted authority and project execution distinct." }, { "record_id": "IND-35", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "USACE publicly attributes BMGR-1 barrier construction to § 2803; this documents use, not a blanket finding that every emergency-construction prerequisite is satisfied.", "routes": [ { "program": "Urgent military construction: BMGR-1 documented example", "administering_office": "Secretary-level approval chain and Army/USACE South Pacific Border Task Force project execution", "audience": "Government urgent-construction sponsors and their competitively/otherwise lawfully selected contractors", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "§ 2803 urgency findings and notifications differ from § 2808’s war/national-emergency requirements.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2803", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2803&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2803", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-5719bebea2e5" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The government must identify the applicable emergency authority, document its findings, notify Congress and identify lawful funds.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2803", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2803&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2803", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-5719bebea2e5" } } ], "status": { "label": "Construction publicly documented", "as_of": "2026-02-09", "text": "USACE’s February 9, 2026 caption identifies BMGR-1 work and expressly cites § 2803.", "source": { "title": "USACE South Pacific Division: Oversight, BMGR-1", "url": "https://www.spd.usace.army.mil/Media/Images/igphoto/2003878809/", "locator": "Photo caption and VIRIN 260209-A-RY318-1003; expressly identifies 10 USC 2803", "evidence_type": "official agency project record", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Event date 2026-02-09 from caption/VIRIN, not asserted publication date.", "source_id": "src-45f0bfb8e355" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Urgent and emergency routes retain their statutory fiscal caps and appropriation restrictions; the photo supplies no award value.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2803", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2803&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2803", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-5719bebea2e5" }, "kind": "government construction appropriations", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "A national-emergency reference is not proof of § 2808 use; the inspected caption names § 2803.", "source": { "title": "USACE South Pacific Division: Oversight, BMGR-1", "url": "https://www.spd.usace.army.mil/Media/Images/igphoto/2003878809/", "locator": "Photo caption and VIRIN 260209-A-RY318-1003; expressly identifies 10 USC 2803", "evidence_type": "official agency project record", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Event date 2026-02-09 from caption/VIRIN, not asserted publication date.", "source_id": "src-45f0bfb8e355" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read USACE BMGR-1 project record", "url": "https://www.spd.usace.army.mil/Media/Images/igphoto/2003878809/", "type": "historical project record", "scope": "Evidence of work underway; not a contractor intake page." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The official project record explicitly identifies § 2803. It does not disclose the underlying finding or notification package.", "source": { "title": "USACE South Pacific Division: Oversight, BMGR-1", "url": "https://www.spd.usace.army.mil/Media/Images/igphoto/2003878809/", "locator": "Photo caption and VIRIN 260209-A-RY318-1003; expressly identifies 10 USC 2803", "evidence_type": "official agency project record", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Event date 2026-02-09 from caption/VIRIN, not asserted publication date.", "source_id": "src-45f0bfb8e355" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No underlying approval, congressional notification, contract value or legal challenge disposition obtained; no separately verified current § 2808 project found in this bounded search." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2803", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2803&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2803", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-5719bebea2e5" }, { "title": "USACE South Pacific Division: Oversight, BMGR-1", "url": "https://www.spd.usace.army.mil/Media/Images/igphoto/2003878809/", "locator": "Photo caption and VIRIN 260209-A-RY318-1003; expressly identifies 10 USC 2803", "evidence_type": "official agency project record", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Event date 2026-02-09 from caption/VIRIN, not asserted publication date.", "source_id": "src-45f0bfb8e355" } ], "research_scope": "Searched urgent/emergency MILCON examples and inspected USACE BMGR-1 records; rejected older guidance using superseded statutory notice periods." }, { "record_id": "IND-36", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "New construction OT authority has concrete 2026 operating frameworks and solicitations; a master CSO is not itself an invitation for unsolicited projects.", "routes": [ { "program": "USSF construction OT Master CSO", "administering_office": "USSF Space Operational Contracting HQ and project-specific Agreements Officer; Senior Contracting Official approval", "audience": "Commercial construction performers responding to a published project AOI", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "This USSF vehicle allows only fixed-price construction OTs, not cost-reimbursable agreements.", "source": { "title": "USSF Construction CSO, USSF-CSO-FY 26-2808A", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f7234db50b18412da39fb549158d9e89/view", "locator": "Description §§ 1–4; updated September 29, 2026", "evidence_type": "official solicitation/framework notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-db76ac887c9b" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Respond to a published AOI: the standard sequence is white paper, oral pitch and full commercial proposal; use its designated Agreements Officer.", "source": { "title": "USSF Construction CSO, USSF-CSO-FY 26-2808A", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f7234db50b18412da39fb549158d9e89/view", "locator": "Description §§ 1–4; updated September 29, 2026", "evidence_type": "official solicitation/framework notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-db76ac887c9b" } } ], "status": { "label": "Framework active; project-specific intake required", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "September 29 master notice is active with no single response date. Camp Pendleton’s separate § 2808a AOI had an October 1 deadline despite still being marked Active.", "source": { "title": "MCB Camp Pendleton industrialized-construction barracks AOI, N6247326R0072", "url": "https://sam.gov/opp/ebf011001b9d4227886195c8d28d653f/view", "locator": "Title; General Information; October 2 update; offer deadline October 1, 2026", "evidence_type": "official solicitation notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-10-02", "source_id": "src-b32388981f16" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The master framework states no available project amount; an AOI and award determine terms.", "source": { "title": "USSF Construction CSO, USSF-CSO-FY 26-2808A", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f7234db50b18412da39fb549158d9e89/view", "locator": "Description §§ 1–4; updated September 29, 2026", "evidence_type": "official solicitation/framework notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-db76ac887c9b" }, "kind": "project-specific OT funding", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "This is § 2808a construction authority, not § 3458 commercial-solutions opening authority or an automatic § 4022 follow-on.", "source": { "title": "USSF Construction CSO, USSF-CSO-FY 26-2808A", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f7234db50b18412da39fb549158d9e89/view", "locator": "Description §§ 1–4; updated September 29, 2026", "evidence_type": "official solicitation/framework notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-db76ac887c9b" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "USSF construction OT master framework", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f7234db50b18412da39fb549158d9e89/view", "type": "solicitation framework", "scope": "Monitor separate AOIs; this master notice explicitly rejects unsolicited submissions." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The master notice explicitly confines its construction scope to 10 USC 2808a.", "source": { "title": "USSF Construction CSO, USSF-CSO-FY 26-2808A", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f7234db50b18412da39fb549158d9e89/view", "locator": "Description §§ 1–4; updated September 29, 2026", "evidence_type": "official solicitation/framework notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-db76ac887c9b" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No completed award under the reviewed AOIs verified; attachments with project-specific selection factors and current amendments require separate review." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2808a", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2808a&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2808a", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-2c22470426b9" }, { "title": "USSF Construction CSO, USSF-CSO-FY 26-2808A", "url": "https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/f7234db50b18412da39fb549158d9e89/view", "locator": "Description §§ 1–4; updated September 29, 2026", "evidence_type": "official solicitation/framework notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-09-29", "source_id": "src-db76ac887c9b" }, { "title": "MCB Camp Pendleton industrialized-construction barracks AOI, N6247326R0072", "url": "https://sam.gov/opp/ebf011001b9d4227886195c8d28d653f/view", "locator": "Title; General Information; October 2 update; offer deadline October 1, 2026", "evidence_type": "official solicitation notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-10-02", "source_id": "src-b32388981f16" }, { "title": "Anniston Army Depot FORGE II, W91QEY-26-R-A002, Amendment5", "url": "https://sam.gov/opp/6fb0b69e788d431ab9226480cf7352ea/view", "locator": "June 30, 2026 amendment; final RPP and July 2, 2026 deadline", "evidence_type": "official solicitation notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-06-30", "source_id": "src-10fbba54d689" } ], "research_scope": "Searched exact2808a construction/AOI terms; followed aggregator leads to original SAM records; reconciled current updates against deadlines rather than trusting Active labels." }, { "record_id": "IND-37", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Long-term facility-service contracts have a distinct budget-justification route; no recent transaction was verified as actually using § 2809.", "routes": [ { "program": "Long-term facilities contract budget/approval process", "administering_office": "Military department facilities sponsor and comptroller; Secretary concerned and authorized contracting office", "audience": "Government sponsors of enumerated facility-services projects", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The project must be in the budget submission, economically preferable and authorized by law; depot maintenance is excluded.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2809", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2809&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2809", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-0243af8ce509" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Historical FMR guidance specifically required DD 1390/DD 1391 plus economic and lease-versus-buy analyses for § 2809 proposals.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B Chapter 6, July 2008 archive", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/archive/02barch/02b_06_Jul08.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.6-21, Long-Term Facilities Contracts", "evidence_type": "historical official financial guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical July 2008 guidance inspected in official indexed text only. Main audit returned HTTP 404; independent recheck returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04. Do not treat as current instructions. Current regulation discovery: https://comptroller.defense.gov/FMR/.", "source_id": "src-2c491631a4f0" } } ], "status": { "label": "Authority-specific process documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The February 2025 FMR continues to list § 2809; a recent awarded project using it was not located.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B, Chapter 6, February 2025", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/Volume_02b.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 6 § 1.2.14, printed p.6-7: § 2809; military construction budget exhibits", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed consolidated version identifies February 2025; standalone chapter search also exposes old June 2013 text, not silently treated as current.", "source_id": "src-55750f6e360a" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Payment obligations depend on specifically provided annual project appropriations; a 32-year permissible term is not upfront budget authority.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2809", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2809&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2809", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-0243af8ce509" }, "kind": "annual service-contract payments", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Lease-purchase, MHPI, EUL and utility-privatization examples do not by themselves establish § 2809 use.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2809", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2809&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2809", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-0243af8ce509" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Review current MILCON financial regulation", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/Volume_02b.pdf", "type": "government budget process", "scope": "For government sponsorship and statutory project authorization; not a private-financing intake portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Current FMR Chapter 6 explicitly lists § 2809; older detailed procedures are labeled historical, not substituted for current thresholds.", "source": { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B, Chapter 6, February 2025", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/Volume_02b.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 6 § 1.2.14, printed p.6-7: § 2809; military construction budget exhibits", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed consolidated version identifies February 2025; standalone chapter search also exposes old June 2013 text, not silently treated as current.", "source_id": "src-55750f6e360a" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No current § 2809 solicitation, executed project or complete current approval package verified; detailed archive procedures need agency confirmation." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2809", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2809&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2809", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-0243af8ce509" }, { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B, Chapter 6, February 2025", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/Volume_02b.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 6 § 1.2.14, printed p.6-7: § 2809; military construction budget exhibits", "evidence_type": "official financial regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed consolidated version identifies February 2025; standalone chapter search also exposes old June 2013 text, not silently treated as current.", "source_id": "src-55750f6e360a" }, { "title": "DoD FMR Volume 2B Chapter 6, July 2008 archive", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/archive/02barch/02b_06_Jul08.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.6-21, Long-Term Facilities Contracts", "evidence_type": "historical official financial guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical July 2008 guidance inspected in official indexed text only. Main audit returned HTTP 404; independent recheck returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-04. Do not treat as current instructions. Current regulation discovery: https://comptroller.defense.gov/FMR/. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 404 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications.", "source_id": "src-2c491631a4f0" } ], "research_scope": "Searched exact authority and long-term-facilities phrases; separated contract-number false positives and adjacent financing statutes; compared current consolidated FMR to historical procedure." }, { "record_id": "IND-38", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Army Reserve publishes a real § 2811 delegation for O&M-funded repairs, including named command-level approval responsibilities.", "routes": [ { "program": "Army Reserve OMAR repair projects", "administering_office": "Commanders of the 63rd, 81st, 88th and 99th Readiness Divisions and 9th Mission Support Command, within the published delegation; major repairs require higher approval", "audience": "Army Reserve government facilities sponsors", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "DOA25-20 delegates qualifying OMAR repairs up to$7.5 million; larger major repairs require Secretary approval and congressional notice.", "source": { "title": "Army Reserve Delegation of Authority25-20: § 2811 OMAR repairs", "url": "https://www.usar.army.mil/Portals/98/Documents/Publications/DOA/DOA%2025-20_OMAR%20Repair%20Projects_CARCG%20Signed.pdf?ver=zz4Tw1HNU2FDXKbGuanRNQ%3D%3D", "locator": "Paragraphs3–4", "evidence_type": "official delegation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment. Exact signature date not verified.", "source_id": "src-1cd649df5a8c" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Prepare the complete repair estimate and approval package through the responsible command; do not characterize new construction as repair.", "source": { "title": "Army Reserve Delegation of Authority25-20: § 2811 OMAR repairs", "url": "https://www.usar.army.mil/Portals/98/Documents/Publications/DOA/DOA%2025-20_OMAR%20Repair%20Projects_CARCG%20Signed.pdf?ver=zz4Tw1HNU2FDXKbGuanRNQ%3D%3D", "locator": "Paragraphs3–4: repair limits and named command-level delegates", "evidence_type": "official delegation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment. Exact signature date not verified.", "source_id": "src-1cd649df5a8c" } } ], "status": { "label": "Delegation published", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The Army Reserve current register lists DOA 25-20 for § 2811 repair projects.", "source": { "title": "Army Reserve publications and current delegation index", "url": "https://www.usar.army.mil/Publications/Publications/", "locator": "CAR DOA25-20,25-22,25-24 and25-25 listing", "evidence_type": "official document register", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-57a105d110b3" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Qualifying repair is paid from Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve funds, subject to available allocations.", "source": { "title": "Army Reserve Delegation of Authority25-20: § 2811 OMAR repairs", "url": "https://www.usar.army.mil/Portals/98/Documents/Publications/DOA/DOA%2025-20_OMAR%20Repair%20Projects_CARCG%20Signed.pdf?ver=zz4Tw1HNU2FDXKbGuanRNQ%3D%3D", "locator": "Paragraphs3–4: repair limits and named command-level delegates", "evidence_type": "official delegation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment. Exact signature date not verified.", "source_id": "src-1cd649df5a8c" }, "kind": "O&M appropriation", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Construction of new facilities or additions is not authorized under this repair delegation.", "source": { "title": "Army Reserve Delegation of Authority25-20: § 2811 OMAR repairs", "url": "https://www.usar.army.mil/Portals/98/Documents/Publications/DOA/DOA%2025-20_OMAR%20Repair%20Projects_CARCG%20Signed.pdf?ver=zz4Tw1HNU2FDXKbGuanRNQ%3D%3D", "locator": "Paragraphs3–4: repair limits and named command-level delegates", "evidence_type": "official delegation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment. Exact signature date not verified.", "source_id": "src-1cd649df5a8c" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Army Reserve repair delegation", "url": "https://www.usar.army.mil/Portals/98/Documents/Publications/DOA/DOA%2025-20_OMAR%20Repair%20Projects_CARCG%20Signed.pdf?ver=zz4Tw1HNU2FDXKbGuanRNQ%3D%3D", "type": "government approval instrument", "scope": "Applies to the Reserve command scope, not all Services or an external funding competition." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The memorandum explicitly identifies 10 USC 2811 and OMAR; it is direct delegation evidence.", "source": { "title": "Army Reserve Delegation of Authority25-20: § 2811 OMAR repairs", "url": "https://www.usar.army.mil/Portals/98/Documents/Publications/DOA/DOA%2025-20_OMAR%20Repair%20Projects_CARCG%20Signed.pdf?ver=zz4Tw1HNU2FDXKbGuanRNQ%3D%3D", "locator": "Paragraphs3–4: repair limits and named command-level delegates", "evidence_type": "official delegation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment. Exact signature date not verified.", "source_id": "src-1cd649df5a8c" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "The exact signature date and full scanned estimate-escalation provisions were not recovered; project-specific allocation and any later supersession must be confirmed." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2811", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2811&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2811", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-d2e21cfaf66a" }, { "title": "Army Reserve Delegation of Authority25-20: § 2811 OMAR repairs", "url": "https://www.usar.army.mil/Portals/98/Documents/Publications/DOA/DOA%2025-20_OMAR%20Repair%20Projects_CARCG%20Signed.pdf?ver=zz4Tw1HNU2FDXKbGuanRNQ%3D%3D", "locator": "Paragraphs3–4: repair limits and named command-level delegates", "evidence_type": "official delegation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment. Exact signature date not verified.", "source_id": "src-1cd649df5a8c" }, { "title": "Army Reserve publications and current delegation index", "url": "https://www.usar.army.mil/Publications/Publications/", "locator": "CAR DOA25-20,25-22,25-24 and25-25 listing", "evidence_type": "official document register", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-57a105d110b3" } ], "research_scope": "Read indexed delegation paragraphs and current official document register; direct PDF retrieval failed, so no unseen signature date was inferred." }, { "record_id": "IND-39", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Military-housing privatization is an implemented sector-specific program, with historical guarantee evidence and service execution routes. A current open developer credit application was not verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "Military Housing Privatization Initiative — housing credit", "administering_office": "Secretary concerned and assigned service privatization/real-estate teams; NAVFAC, AFCEC and Army RCI/USACE Norfolk within their respective scopes", "audience": "Eligible developers/entities on military family or unaccompanied-housing projects; not ordinary businesses seeking general capital.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Eligible entities must acquire or construct housing suitable for military use; direct loans/guarantees require protective terms and the applicable credit-budget authority.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 2873 — Direct loans and loan guarantees", "url": "https://usc-cdn.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title10-section2873", "locator": "Subsections (a)–(c); official indexed text through September 20, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-987095a48969" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Navy/Marine Corps PPV projects use private partners to develop/manage housing; partner/subcontracting directories identify existing projects, not a general federal loan application.", "source": { "title": "NAVFAC — Subcontracting Opportunities and PPV partners", "url": "https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Divisions/Office-of-Small-Business-Programs/Opportunities/Subcontracting-Opportunities/", "locator": "Public Private Venture housing program and partner directories", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-5cd3a592a023" } }, { "text": "AFCEC publishes contract opportunities through SAM.gov. A specific housing-project notice is necessary; no current open developer financing solicitation was verified in this review.", "source": { "title": "AFCEC — Business opportunities", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/Home/Business/", "locator": "Contract opportunities published through SAM.gov; page review September 29, 2025", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-f610bf835b62" } }, { "text": "USACE’s 2025 assignment regulation identifies Norfolk District’s Army RCI program-management/support responsibilities.", "source": { "title": "USACE ER 5-1-10: Work Assignments and Responsibility", "url": "https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/Portals/76/ER%205-1-10_USACE%20Work%20Assignments%20and%20Responsibility_2025%2004%2022%20-%20Final.pdf", "locator": "March 25, 2025 regulation, printed p.15, Norfolk District RCI responsibilities", "published_on": "2025-03-25", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-5e4de08a0257" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Historical FY 2019 MHPI reporting describes limited government guarantees on senior private debt in eleven family-housing projects; historical implementation, not today’s capacity.", "kind": "Historical project guarantee evidence", "period": "FY 2019 report", "source": { "title": "DoD Military Housing Privatization Initiative report FY 2019", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Other/23-F-0577_Doc4_MHPI_Report_FY19.pdf", "locator": "Attachment A-10, historical government loan guarantees", "published_on": "FY 2019", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-adc7d7854235" } }, { "text": "FY 2027 requests $8.412M FHIF and $0.501M MUHIF administration. These are administrative requests, not developer loan principal or an available project-investment pool.", "kind": "Requested administrative appropriations", "period": "FY 2027 request, April 2026", "source": { "title": "FY 2027 Defense-Wide Family Housing and FHIF budget justification", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2027/budget_justification/pdfs/04_Family_Housing/PB_27_DW_FH_FHIF.pdf", "locator": "April 2026; FH-3, FH-31–33, FH-37–39; PDF pp.5,32–35,38–40", "published_on": "2026-04", "evidence_type": "official budget exhibit", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f84a10e1787a" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Guarantee cannot exceed the lesser of 80% of project value or outstanding principal; housing credit is not general commercial real-estate lending.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 2873 — Direct loans and loan guarantees", "url": "https://usc-cdn.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&num=0&req=granuleid%3AUSC-prelim-title10-section2873", "locator": "Subsections (a)–(c); official indexed text through September 20, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-987095a48969" } } ], "status": { "label": "Housing program documented; project intake not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The FY 2027 justification documents ongoing MHPI oversight and housing-improvement accounts. It is not an open finance notice.", "source": { "title": "FY 2027 Defense-Wide Family Housing and FHIF budget justification", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2027/budget_justification/pdfs/04_Family_Housing/PB_27_DW_FH_FHIF.pdf", "locator": "April 2026; FH-3, FH-31–33, FH-37–39; PDF pp.5,32–35,38–40", "published_on": "2026-04", "evidence_type": "official budget exhibit", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f84a10e1787a" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Service housing PPV/partner context", "url": "https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Divisions/Office-of-Small-Business-Programs/Opportunities/Subcontracting-Opportunities/", "type": "service program / existing private-partner discovery", "scope": "Navy/Marine Corps scope only. Use project-specific service notices for developer participation; subcontracting with a partner is a different route." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Section 2873 authorizes military-housing direct loans/guarantees; section 2883 governs housing-improvement funds and credit controls.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. chapter 169, subchapter IV — military housing privatization", "url": "https://usc-cdn.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&path=%2Fprelim%40title10%2FsubtitleA%2Fpart4%2Fchapter169%2Fsubchapter4", "locator": "Sections 2871, 2873, 2875, 2883", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-471d31148175" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "For a real project: obtain the service solicitation/partner agreement, current credit-subsidy authority, eligibility and guarantee/default terms.", "Historical guarantee totals and FY 2027 administrative requests must not be shown as currently available financing." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. chapter 169, subchapter IV — military housing privatization", "url": "https://usc-cdn.house.gov/view.xhtml?edition=prelim&path=%2Fprelim%40title10%2FsubtitleA%2Fpart4%2Fchapter169%2Fsubchapter4", "locator": "Sections 2871, 2873, 2875, 2883", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-471d31148175", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "DoD Military Housing Privatization Initiative report FY 2019", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Other/23-F-0577_Doc4_MHPI_Report_FY19.pdf", "locator": "Attachment A-10, historical government loan guarantees", "published_on": "FY 2019", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-adc7d7854235" }, { "title": "NAVFAC — Subcontracting Opportunities and PPV partners", "url": "https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Divisions/Office-of-Small-Business-Programs/Opportunities/Subcontracting-Opportunities/", "locator": "Public Private Venture housing program and partner directories", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-5cd3a592a023" }, { "title": "AFCEC — Business opportunities", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/Home/Business/", "locator": "Contract opportunities published through SAM.gov; page review September 29, 2025", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-f610bf835b62" }, { "title": "USACE ER 5-1-10: Work Assignments and Responsibility", "url": "https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/Portals/76/ER%205-1-10_USACE%20Work%20Assignments%20and%20Responsibility_2025%2004%2022%20-%20Final.pdf", "locator": "March 25, 2025 regulation, printed p.15, Norfolk District RCI responsibilities", "published_on": "2025-03-25", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-5e4de08a0257" }, { "title": "FY 2027 Defense-Wide Family Housing and FHIF budget justification", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2027/budget_justification/pdfs/04_Family_Housing/PB_27_DW_FH_FHIF.pdf", "locator": "April 2026; FH-3, FH-31–33, FH-37–39; PDF pp.5,32–35,38–40", "published_on": "2026-04", "evidence_type": "official budget exhibit", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f84a10e1787a" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-40", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Express equity and debt authority exists within military-housing privatization, with documented service partnership processes. It is housing-specific, not general-purpose investment capital.", "routes": [ { "program": "Military Housing Privatization Initiative — project investment", "administering_office": "Secretary concerned and assigned service privatization/real-estate teams; NAVFAC, AFCEC and Army RCI/USACE Norfolk within their respective scopes", "audience": "Eligible developers/entities on military family or unaccompanied-housing projects; not ordinary businesses seeking general capital.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Investment is limited to eligible military-housing acquisition/construction projects; statute permits stock, other equity, partnership and debt interests with military-use/occupancy protections.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 2875, 2024 official edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169-subchapIV-sec2875.htm", "locator": "Subsections (a)–(d); read with Public Law 119-21 section 20001(b)", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b883bc480dcc" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Navy/Marine Corps PPV projects use private partners to develop/manage housing; partner/subcontracting directories identify existing projects, not a general federal loan application.", "source": { "title": "NAVFAC — Subcontracting Opportunities and PPV partners", "url": "https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Divisions/Office-of-Small-Business-Programs/Opportunities/Subcontracting-Opportunities/", "locator": "Public Private Venture housing program and partner directories", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-5cd3a592a023" } }, { "text": "AFCEC publishes contract opportunities through SAM.gov. A specific housing-project notice is necessary; no current open developer financing solicitation was verified in this review.", "source": { "title": "AFCEC — Business opportunities", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/Home/Business/", "locator": "Contract opportunities published through SAM.gov; page review September 29, 2025", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-f610bf835b62" } }, { "text": "USACE’s 2025 assignment regulation identifies Norfolk District’s Army RCI program-management/support responsibilities.", "source": { "title": "USACE ER 5-1-10: Work Assignments and Responsibility", "url": "https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/Portals/76/ER%205-1-10_USACE%20Work%20Assignments%20and%20Responsibility_2025%2004%2022%20-%20Final.pdf", "locator": "March 25, 2025 regulation, printed p.15, Norfolk District RCI responsibilities", "published_on": "2025-03-25", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-5e4de08a0257" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Housing funds remain subject to account and project controls. The FY 2027 oversight request does not quantify a new developer equity allocation.", "kind": "Project-specific housing funding; allocation unverified", "period": "Current project must be established", "source": { "title": "FY 2027 Defense-Wide Family Housing and FHIF budget justification", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2027/budget_justification/pdfs/04_Family_Housing/PB_27_DW_FH_FHIF.pdf", "locator": "April 2026; FH-3, FH-31–33, FH-37–39; PDF pp.5,32–35,38–40", "published_on": "2026-04", "evidence_type": "official budget exhibit", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f84a10e1787a" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Temporary 60% cap applies to both statutory investment limits from July 4, 2025 through September 30, 2029; this changes percentages, not appropriations or open intake.", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-21", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm", "locator": "Sections 20001(b), 20004(d), 20005(b)", "published_on": "2025-07-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-3c9f3d9416da" } }, { "text": "Ordinary cash/combined contribution caps are 33⅓%/45%; eligible housing investments are not a general venture or critical-minerals equity fund.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 2875, 2024 official edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169-subchapIV-sec2875.htm", "locator": "Subsections (a)–(d); read with Public Law 119-21 section 20001(b)", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b883bc480dcc" } } ], "status": { "label": "Housing program documented; project intake not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The FY 2027 justification documents ongoing MHPI oversight and housing-improvement accounts. It is not an open finance notice.", "source": { "title": "FY 2027 Defense-Wide Family Housing and FHIF budget justification", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2027/budget_justification/pdfs/04_Family_Housing/PB_27_DW_FH_FHIF.pdf", "locator": "April 2026; FH-3, FH-31–33, FH-37–39; PDF pp.5,32–35,38–40", "published_on": "2026-04", "evidence_type": "official budget exhibit", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f84a10e1787a" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Service housing PPV/partner context", "url": "https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Divisions/Office-of-Small-Business-Programs/Opportunities/Subcontracting-Opportunities/", "type": "service program / existing private-partner discovery", "scope": "Navy/Marine Corps scope only. Use project-specific service notices for developer participation; subcontracting with a partner is a different route." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Section 2875 supplies express housing investment authority; the temporary percentage modification is PL 119-21 section 20001(b).", "source": { "title": "Public Law 119-21", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm", "locator": "Sections 20001(b), 20004(d), 20005(b)", "published_on": "2025-07-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-3c9f3d9416da" } }, "relationship_type": "related process" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Verify the selected project’s capital valuation, military occupancy agreement, actual government contribution and service approval.", "No currently open housing-equity investment round was verified; do not imply the 60% cap is an entitlement." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. 2875, 2024 official edition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169-subchapIV-sec2875.htm", "locator": "Subsections (a)–(d); read with Public Law 119-21 section 20001(b)", "evidence_type": "historical statutory edition", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b883bc480dcc" }, { "title": "Public Law 119-21", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm", "locator": "Sections 20001(b), 20004(d), 20005(b)", "published_on": "2025-07-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-3c9f3d9416da" }, { "title": "FY 2027 Defense-Wide Family Housing and FHIF budget justification", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/defbudget/FY2027/budget_justification/pdfs/04_Family_Housing/PB_27_DW_FH_FHIF.pdf", "locator": "April 2026; FH-3, FH-31–33, FH-37–39; PDF pp.5,32–35,38–40", "published_on": "2026-04", "evidence_type": "official budget exhibit", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f84a10e1787a" }, { "title": "NAVFAC — Subcontracting Opportunities and PPV partners", "url": "https://www.navfac.navy.mil/Divisions/Office-of-Small-Business-Programs/Opportunities/Subcontracting-Opportunities/", "locator": "Public Private Venture housing program and partner directories", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-5cd3a592a023" }, { "title": "AFCEC — Business opportunities", "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/Home/Business/", "locator": "Contract opportunities published through SAM.gov; page review September 29, 2025", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-f610bf835b62" }, { "title": "USACE ER 5-1-10: Work Assignments and Responsibility", "url": "https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/Portals/76/ER%205-1-10_USACE%20Work%20Assignments%20and%20Responsibility_2025%2004%2022%20-%20Final.pdf", "locator": "March 25, 2025 regulation, printed p.15, Norfolk District RCI responsibilities", "published_on": "2025-03-25", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-5e4de08a0257" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "IND-41", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Differential lease payments have documented historical use; rental and occupancy guarantees were explicitly reported unused in FY 2024. Use of the first mechanism does not establish use of the second.", "routes": [ { "program": "MHPI differential lease payments", "administering_office": "Military department housing-privatization program with OSD/OMB oversight", "audience": "Eligible MHPI projects where additional lease support is approved", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Differential payments are tied to eligible military housing and additional payments beyond occupant rent.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2876", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2876&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2876", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-6f4670e65373" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Score the payment stream at net present value and obtain the applicable project and funding approvals.", "source": { "title": "DoDM4165.63 DoD Housing Management, Change3", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodm/416563m.pdf", "locator": "Enclosure3 p.33(e)", "evidence_type": "official implementing manual", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-04-01", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment.", "source_id": "src-7495f3aebe03" } } ], "status": { "label": "Historical commitments verified", "as_of": "2019-09-30", "text": "FY 2019 report records differential-payment commitments to four family-housing projects.", "source": { "title": "Military Housing Privatization Initiative FY 2019 Program Report", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Other/23-F-0577_Doc4_MHPI_Report_FY19.pdf", "locator": "DIFFERENTIAL LEASE PAYMENTS section; reporting period October 1, 2018–September 30, 2019", "evidence_type": "official program report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Public FOIA reading-room document; historical balances only.", "source_id": "src-adc7d7854235" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Reported cumulative commitments were about$32.8 million, with roughly$0.5 million then remaining to pay; these are FY 2019 figures, not current availability.", "source": { "title": "Military Housing Privatization Initiative FY 2019 Program Report", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Other/23-F-0577_Doc4_MHPI_Report_FY19.pdf", "locator": "DIFFERENTIAL LEASE PAYMENTS section; reporting period October 1, 2018–September 30, 2019", "evidence_type": "official program report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Public FOIA reading-room document; historical balances only.", "source_id": "src-adc7d7854235" }, "kind": "historical payment commitments", "period": "FY 2019" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The 2025 manual does not establish an open competition or current allotment.", "source": { "title": "DoDM4165.63 DoD Housing Management, Change3", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodm/416563m.pdf", "locator": "Enclosure 3, printed p. 33, paragraphs (d) Leases and Conveyances and (e) Differential Lease Payments", "evidence_type": "official implementing manual", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-04-01", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment.", "source_id": "src-7495f3aebe03" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read housing-management requirements", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodm/416563m.pdf", "type": "program administration guidance", "scope": "Project-level approval/scoring route; not a general housing-developer grant application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The financial report identifies § 2877 as the differential-payment mechanism; reported use must not be mistaken for § 2876 rental guarantees.", "source": { "title": "DoD FY 2024 Agency Financial Report: Financial Section", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/4-Financial_Section.pdf", "locator": "Note 25, printed p. 228, Funding and Contributions, footnote 1", "evidence_type": "official financial report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Fiscal-year evidence; not current-intake certification.", "source_id": "src-914ef98ef397" } } }, { "program": "MHPI § 2876 occupancy/rental guarantees", "administering_office": "Military department Secretary; no active guarantee origination route verified", "audience": "Statutorily eligible MHPI entities only if the government elects to use the mechanism", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Any guarantee must attach to eligible MHPI housing, not general commercial offtake.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2876", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2876&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2876", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; 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not current-intake certification.", "source_id": "src-914ef98ef397" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read reported nonuse of rental guarantees", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/4-Financial_Section.pdf", "type": "status reference", "scope": "FY 2024 status evidence; no application endpoint." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "AFR page 228, footnote 1, singles out section 2876 rather than loan guarantees under section 2873.", "source": { "title": "DoD FY 2024 Agency Financial Report: Financial Section", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/4-Financial_Section.pdf", "locator": "Note 25, printed p. 228, Funding and Contributions, footnote 1", "evidence_type": "official financial report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Fiscal-year evidence; not current-intake certification.", "source_id": "src-914ef98ef397" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Later § 2876 adoption and updated § 2877 payment balances were not verified; no current open financing intake found." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2876", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2876&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2876", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-6f4670e65373" }, { "title": "DoDM4165.63 DoD Housing Management, Change3", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodm/416563m.pdf", "locator": "Enclosure 3, printed p. 33, paragraphs (d) Leases and Conveyances and (e) Differential Lease Payments", "evidence_type": "official implementing manual", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-04-01", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment.", "source_id": "src-7495f3aebe03" }, { "title": "Military Housing Privatization Initiative FY 2019 Program Report", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Other/23-F-0577_Doc4_MHPI_Report_FY19.pdf", "locator": "DIFFERENTIAL LEASE PAYMENTS section; reporting period October 1, 2018–September 30, 2019", "evidence_type": "official program report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Public FOIA reading-room document; historical balances only.", "source_id": "src-adc7d7854235" }, { "title": "DoD FY 2024 Agency Financial Report: Financial Section", "url": "https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2024/4-Financial_Section.pdf", "locator": "Note 25, printed p. 228, Funding and Contributions, footnote 1", "evidence_type": "official financial report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Fiscal-year evidence; not current-intake certification.", "source_id": "src-914ef98ef397" } ], "research_scope": "Searched exact2876/2877 and differential-payment terms across official financial reports, housing manuals and GAO; separated credit guarantees from occupancy support." }, { "record_id": "IND-42", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Housing property conveyance and ground leasing are documented MHPI operating tools, with 2025 guidance preserving eligibility, consideration and military rental preference.", "routes": [ { "program": "MHPI property conveyance/ground lease", "administering_office": "Military department housing-privatization and real-estate officials; OSD oversight", "audience": "Selected housing project entities, not arbitrary land bidders", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The manual excludes installations approved for closure and requires military members’ right of first refusal for a reasonable number of units.", "source": { "title": "DoDM4165.63 DoD Housing Management, Change3", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodm/416563m.pdf", "locator": "Enclosure3 p.33(d)", "evidence_type": "official implementing manual", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-04-01", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment.", "source_id": "src-7495f3aebe03" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Negotiate project-specific property instruments and approved consideration within the housing program.", "source": { "title": "DoDM4165.63 DoD Housing Management, Change3", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodm/416563m.pdf", "locator": "Enclosure 3, printed p. 33, paragraphs (d) Leases and Conveyances and (e) Differential Lease Payments", "evidence_type": "official implementing manual", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-04-01", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment.", "source_id": "src-7495f3aebe03" } } ], "status": { "label": "Operating structure documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "GAO describes typical 50-year land leases and conveyance of existing housing to developers for the lease duration.", "source": { "title": "GAO23-105377: Military Housing oversight", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/820/818828.pdf", "locator": "Background, printed p.5, land leases and conveyance of existing housing", "evidence_type": "official oversight report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e69c2bb31a29" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Property contributes to the project structure; MHPI fund and receipt restrictions continue to apply.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2878", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2878&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2878", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-20290e1d839c" }, "kind": "property contribution/lease consideration", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "A typical50-year practice is not a universal term or proof that any particular parcel is offered; tenant protections still apply.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2878", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2878&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2878", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-20290e1d839c" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read current housing-management conveyance rules", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodm/416563m.pdf", "type": "program guidance", "scope": "MHPI-specific real-estate terms; distinct from general § 2667 EUL." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The manual expressly links conveyances of supporting facilities to § 2878(a).", "source": { "title": "DoDM4165.63 DoD Housing Management, Change3", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodm/416563m.pdf", "locator": "Enclosure3 p.33(h)", "evidence_type": "official implementing manual", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-04-01", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment.", "source_id": "src-7495f3aebe03" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No currently offered § 2878 parcel, transaction-specific ground lease or new extension notice reviewed; current portfolio descriptions are not competitive intake." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2878", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2878&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2878", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-20290e1d839c" }, { "title": "DoDM4165.63 DoD Housing Management, Change3", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodm/416563m.pdf", "locator": "Enclosure 3, printed p. 33, paragraphs (d) Leases and Conveyances and (e) Differential Lease Payments", "evidence_type": "official implementing manual", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-04-01", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment.", "source_id": "src-7495f3aebe03" }, { "title": "GAO23-105377: Military Housing oversight", "url": "https://www.gao.gov/assets/820/818828.pdf", "locator": "Background, printed p.5, land leases and conveyance of existing housing", "evidence_type": "official oversight report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-e69c2bb31a29" } ], "research_scope": "Compared2025 housing manual with GAO’s documented portfolio structure; excluded ordinary EUL announcements as proof of MHPI leasing." }, { "record_id": "IND-43", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Recent Army examples show IGSA use for installation operations and analytic support, with the government partner’s legal status and actual services controlling eligibility.", "routes": [ { "program": "Installation intergovernmental support agreements", "administering_office": "Installation garrison partnership/Plans, Analysis and Integration office; Army Reserve Installation Management Directorate for its enterprise route", "audience": "Qualifying state/local/tribal government partners and their permitted supporting contractors", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Eligible partners and services must satisfy § 2679; private vendors do not become direct eligible governmental counterparties by labeling work an IGSA.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2679", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2679&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2679", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a917f96794e1" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Fort Meade and UMD define objectives and task orders jointly under a standardized bilateral process.", "source": { "title": "UMD and Fort Meade sign Maryland’s first IGSA", "url": "https://www.army.mil/article-amp/294019/umd_u_s_army_garrison_fort_meade_sign_marylands_first_intergovernmental_support_agreement", "locator": "Agreement scope, jointly defined tasks, § 2679 authority paragraph", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-21", "source_id": "src-fe837ee6c7cd" } } ], "status": { "label": "2026 agreements documented", "as_of": "2026-01-07", "text": "Fort Meade/UMD agreement is reported July 21; Army Reserve/Sourcewell enterprise agreement was signed January 7.", "source": { "title": "Army Reserve expands Sourcewell partnership through10-year IGSA", "url": "https://www.usar.army.mil/News/News-Display/Article/4383359/army-reserve-expands-partnership-with-sourcewell-through-10-year-renewable-igsa/", "locator": "January 7 signature; enterprise scope; ARIMD route", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-01-20", "source_id": "src-064b12fb15dd" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "IGSAs purchase or share qualifying installation-support services; published articles do not establish a general grant pool.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2679", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2679&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2679", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a917f96794e1" }, "kind": "installation-support spending", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The partner’s own-use, public-interest, prohibited-service and anti-circumvention restrictions remain.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2679", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2679&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2679", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a917f96794e1" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read Fort Meade/University of Maryland IGSA example", "url": "https://www.army.mil/article-amp/294019/umd_u_s_army_garrison_fort_meade_sign_marylands_first_intergovernmental_support_agreement", "type": "partnership example", "scope": "Illustrates an executed umbrella agreement and jointly defined tasks; not an invitation for every university or vendor." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Fort Meade’s official report explicitly identifies 10 USC 2679.", "source": { "title": "UMD and Fort Meade sign Maryland’s first IGSA", "url": "https://www.army.mil/article-amp/294019/umd_u_s_army_garrison_fort_meade_sign_marylands_first_intergovernmental_support_agreement", "locator": "Agreement scope, jointly defined tasks, § 2679 authority paragraph", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-21", "source_id": "src-fe837ee6c7cd" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Exact approval authority, price comparison and subcontract terms for proposed projects must be obtained; 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enterprise scope; ARIMD route", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-01-20", "source_id": "src-064b12fb15dd" } ], "research_scope": "Reviewed exact2679 agency report and two executed2026 partnerships, distinguishing exploratory university discussions from signed agreements." }, { "record_id": "IND-44", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "REPI offers an authority-specific, installation-coordinated cost-sharing route; the 2027 Challenge preproposal deadline has already passed.", "routes": [ { "program": "Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration / REPI Challenge", "administering_office": "OSD REPI Program under installations/environment leadership, with Military Service and installation partners", "audience": "Eligible government, conservation and other partners under the chosen statutory authority", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Projects must protect mission capability through compatible land use, habitat/environmental relief or installation resilience; eligibility depends on the authority selected.", "source": { "title": "2027 REPI Challenge Request for Proposals", "url": "https://www.repi.mil/Portals/44/2027%20REPI%20Challenge%20RFP_FINAL_v2.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.1, Goal and Background; § 2684a/§ 2679/§ 670c-1 authority list", "evidence_type": "official funding solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Released April 30, 2026 per program page; PDF publication day not separately asserted.", "source_id": "src-d79c552d544a" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Coordinate with the installation and submit through the Challenge Portal according to the cycle instructions.", "source": { "title": "REPI Challenge:2027 competition", "url": "https://www.repi.mil/Buffer-Projects/REPI-Challenge/", "locator": "2027 RFP release, eligible entities and July 2, 2026 preproposal deadline", "evidence_type": "official program/competition page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment.", "source_id": "src-7a78722fff1e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published preproposal deadline passed", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Preproposals for the 2027 Challenge were due July 2, 2026 at 8 p.m. Eastern; 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PDF publication day not separately asserted.", "source_id": "src-d79c552d544a" }, "kind": "announced competition amount", "period": "2027 cycle" }, { "text": "2026 recipients were announced with over$20 million REPI funding and over$43 million partner contributions.", "source": { "title": "REPI program current announcements", "url": "https://www.repi.mil/", "locator": "2026 REPI Challenge funding recipients; program administration", "evidence_type": "official program status page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Read indexed current announcements; totals attributed to cycle, not unallocated funds.", "source_id": "src-f8ffce4c0db4" }, "kind": "announced awards/partner leverage", "period": "2026 cycle" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Land interests require statutory eligibility and willing-owner arrangements; proximity alone does not qualify a project.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2684a", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2684a&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2684a", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; 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direct PDF/page access was blocked despite rich official indexed text." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2684a", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2684a&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2684a", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-939ee22b9187" }, { "title": "REPI Challenge:2027 competition", "url": "https://www.repi.mil/Buffer-Projects/REPI-Challenge/", "locator": "2027 RFP release, eligible entities and July 2, 2026 preproposal deadline", "evidence_type": "official program/competition page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment.", "source_id": "src-7a78722fff1e" }, { "title": "2027 REPI Challenge Request for Proposals", "url": "https://www.repi.mil/Portals/44/2027%20REPI%20Challenge%20RFP_FINAL_v2.pdf", "locator": "Printed p.1, Goal and Background; § 2684a/§ 2679/§ 670c-1 authority list", "evidence_type": "official funding solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Released April 30, 2026 per program page; PDF publication day not separately asserted.", "source_id": "src-d79c552d544a" }, { "title": "REPI program current announcements", "url": "https://www.repi.mil/", "locator": "2026 REPI Challenge funding recipients; program administration", "evidence_type": "official program status page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Read indexed current announcements; totals attributed to cycle, not unallocated funds.", "source_id": "src-f8ffce4c0db4" } ], "research_scope": "Searched currentREPI cycles and exact2684a linkage; distinguished announced2026 awards from prospective2027 funding and dated preproposal intake." }, { "record_id": "IND-45", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "DLA Energy has a dedicated utilities-privatization contracting function; the Service remains responsible for its program and project decisions.", "routes": [ { "program": "Military utilities privatization", "administering_office": "DLA Energy Utility Services for supported procurements; Service utility-program owner", "audience": "Qualified utility-system owners/operators competing for installation-specific work", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Statutory transfer findings, competition, cost-effectiveness and system reliability requirements apply.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2688", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2688&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2688", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a8bb954f74ba" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The Service sets execution priorities; the contracting organization establishes procurement milestones and issues the actual solicitation.", "source": { "title": "DLA utilities privatization RFP release schedule, March 2, 2026", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Energy/Utility%20Services/FY26%20Updates/E_UPRFPRELEASESCHEDULEFY26_260302.pdf?ver=geivLdeP8Q2BBQoh3Geuqw%3D%3D", "locator": "Footnote5", "evidence_type": "official procurement forecast", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-03-02", "source_id": "src-0ef9539b35d2" } } ], "status": { "label": "Program documented; forecast is nonbinding", "as_of": "2026-03-02", "text": "DLA publishes a 2026 release schedule expressly warning that projected actions are not obligations.", "source": { "title": "DLA utilities privatization RFP release schedule, March 2, 2026", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Energy/Utility%20Services/FY26%20Updates/E_UPRFPRELEASESCHEDULEFY26_260302.pdf?ver=geivLdeP8Q2BBQoh3Geuqw%3D%3D", "locator": "Schedule footnotes2–5: projected releases, noncommitment, Service/contracting responsibilities", "evidence_type": "official procurement forecast", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-03-02", "source_id": "src-0ef9539b35d2" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Long-term utility service payments support privately owned systems; a 50-year maximum is not an upfront grant.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2688", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2688&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2688", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a8bb954f74ba" }, "kind": "utility-service payments", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Forecast dates and projected36-month award timing are informational and may change or be terminated.", "source": { "title": "DLA utilities privatization RFP release schedule, March 2, 2026", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Energy/Utility%20Services/FY26%20Updates/E_UPRFPRELEASESCHEDULEFY26_260302.pdf?ver=geivLdeP8Q2BBQoh3Geuqw%3D%3D", "locator": "Footnotes2–3", "evidence_type": "official procurement forecast", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-03-02", "source_id": "src-0ef9539b35d2" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DLA Energy Utility Services", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Energy/Services/Utility-Services/", "type": "program/contracting route", "scope": "Review the particular utility-system solicitation; forecasts are not offers or commitments." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DLA’s Utility Services mission expressly identifies 10 USC 2688.", "source": { "title": "DLA Energy Utility Services", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Energy/Services/Utility-Services/", "locator": "Utilities privatization contracting mission and10 USC2688", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment.", "source_id": "src-e8fd3082c887" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No currently open named utility-system solicitation or final FY 2026 privatization award was verified; service-level findings remain project-specific." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2688", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2688&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2688", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-a8bb954f74ba" }, { "title": "DLA Energy Utility Services", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Energy/Services/Utility-Services/", "locator": "Utilities privatization contracting mission and10 USC2688", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed passage inspected; direct retrieval returned HTTP403 or failed in this environment.", "source_id": "src-e8fd3082c887" }, { "title": "DLA utilities privatization RFP release schedule, March 2, 2026", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Portals/104/Documents/Energy/Utility%20Services/FY26%20Updates/E_UPRFPRELEASESCHEDULEFY26_260302.pdf?ver=geivLdeP8Q2BBQoh3Geuqw%3D%3D", "locator": "Schedule footnotes2–5: projected releases, noncommitment, Service/contracting responsibilities", "evidence_type": "official procurement forecast", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-03-02", "source_id": "src-0ef9539b35d2" }, { "title": "DLA Energy support to Fort Hood: utilities privatization success story", "url": "https://www.dla.mil/About-DLA/News/News-Article-View/Article/2919162/energy-support-to-fort-hood-a-utilities-privatization-success-story/", "locator": "DLA Energy privatization example and § 2688 reference", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical article; current Fort Hood nomenclature and contract position not inferred.", "source_id": "src-962ffa61097a" } ], "research_scope": "Read DLA program page and March 2026 forecast footnotes; checked a historical Fort Hood implementation account rather than interpreting forecast as current availability." }, { "record_id": "IND-46", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "DoD long-term power purchases have a published § 2922a solicitation model; they buy energy from a project and are not federal credit assistance.", "routes": [ { "program": "DoD long-term energy purchase agreement", "administering_office": "Service installation energy/contracting office, supported by DLA Energy or USACE/NAVFAC as assigned", "audience": "Energy developers competing to serve an identified government power requirement", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "FEMP’s Camp Roberts example seeks a fixed-price energy-production facility arrangement for no more than30 years under § 2922a.", "source": { "title": "FEMP sample federal on-site power-purchase documents", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/sample-documents-federal-site-renewable-power-purchase-agreements", "locator": "Requests for Proposal Samples: Camp Roberts § 2922a RFP", "evidence_type": "official procurement sample collection", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fc3917ab02c0" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Develop the requirement and authorized land-use instrument, obtain required approval and compete the actual power-purchase agreement.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2922a", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2922a&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2922a", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-aed0150b8ebd" } } ], "status": { "label": "Authority-specific model documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "FEMP publishes the Camp Roberts RFP among completed-project samples.", "source": { "title": "FEMP sample federal on-site power-purchase documents", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/sample-documents-federal-site-renewable-power-purchase-agreements", "locator": "Requests for Proposal Samples: Camp Roberts § 2922a RFP", "evidence_type": "official procurement sample collection", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fc3917ab02c0" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Private project financing is recovered through contracted energy purchases; contract authority does not confer a loan or guarantee.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2922a", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2922a&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2922a", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-aed0150b8ebd" }, "kind": "long-term energy purchases", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "§ 2922a approval/term limits and energy-security considerations remain; § 2917 geothermal development is a separate statutory component.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2922a", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2922a&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2922a", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-aed0150b8ebd" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "FEMP power-purchase solicitation examples", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/sample-documents-federal-site-renewable-power-purchase-agreements", "type": "historical solicitation templates", "scope": "Camp Roberts example shows § 2922a structure; no claim that its old RFP remains open." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The published solicitation sample expressly names 10 USC 2922a; it is not inferred from a generic renewable-energy project.", "source": { "title": "FEMP sample federal on-site power-purchase documents", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/sample-documents-federal-site-renewable-power-purchase-agreements", "locator": "Requests for Proposal Samples: Camp Roberts § 2922a RFP", "evidence_type": "official procurement sample collection", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fc3917ab02c0" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current procurement, project price, final approval and local interconnection/land rights not verified; sampled RFP is historical." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2922a", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2922a&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2922a", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-aed0150b8ebd" }, { "title": "FEMP sample federal on-site power-purchase documents", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/sample-documents-federal-site-renewable-power-purchase-agreements", "locator": "Requests for Proposal Samples: Camp Roberts § 2922a RFP", "evidence_type": "official procurement sample collection", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fc3917ab02c0" }, { "title": "FEMP federal on-site distributed-energy procurement options", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/federal-site-distributed-energy-procurement-options", "locator": "ESPC, UESC and On-Site Electricity Purchase Contracts sections", "evidence_type": "official process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cdf73a701302" }, { "title": "Department of Navy Strategy for Renewable Energy", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/eie/Documents/DoNStrategyforRenewableEnergy.pdf", "locator": "Printed pp.6–7: NAVFAC acquisition role, geothermal§ 2917 and sale§ 2916", "evidence_type": "official strategy/process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical strategy; publication date not verified from accessed passage.", "source_id": "src-9dc9e836c635" } ], "research_scope": "Searched exact2922a federal PPA guidance and official sample documents; separated utility privatization, ESPC and real-estate leases." }, { "record_id": "IND-47", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "ESPC has a defined process from audit through performance and an actual 2025 Huntsville MATOC award. The $3 billion figure is contract capacity, not cash granted to 18 firms.", "routes": [ { "program": "Federal/Army energy savings performance contracting", "administering_office": "Installation sponsor and contracting officer; USACE Huntsville ESPC program or DOE FEMP-supported agency vehicle", "audience": "Qualified ESCOs and federal facility customers", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Energy savings must cover annual payments, savings guarantees and measurement/verification are mandatory, and terms cannot exceed25 years.", "source": { "title": "FEMP About Federal ESPCs", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/about-federal-energy-savings-performance-contracts", "locator": "Audit, financing, savings guarantee, measurement/verification and25-year limit", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ebe7ecaa1e45" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Select an ESCO for potential award, perform the facility audit, negotiate measures and guaranteed savings, arrange financing, then administer performance.", "source": { "title": "FEMP About Federal ESPCs", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/about-federal-energy-savings-performance-contracts", "locator": "Audit, financing, savings guarantee, measurement/verification and25-year limit", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ebe7ecaa1e45" } } ], "status": { "label": "Contract vehicle awarded", "as_of": "2025-06-09", "text": "Huntsville awarded MATOC IV on June 9, 2025; orders are competed among 18 contract holders.", "source": { "title": "Huntsville Center awards$3 billion energy-resilience MATOC IV", "url": "https://www.hnc.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/4212071/huntsville-center-awards-3-billion-energy-resilience-infrastructure-modernizati/", "locator": "June 9 award;18 ESCOs; order competition; task-order funding", "evidence_type": "official contract-award announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-06-10", "source_id": "src-5f0a8e5c3ce0" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The$3 billion MATOC amount is aggregate contract capacity; work locations and funding are determined by individual task orders.", "source": { "title": "Huntsville Center awards$3 billion energy-resilience MATOC IV", "url": "https://www.hnc.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/4212071/huntsville-center-awards-3-billion-energy-resilience-infrastructure-modernizati/", "locator": "June 9 award;18 ESCOs; order competition; task-order funding", "evidence_type": "official contract-award announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-06-10", "source_id": "src-5f0a8e5c3ce0" }, "kind": "contract ceiling", "period": "2025 MATOC IV award" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The10-year MATOC ordering period is different from the25-year maximum individual ESPC term.", "source": { "title": "Huntsville Center ESPC MATOC IV program account", "url": "https://www.hnc.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/4212113/huntsville-center-awards-3-billion-energy-resilience-contracts/", "locator": "Ten-year ordering period and small-business on-ramping opportunities", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-06-10", "source_id": "src-b6375dd1c3aa" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "FEMP ESPC process and federal-project assistance", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/about-federal-energy-savings-performance-contracts", "type": "program/process guidance", "scope": "Agency project assistance and contract options; firms must qualify for the chosen vehicle or actual competition." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "FEMP’s procurement-options page explicitly ties ESPC to 42 USC 8287; the Huntsville award demonstrates use of that contract type.", "source": { "title": "FEMP federal on-site distributed-energy procurement options", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/federal-site-distributed-energy-procurement-options", "locator": "ESPC section", "evidence_type": "official process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cdf73a701302" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current small-business on-ramp timing and task-order opportunities were not verified; announced capacity is not remaining availability." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "42 U.S.C. § 8287", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section8287&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "42 U.S.C. § 8287", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-b3eb182eea02" }, { "title": "FEMP About Federal ESPCs", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/about-federal-energy-savings-performance-contracts", "locator": "Audit, financing, savings guarantee, measurement/verification and25-year limit", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ebe7ecaa1e45" }, { "title": "FEMP federal on-site distributed-energy procurement options", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/federal-site-distributed-energy-procurement-options", "locator": "ESPC, UESC and On-Site Electricity Purchase Contracts sections", "evidence_type": "official process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cdf73a701302" }, { "title": "Huntsville Center awards$3 billion energy-resilience MATOC IV", "url": "https://www.hnc.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/4212071/huntsville-center-awards-3-billion-energy-resilience-infrastructure-modernizati/", "locator": "June 9 award;18 ESCOs; order competition; task-order funding", "evidence_type": "official contract-award announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-06-10", "source_id": "src-5f0a8e5c3ce0" }, { "title": "Huntsville Center ESPC MATOC IV program account", "url": "https://www.hnc.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/4212113/huntsville-center-awards-3-billion-energy-resilience-contracts/", "locator": "Ten-year ordering period and small-business on-ramping opportunities", "evidence_type": "official agency news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-06-10", "source_id": "src-b6375dd1c3aa" } ], "research_scope": "Reviewed FEMP implementation and actual Huntsville award/news; distinguished IDIQ ceiling, ordering period, project term and task-order commitments." }, { "record_id": "IND-48", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "UESCs use the installation’s eligible serving utility and a limited-source acquisition process; they differ from the ESCO savings-guarantee model.", "routes": [ { "program": "Utility energy service contracts and utility incentives", "administering_office": "Installation energy and contracting officials; eligible serving utility; FEMP technical support", "audience": "Federal facilities and their qualifying franchised gas/water/electric utility providers", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "UESCs are limited-source arrangements with eligible serving utilities for energy/water efficiency or demand reduction.", "source": { "title": "FEMP About Utility Energy Service Contracts", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/about-utility-energy-service-contracts", "locator": "Serving utility, financing, authority list and Existing Contracts", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-5a0e003ed49b" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Check existing GSA areawide/basic agreements; plan the project and prepare the justification for other than full/open competition before utility negotiations.", "source": { "title": "FEMP UESC Phase1: Acquisition Planning", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/federal-uesc-process-phase-1-acquisition-planning", "locator": "Initial J&A for other than full/open competition; statutory citations", "evidence_type": "official process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-903700a02f34" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published process and 2025 assurance guide", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "FEMP maintains UESC procedures and a 2025 performance-assurance guide explicitly citing DoD § 2913.", "source": { "title": "UESC Performance Assurance Planning Guide2025", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/uesc-performance-assurance-planning-guide-2025.pdf", "locator": "Executive Summary: authorities and performance assurance", "evidence_type": "official technical/process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-821d41083fd6" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The utility may arrange financing; an agency can combine appropriations and financing to pay for improvements.", "source": { "title": "FEMP About Utility Energy Service Contracts", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/about-utility-energy-service-contracts", "locator": "Serving utility, financing, authority list and Existing Contracts", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-5a0e003ed49b" }, "kind": "utility/third-party finance and appropriations", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "UESCs lack the ESPC statutory annual-savings test but must remain life-cycle cost-effective; performance assurance matters for annual scoring.", "source": { "title": "FEMP federal on-site distributed-energy procurement options", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/federal-site-distributed-energy-procurement-options", "locator": "UESC section", "evidence_type": "official process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cdf73a701302" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "FEMP UESC program and utility team", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/about-utility-energy-service-contracts", "type": "technical/process guidance", "scope": "Federal customer support and serving-utility route, not an unrestricted developer loan application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "FEMP’s authority list expressly includes 10 USC 2913, separate from government-wide 42 USC 8256.", "source": { "title": "FEMP About Utility Energy Service Contracts", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/about-utility-energy-service-contracts", "locator": "Serving utility, financing, authority list and Existing Contracts", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-5a0e003ed49b" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No installation-specific serving-utility eligibility, approved J&A, rebate or project financial terms verified; § 2913(d) custody/receipt rules require transaction review." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2913(b)-(d)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2913&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2913(b)-(d)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-0312147dbd62" }, { "title": "FEMP About Utility Energy Service Contracts", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/about-utility-energy-service-contracts", "locator": "Serving utility, financing, authority list and Existing Contracts", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-5a0e003ed49b" }, { "title": "FEMP UESC Phase1: Acquisition Planning", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/federal-uesc-process-phase-1-acquisition-planning", "locator": "Initial J&A for other than full/open competition; statutory citations", "evidence_type": "official process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-903700a02f34" }, { "title": "UESC Performance Assurance Planning Guide2025", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/uesc-performance-assurance-planning-guide-2025.pdf", "locator": "Executive Summary: authorities and performance assurance", "evidence_type": "official technical/process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-821d41083fd6" }, { "title": "FEMP federal on-site distributed-energy procurement options", "url": "https://www.energy.gov/cmei/femp/federal-site-distributed-energy-procurement-options", "locator": "ESPC, UESC and On-Site Electricity Purchase Contracts sections", "evidence_type": "official process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cdf73a701302" } ], "research_scope": "Reviewed currentFEMP programme, acquisition-planning phase and2025 assurance guide; did not import ESPC guarantees into UESC eligibility." }, { "record_id": "IND-49", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "The Navy’s own energy strategy links China Lake’s contractor-run geothermal electricity sales to § 2916; the evidence is historical, not a current electricity-sale offer.", "routes": [ { "program": "Sale of alternate-energy/cogeneration electricity: Navy geothermal example", "administering_office": "Secretary of the Navy and NAVFAC energy/utility contracting organization for the relevant project", "audience": "Authorized operators and purchasing public/private utilities", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Electricity must come from eligible facilities or land under the Service Secretary’s jurisdiction; utility-law conditions apply.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2916", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2916&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2916", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-773df7fa9aa8" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Develop the acquisition and utility arrangement with NAVFAC; identify separate geothermal development authority where needed.", "source": { "title": "Department of Navy Strategy for Renewable Energy", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/eie/Documents/DoNStrategyforRenewableEnergy.pdf", "locator": "Printed pp.6–7", "evidence_type": "official strategy/process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical strategy; publication date not verified from accessed passage.", "source_id": "src-9dc9e836c635" } } ], "status": { "label": "Historical example documented", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The Navy strategy identifies the contractor-operated China Lake plant selling electricity to the grid.", "source": { "title": "Department of Navy Installation Energy Resilience Strategy", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/eie/Documents/DON-Installation-Energy-Resilience-Strategy.pdf", "locator": "Tools Summary: sale of electricity; China Lake geothermal example; reference10 USC2916", "evidence_type": "official strategy/implementation example", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical strategy; old UMC thresholds elsewhere are not used as current law.", "source_id": "src-12958da4441d" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "The strategy describes retention of a portion of sale proceeds for energy-security projects; current geothermal statutory distribution rules control.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2916", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2916&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2916", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-773df7fa9aa8" }, "kind": "restricted electricity-sale receipts", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Generation sales are not a promise that DoD will buy all output; current interconnection, pricing and receipt availability remain separate.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2916", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2916&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2916", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-773df7fa9aa8" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Navy energy-resilience strategy: sale-of-electricity tool", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/eie/Documents/DON-Installation-Energy-Resilience-Strategy.pdf", "type": "historical implementation reference", "scope": "China Lake illustrates the sales/receipt model; it is not a current solicitation or offtake commitment." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The strategy’s China Lake example expressly references 10 USC 2916.", "source": { "title": "Department of Navy Installation Energy Resilience Strategy", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/eie/Documents/DON-Installation-Energy-Resilience-Strategy.pdf", "locator": "Tools Summary: sale of electricity; China Lake geothermal example; reference10 USC2916", "evidence_type": "official strategy/implementation example", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical strategy; old UMC thresholds elsewhere are not used as current law.", "source_id": "src-12958da4441d" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current China Lake contract, revenue, generation status and any open sale/operating competition not established; strategy material is not treated as current deployment certification." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2916", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2916&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2916", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-773df7fa9aa8" }, { "title": "Department of Navy Installation Energy Resilience Strategy", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/eie/Documents/DON-Installation-Energy-Resilience-Strategy.pdf", "locator": "Tools Summary: sale of electricity; China Lake geothermal example; reference10 USC2916", "evidence_type": "official strategy/implementation example", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical strategy; old UMC thresholds elsewhere are not used as current law.", "source_id": "src-12958da4441d" }, { "title": "Department of Navy Strategy for Renewable Energy", "url": "https://www.secnav.navy.mil/eie/Documents/DoNStrategyforRenewableEnergy.pdf", "locator": "Printed pp.6–7: NAVFAC acquisition role, geothermal§ 2917 and sale§ 2916", "evidence_type": "official strategy/process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical strategy; publication date not verified from accessed passage.", "source_id": "src-9dc9e836c635" } ], "research_scope": "Searched exact2916 and ChinaLake official sources; used explicit Navy authority-example linkage, rejecting unrelated news and statutory restatements as operating proof." }, { "record_id": "IND-50", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "A published Utah Data Center exchange proposal expressly invoked § 2869 and documents the appraisal/environmental-review pathway, but no completed deed was verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "Military land exchange: Mountain View Corridor example", "administering_office": "Holding military department and USACE real-estate officials; NSA mission sponsor and Utah Department of Transportation in this example", "audience": "Government project sponsors and eligible exchange counterparties", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Exchange must satisfy value and mission requirements; the draft proposes about93federal acres for90state acres.", "source": { "title": "Mountain View Corridor exchange: draft FONSI", "url": "https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Portals/63/docs/Utah%20Data%20Center/ULE_Draft_FONSI%5B1%5D.pdf", "locator": "§ 1 Proposed Action; value-for-value93-acre/90-acre exchange;10 USC2869", "evidence_type": "official environmental planning document", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Draft project planning evidence, not a signed conveyance; accompanying EA dated June 2022.", "source_id": "src-b897f69d4b7b" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The package includes environmental assessment, environmental-baseline review and draft suitability-to-transfer documentation.", "source": { "title": "USACE Mountain View Corridor public notice", "url": "https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/Public-Notices/Tag/226631/utah-data-center/", "locator": "June 2022 notice; comment deadline and links to EA/FOST", "evidence_type": "official public notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed notice and attachments reviewed; 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value-for-value93-acre/90-acre exchange;10 USC2869", "evidence_type": "official environmental planning document", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Draft project planning evidence, not a signed conveyance; accompanying EA dated June 2022.", "source_id": "src-b897f69d4b7b" }, "kind": "land-for-land exchange", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The separate services/facilities pilot requires its own applicable guidance/window; this land-for-land example does not establish pilot eligibility.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2869", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2869&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2869", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-8a560d7c5134" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Read Mountain View Corridor exchange planning documents", "url": "https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/Public-Notices/Tag/226631/utah-data-center/", "type": "historical public-review record", "scope": "The July 2022 comment period is closed; this is process evidence, not available land or a current offer." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Draft FONSI § 1 expressly names 10 USC 2869.", "source": { "title": "Mountain View Corridor exchange: draft FONSI", "url": "https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Portals/63/docs/Utah%20Data%20Center/ULE_Draft_FONSI%5B1%5D.pdf", "locator": "§ 1 Proposed Action; value-for-value93-acre/90-acre exchange;10 USC2869", "evidence_type": "official environmental planning document", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Draft project planning evidence, not a signed conveyance; accompanying EA dated June 2022.", "source_id": "src-b897f69d4b7b" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Signed conveyance, final acreage/appraisal, congressional notices and current status were not obtained; no authority-specific proof of the services/facilities pilot implementation window found." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2869", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2869&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2869", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-8a560d7c5134" }, { "title": "Mountain View Corridor exchange: draft FONSI", "url": "https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Portals/63/docs/Utah%20Data%20Center/ULE_Draft_FONSI%5B1%5D.pdf", "locator": "§ 1 Proposed Action; value-for-value93-acre/90-acre exchange;10 USC2869", "evidence_type": "official environmental planning document", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Draft project planning evidence, not a signed conveyance; accompanying EA dated June 2022.", "source_id": "src-b897f69d4b7b" }, { "title": "USACE Mountain View Corridor public notice", "url": "https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Missions/Regulatory/Public-Notices/Tag/226631/utah-data-center/", "locator": "June 2022 notice; comment deadline and links to EA/FOST", "evidence_type": "official public notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed notice and attachments reviewed; historic comment window ended July 2022.", "source_id": "src-e8174dffa6ad" } ], "research_scope": "Searched exact2869 Army/Navy exchange examples; inspected Utah official draft package, separating older consultation acreage and proposed final planning acreage from executed deeds." }, { "record_id": "IND-51", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "GSA publishes real-property disposal routes with actual completed transactions; excess property is screened before surplus sales, and public-benefit eligibility is not universal.", "routes": [ { "program": "Federal excess/surplus real-property disposition", "administering_office": "Landholding military department and GSA Real Property Disposition; sponsoring agency for a public-benefit conveyance", "audience": "Other federal agencies, eligible public/nonprofit entities, or public bidders depending on disposition stage", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Property is excess to the holding agency before federal screening; only surplus property advances to nonfederal disposal.", "source": { "title": "GSA Your Guide to Acquiring Federal Real Estate for Public Uses", "url": "https://disposal.gsa.gov/resource/1530028366000/AcquiringFederalRealEstateForPublicUses", "locator": "Printed p.5, disposal methods in order of progression", "evidence_type": "official process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical official guide inspected in indexed text. Main audit returned HTTP 401; independent recheck returned HTTP 200 on 2026-10-04. Current discovery: https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-property-disposition.", "source_id": "src-0e4eb7224512" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Follow the proper disposition channel and transaction conditions; environmental and historical reviews are separate due-diligence steps.", "source": { "title": "GSA Environmental Framework for Real Property Disposal", "url": "https://disposal.gsa.gov/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=01530000002AfMg", "locator": "Foreword; SF118 excess-real-property checklist and environmental due diligence", "evidence_type": "historical official process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "January 2010 guide; use for document/process identification, not current environmental-law certification.", "source_id": "src-3f48a896d03a" } } ], "status": { "label": "Completed transaction example", "as_of": "2024-06", "text": "GSA reports the Titan Missile Museum negotiated sale completed in June 2024 for $650,000 fair-market value.", "source": { "title": "GSA helps local community maintain slice of U.S. history", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/about-gsa/newsroom/former-gsa-regional-news-archive/region-9-newsroom/feature-stories/gsa-helps-local-community-maintain-slice-of-us-history-08132024", "locator": "Titan Missile Museum negotiated-sale paragraphs; 40 USC chapter 5 process", "evidence_type": "official completed-transaction news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-08-13", "source_id": "src-ef0504556cd6" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Sale proceeds and public-benefit discounts differ; the museum example is a paid negotiated sale, not a free transfer.", "source": { "title": "GSA helps local community maintain slice of U.S. history", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/about-gsa/newsroom/former-gsa-regional-news-archive/region-9-newsroom/feature-stories/gsa-helps-local-community-maintain-slice-of-us-history-08132024", "locator": "Titan Missile Museum negotiated-sale paragraphs; 40 USC chapter 5 process", "evidence_type": "official completed-transaction news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-08-13", "source_id": "src-ef0504556cd6" }, "kind": "completed real-property sale", "period": "June 2024" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "BRAC disposal, conservation conveyances and public-benefit transfers retain their distinct statutory rules; not every property follows every disposal step.", "source": { "title": "40 U.S.C. § 541", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section541&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "40 U.S.C. § 541", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-31063dd51587" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "GSA real-property disposition routes", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-property-disposition", "type": "property listings/process", "scope": "Choose federal transfer, eligible public-use conveyance or the actual public sale; property availability is listing-specific." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "GSA’s transaction account expressly identifies 40 USC chapter 5 as the disposition framework.", "source": { "title": "GSA helps local community maintain slice of U.S. history", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/about-gsa/newsroom/former-gsa-regional-news-archive/region-9-newsroom/feature-stories/gsa-helps-local-community-maintain-slice-of-us-history-08132024", "locator": "Titan Missile Museum negotiated-sale paragraphs; 40 USC chapter 5 process", "evidence_type": "official completed-transaction news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-08-13", "source_id": "src-ef0504556cd6" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No current military parcel inventory was exhaustively checked; individual title, environmental liabilities, agency delegation and sale terms remain property-specific." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "40 U.S.C. § 541", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title40-section541&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "40 U.S.C. § 541", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-31063dd51587" }, { "title": "GSA Real Property Disposition", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-property-disposition", "locator": "Ways we sell; Federal agencies; public-use and individual-bidder routes", "evidence_type": "official program/process page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6cf87764f88a" }, { "title": "GSA Your Guide to Acquiring Federal Real Estate for Public Uses", "url": "https://disposal.gsa.gov/resource/1530028366000/AcquiringFederalRealEstateForPublicUses", "locator": "Printed p.5, disposal methods in order of progression", "evidence_type": "official process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Historical official guide inspected in indexed text. Main audit returned HTTP 401; independent recheck returned HTTP 200 on 2026-10-04. Current discovery: https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-property-disposition.", "source_id": "src-0e4eb7224512" }, { "title": "GSA Environmental Framework for Real Property Disposal", "url": "https://disposal.gsa.gov/servlet/servlet.FileDownload?file=01530000002AfMg", "locator": "Foreword; SF118 excess-real-property checklist and environmental due diligence", "evidence_type": "historical official process guide", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "January 2010 guide; use for document/process identification, not current environmental-law certification. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 401 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications.", "source_id": "src-3f48a896d03a" }, { "title": "GSA helps local community maintain slice of U.S. history", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/about-gsa/newsroom/former-gsa-regional-news-archive/region-9-newsroom/feature-stories/gsa-helps-local-community-maintain-slice-of-us-history-08132024", "locator": "Titan Missile Museum negotiated-sale paragraphs; 40 USC chapter 5 process", "evidence_type": "official completed-transaction news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-08-13", "source_id": "src-ef0504556cd6" } ], "research_scope": "Reviewed GSA real-property—not personal-property—disposition guidance and a completed former-military-property transaction; separated negotiated sale from public-benefit transfer." }, { "record_id": "IND-52", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "USACE publishes FUDS eligibility and cleanup procedures, with 2026 response actions and continuing review examples; cleanup completion cannot be inferred from one excavation phase.", "routes": [ { "program": "Defense Environmental Restoration: Formerly Used Defense Sites", "administering_office": "Army as lead agent; USACE geographic district and supporting technical centers; environmental regulators", "audience": "Eligible former defense properties and affected stakeholders; cleanup contractors through procurement", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "FUDS generally covers former DoD-controlled property transferred before October 17,1986, subject to transfer terms and environmental responsibility.", "source": { "title": "USACE ER200-3-1 FUDS Program Regulation", "url": "https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/Portals/76/Publications/EngineerRegulations/ER%20200-3-1.pdf", "locator": "§ 1.2", "evidence_type": "official implementing regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed full section inspected; precise revision day not verified.", "source_id": "src-52c2c7ceb50e" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Use preliminary assessment to establish property/project eligibility, then the applicable investigation, remedy and public-involvement process.", "source": { "title": "Huntsville Center FUDS program fact sheet", "url": "https://www.hnc.usace.army.mil/Media/Fact-Sheets/Fact-Sheet-Article-View/Article/482110/formerly-used-defense-sites/", "locator": "Program Development, delegated USACE execution, Preliminary Assessment and response stages", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Originally2013; 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not a general reimbursement grant to every landowner." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "USACE’s program account identifies § 2701 and delegated Army/USACE execution.", "source": { "title": "Huntsville Center FUDS program fact sheet", "url": "https://www.hnc.usace.army.mil/Media/Fact-Sheets/Fact-Sheet-Article-View/Article/482110/formerly-used-defense-sites/", "locator": "Program Development, delegated USACE execution, Preliminary Assessment and response stages", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Originally2013; explicitly updated October 20, 2025.", "source_id": "src-565b87c40adf" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No site-specific FY 2026 allocation, approved remedy cost or PFAS determination obtained; military-operation history alone does not establish all cleanup eligibility." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2701", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2701&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2701", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-327b1fbe7bc8" }, { "title": "Huntsville Center FUDS program fact sheet", "url": "https://www.hnc.usace.army.mil/Media/Fact-Sheets/Fact-Sheet-Article-View/Article/482110/formerly-used-defense-sites/", "locator": "Program Development, delegated USACE execution, Preliminary Assessment and response stages", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Originally2013; explicitly updated October 20, 2025.", "source_id": "src-565b87c40adf" }, { "title": "USACE ER200-3-1 FUDS Program Regulation", "url": "https://www.publications.usace.army.mil/Portals/76/Publications/EngineerRegulations/ER%20200-3-1.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 1 §§ 1.1–1.3, delegated authority, eligibility and CERCLA framework", "evidence_type": "official implementing regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Indexed full section inspected; precise revision day not verified.", "source_id": "src-52c2c7ceb50e" }, { "title": "USACE wraps up current Buxton FUDS excavation", "url": "https://www.sas.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/4506197/corps-of-engineers-wraps-up-work-at-buxton-fuds-property-for-now/", "locator": "May 28, 2026 excavation completion and planned further sampling", "evidence_type": "official agency project-status news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-06-02", "source_id": "src-3f1f24df530b" }, { "title": "USACE Waikoloa fifth five-year review notice", "url": "https://www.poh.usace.army.mil/Media/Public-Notices/Article/4507131/public-notice-five-year-review-formerly-used-defense-site-waikoloa-maneuver-are/", "locator": "Review signed May 22, 2026; 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the portal is not unrestricted intake.", "source": { "title": "OLDCC Grant Management and Administration", "url": "https://www.oldcc.gov/grant-management-administration", "locator": "Portal restriction; grant manuals; federal laws", "evidence_type": "official grants process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-30ad57dfb277" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "Mission Realignment assistance", "url": "https://oldcc.gov/our-programs/mission-realignment", "type": "needs-based program information", "scope": "Coordinate the community response through OLDCC; assistance is tailored, not a general company expansion grant." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "OLDCC’s office statement identifies § 2391 and EO 12788 coordination; the mission page describes the adjustment process without assigning every activity to one subsection.", "source": { "title": "OLDCC mission and authorities", "url": "https://www.oldcc.gov/our-mission", "locator": "Our Authorities:10 USC2391; EO12788 coordination role", "evidence_type": "official office/authority statement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-58dc98b0bdd9" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No current general industrial-diversification funding call or FY 2026 allocation for a proposed project verified; FY 2026 newly expanded healthcare/housing powers are not assumed fully implemented by existing webpages." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2391(a)-(c)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2391&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2391(a)-(c)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-156391ccccb5" }, { "title": "OLDCC Installation Readiness", "url": "https://www.oldcc.gov/our-programs/installation-readiness", "locator": "Eligibility, nomination process, unmanned-systems pause and recent examples", "evidence_type": "official program/current status page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full page inspected; direct fetch timed out. 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This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "OLDCC Mission Realignment", "url": "https://oldcc.gov/our-programs/mission-realignment", "locator": "Eligibility, redevelopment-authority recognition, technical assistance and other realignment actions", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cafede320fa1", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "OLDCC mission and authorities", "url": "https://www.oldcc.gov/our-mission", "locator": "Our Authorities:10 USC2391; EO12788 coordination role", "evidence_type": "official office/authority statement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-58dc98b0bdd9", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "OLDCC Grant Management and Administration", "url": "https://www.oldcc.gov/grant-management-administration", "locator": "Portal restriction; grant manuals; federal laws", "evidence_type": "official grants process guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-30ad57dfb277", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "OLDCC FY 2024 grant awards as of July 26, 2024", "url": "https://oldcc.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07-26_FY24%20OLDCC%20Grant%20Awards.pdf", "locator": "Mission Realignment:Port of Morrow award row", "evidence_type": "official grant-award register", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-07-26", "source_id": "src-9a97591b2a3c", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "Read OLDCC current program/nomination/portal rules and award register; searched defense-industry adjustment terms and distinguished specific operating programs from statutory expansion." }, { "record_id": "IND-54", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "FY 2026 DCIP has completed its reported award round: 26 grants totaling about $230 million. Eligibility, ownership and commander-support requirements are concrete and program-specific.", "routes": [ { "program": "Defense Community Infrastructure Program", "administering_office": "OLDCC grants officials and program review panel under installations/environment leadership", "audience": "State/local governments and not-for-profit member-owned utilities; ineligible partners only through compliant arrangements", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Projects must be owned by an eligible entity and be within listed U.S. jurisdictions; on-installation projects require an eligible real-estate agreement.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 DCIP NOFO Frequently Asked Questions, May 15version", "url": "https://oldcc.gov/sites/default/files/2026-05/2026-05-15_fy26_dcip_nofo_faqs_final.pdf", "locator": "Questions2–4", "evidence_type": "official funding-opportunity guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-05-15", "source_id": "src-bb9ff26e41a2" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Prepare the project scope, site-control/schedule/funding evidence and installation commander support; 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these are awards/leverage, not a remaining grant balance.", "source": { "title": "OLDCC Defense Community Infrastructure Program", "url": "https://oldcc.gov/our-programs/defense-community-infrastructure-program", "locator": "Eligibility and Requirements; FY 2026 program; September 22 awards", "evidence_type": "official program/award register", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Current indexed page reviewed; direct fetch returned502; older paginated cache still lacks2026results.", "source_id": "src-283a646fce53" }, "kind": "awarded appropriated grants and partner funding", "period": "FY 2026" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Cost overruns fall to the grantee; soft planning/design costs may count only as permitted nonfederal match.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 DCIP NOFO Frequently Asked Questions, May 15version", "url": "https://oldcc.gov/sites/default/files/2026-05/2026-05-15_fy26_dcip_nofo_faqs_final.pdf", "locator": "Question49", "evidence_type": "official funding-opportunity guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-05-15", "source_id": "src-bb9ff26e41a2" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DCIP official program, awards and guidance", "url": "https://oldcc.gov/our-programs/defense-community-infrastructure-program", "type": "program/status route", "scope": "FY 2026 award round reported complete; no next-round open deadline was verified." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "OLDCC expressly identifies DCIP as 10 USC 2391(d), while its FY 2026 FAQs discuss PL 119-60 allocation changes.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 DCIP NOFO Frequently Asked Questions, May 15version", "url": "https://oldcc.gov/sites/default/files/2026-05/2026-05-15_fy26_dcip_nofo_faqs_final.pdf", "locator": "Question50", "evidence_type": "official funding-opportunity guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-05-15", "source_id": "src-bb9ff26e41a2" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No FY2027NOFO, new submission window or executed agreement for each announced award independently checked; older paginated programme cache omits2026results and must not override the current main page." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2391(d)-(f)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2391&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 2391(d)-(f)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Legal record read from current corpus; historical fallback and currentness qualifications retained.", "source_id": "src-156391ccccb5" }, { "title": "OLDCC Defense Community Infrastructure Program", "url": "https://oldcc.gov/our-programs/defense-community-infrastructure-program", "locator": "Eligibility and Requirements; FY 2026 program; September 22 awards", "evidence_type": "official program/award register", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Current indexed page reviewed; direct fetch returned502; older paginated cache still lacks2026results. 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This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "FY 2026 DCIP NOFO webinar slides", "url": "https://oldcc.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/DCIP%20FY26%20NOFO%20Webinar%20Slides%201.pdf", "locator": "Slide14, project scoring and commander support; construction readiness factors", "evidence_type": "official funding-opportunity briefing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-81c626d9dbe6", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "Compared current main program page with stale paginated cache; read FY2026FAQs and scoring briefing; distinguished awarded totals and statutory authority from presently open intake." }, { "record_id": "IND-55", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The statutory conditions are clear, but no pilot-specific launch or intake was verified. Relevant PCF policy resources do not establish a loan program or show that borrowing costs are now allowable.", "routes": [ { "program": "Financing-cost allowability pilot — implementation verification route", "administering_office": "Secretary of Defense establishes the pilot; DPCAP Price, Cost and Finance is a relevant policy office, not a verified pilot administrator. 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This is a recommended verification sequence, not a published application process.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 803(a)–(b); inference from statutory prerequisites", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Enacted discretionary authority; implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "Section 803 says the Secretary may establish a pilot. Searches of DPCAP, acquisition.gov and Federal Register did not locate a pilot launch, application procedure or completed prerequisite briefing. Absence of located evidence is not proof none exists.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 803(a),(d); search scope recorded in remaining gaps", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Payments require appropriations; termination liability cannot exceed funds obligated at termination. The provision supplies no new loan/guarantee or appropriated balance.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 803(b)(2),(f)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, "kind": "contract-cost treatment; appropriation condition", "period": "Covered contracts entered before December 31, 2029" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "No pilot cost treatment for covered contracts entered on/after December 31, 2029; report due February 15, 2028 if a pilot exists. A financing entity is not a subcontractor solely through participation.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 803(c),(e),(f)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } }, { "text": "General progress-payment/performance-based-payment resources on PCF pages are not evidence this separate private-borrowing-cost pilot is established.", "source": { "title": "DPCAP Price, Cost and Finance", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/dpc/pcf/index.html", "locator": "Finance-policy resource scope; inference", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4fb8c7159b32" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "DPCAP finance policy reference", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/dpc/pcf/index.html", "type": "policy reference / verify implementation", "scope": "Not a pilot application or government loan portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The enacted provision is Public Law 119-60 § 803, a note to 10 USC 3761. PCF’s general responsibilities provide routing context only; pilot-specific delegation remains unverified.", "source": { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "§ 803 heading and(a)–(g)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } }, "relationship_type": "unverified" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Need establishment memorandum, congressional briefing completion, implementing deviation/regulation, pilot-specific office and covered-contract participation rules.", "Searches: site:acq.osd.mil \"Financing for Covered Activities\"; \"803\" \"financing\" \"2026\"; site:acquisition.gov \"covered activities\" financing; site:federalregister.gov \"financing costs\" \"2026\" defense.", "A guessed legacy class-deviations URL returned404; this is an access gap, not proof no deviation exists." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "FY 2026 NDAA, Public Law 119-60", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Sections 803, 862, 867", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "DPCAP Price, Cost and Finance", "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/asda/dpc/pcf/index.html", "locator": "Directorate responsibilities; pricing and financing policy/resources", "retrieval": { "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "access": "Full primary text read; retrieved 2026-10-04", "http_status": 200 }, "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4fb8c7159b32", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "INT-01", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Two mechanisms are implemented: sponsor-led FCT discovery and testing, and negotiated multinational R&D agreements. They have different intake and award processes.", "routes": [ { "program": "Foreign Comparative Testing", "administering_office": "R&E Foreign Comparative Testing office; service/CCMD sponsors and executing program offices", "audience": "Developers of mature allied/friendly foreign technology; a government sponsor develops the funded project", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "FCT assesses mature technology against a U.S. military requirement; selection considers sponsor endorsement, risk, transition/procurement strategy and cost share.", "source": { "title": "FCT Program Overview 2025", "url": "https://ac.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FCT_101Brief_2025_Approved.pdf", "locator": "Slides 5–6, 10 and 13", "evidence_type": "official program briefing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-05-07", "source_id": "src-f807adcc11f4" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Submit product/company/country/TRL and performance information through the linked discovery portal. Services/CCMDs—not the company alone—submit government project proposals.", "source": { "title": "FCT Program Overview 2025", "url": "https://ac.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FCT_101Brief_2025_Approved.pdf", "locator": "Slides 5–6, 10 and 13", "evidence_type": "official program briefing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-05-07", "source_id": "src-f807adcc11f4" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Government project selection and funding are separate from product-information submission; the brief gives historical program statistics, not an available 2026 funding balance.", "source": { "title": "FCT Program Overview 2025", "url": "https://ac.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FCT_101Brief_2025_Approved.pdf", "locator": "Slides 5–6, 10 and 13", "evidence_type": "official program briefing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-05-07", "source_id": "src-f807adcc11f4" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Test quantities are limited to testing need. Any later procurement requires its own service acquisition decision and applicable statutory conditions.", "source": { "title": "FCT Program Overview 2025", "url": "https://ac.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FCT_101Brief_2025_Approved.pdf", "locator": "Slides 5–6, 10 and 13", "evidence_type": "official program briefing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-05-07", "source_id": "src-f807adcc11f4" } } ], "status": { "label": "Product discovery intake published", "text": "Portal and product template are listed; no specific selection deadline or award is promised.", "source": { "title": "Foreign Comparative Testing program", "url": "https://ac.cto.mil/pe/fct/", "locator": "Purpose; How to Submit; Product Data Sheet", "evidence_type": "official program page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fe0089bb33e3" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "Submit FCT product information", "url": "https://fct-dlx.decisionlens.com/contribute", "type": "public product-discovery submission", "scope": "Listed by the official 2025 briefing; not a stand-alone funding application or commitment." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Official page and briefing explicitly identify section 2350a(g).", "source": { "title": "Foreign Comparative Testing program", "url": "https://ac.cto.mil/pe/fct/", "locator": "Purpose; How to Submit; Product Data Sheet", "evidence_type": "official program page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fe0089bb33e3" } } }, { "program": "International cooperative R&D agreements", "administering_office": "Military-department international-cooperation offices and sponsoring programs", "audience": "Eligible partner governments and their approved project participants", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [], "steps": [ { "text": "Army budget describes negotiated agreements defining scope, costs/work share, management, contracting, security, data protection and third-party transfers.", "source": { "title": "Army FY 2026 RDT&E budget justification, BA 4 A", "url": "https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2026/Discretionary%20Budget/rdte/RDTE%20-%20Vol%202%20-%20Budget%20Activity%204A.pdf", "locator": "International cooperative R&D project mission description, Title 10 section 2350a", "evidence_type": "official budget justification; 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request not appropriation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025", "source_id": "src-e5f66ae33692" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No current project-level appropriation balance, selected test or post-test acquisition established." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "FCT Program Overview 2025", "url": "https://ac.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FCT_101Brief_2025_Approved.pdf", "locator": "Slides 5–6, 10 and 13", "evidence_type": "official program briefing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025-05-07", "source_id": "src-f807adcc11f4" }, { "title": "Foreign Comparative Testing program", "url": "https://ac.cto.mil/pe/fct/", "locator": "Purpose; How to Submit; Product Data Sheet", "evidence_type": "official program page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-fe0089bb33e3" }, { "title": "Army FY 2026 RDT&E budget justification, BA 4 A", "url": "https://www.asafm.army.mil/Portals/72/Documents/BudgetMaterial/2026/Discretionary%20Budget/rdte/RDTE%20-%20Vol%202%20-%20Budget%20Activity%204A.pdf", "locator": "International cooperative R&D project mission description, Title 10 section 2350a", "evidence_type": "official budget justification; request not appropriation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2025", "source_id": "src-e5f66ae33692" }, { "title": "FMR Volume 12 chapter 9 International Agreements", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/Volume_12.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 9 sections 3–5; especially 4.1–4.5 and 5.10", "evidence_type": "official financial implementation regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-01", "source_id": "src-3713a90095ad" } ], "research_scope": "Read original legal record and cited public implementation material; verify current case-specific approvals/funds separately." }, { "record_id": "INT-02", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "An established test-agreement program provides reciprocal facility access with cost controls and later public examples.", "routes": [ { "program": "International Test and Evaluation Program / Reciprocal Use of Test Facilities", "administering_office": "DOT&E and military-department international T&E offices", "audience": "Partner governments and approved U.S./foreign test organizations", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "TEP uses bilateral/multilateral umbrella MOUs and project arrangements for reciprocal facilities, cooperative tests and related exchanges; acquisition/production and education services fall outside the described TEP scope.", "source": { "title": "AFMAN 16-114 International Activities", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/saf_ia/publication/afman16-114/afman16-114.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 4, paragraphs 4.1–4.2, printed p. 28", "evidence_type": "official service manual", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018-10-23", "source_id": "src-4a8a578a0c8c", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text reviewed; direct URL returned 404 in source QA on 2026-10-04. No accessible current successor recovered. Treat October 2018 manual as historical process evidence, not confirmation it remains controlling." } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Establish applicable umbrella agreement, then project arrangement addressing facilities, test work and costs; government proponents coordinate through international T&E channels.", "source": { "title": "AFMAN 16-114 International Activities", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/saf_ia/publication/afman16-114/afman16-114.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 4, paragraphs 4.1–4.2, printed p. 28", "evidence_type": "official service manual", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018-10-23", "source_id": "src-4a8a578a0c8c", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text reviewed; direct URL returned 404 in source QA on 2026-10-04. No accessible current successor recovered. Treat October 2018 manual as historical process evidence, not confirmation it remains controlling." } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "User pays direct costs; indirect costs only as specified in the agreement. This is reciprocal/reimbursable test access, not a grant.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350l", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350l&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-695f231403d3" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Only the signed arrangement and approved scope establish access; a general allied relationship does not grant unrestricted range use.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350l", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350l&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-695f231403d3" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current annual-report use documented", "text": "FY 2025 DOT&E report describes U.K. agreement-supported Formidable Shield 2025 activity; report states an agreement term through November 2027, not guaranteed future access.", "source": { "title": "DOT&E FY 2025 annual report — International Test and Evaluation Program", "url": "https://www.dote.osd.mil/Portals/97/pub/reports/FY2025/dotemanaged/2025itep.pdf?ver=YuL-Nv7S5Qu0rrdm_okwkQ%3D%3D", "locator": "FY 2025 key activities: Formidable Shield 2025 and U.K.RUTF agreement", "evidence_type": "official annual report (indexed; direct PDF fetch 403)", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-480e2b098881" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "DOT&E published TEP implementation evidence", "url": "https://www.dote.osd.mil/Portals/97/pub/reports/FY2025/dotemanaged/2025itep.pdf?ver=YuL-Nv7S5Qu0rrdm_okwkQ%3D%3D", "type": "government test-agreement process reference", "scope": "Official indexed annual-report evidence; direct PDF access403 during review. Not a commercial booking portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "AFMAN chapter 4 explicitly identifies section 2350l; annual report provides later implementation evidence without attributing every ITEP activity solely to it.", "source": { "title": "AFMAN 16-114 International Activities", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/saf_ia/publication/afman16-114/afman16-114.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 4, paragraphs 4.1–4.2, printed p. 28", "evidence_type": "official service manual", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018-10-23", "source_id": "src-4a8a578a0c8c", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text reviewed; direct URL returned 404 in source QA on 2026-10-04. No accessible current successor recovered. Treat October 2018 manual as historical process evidence, not confirmation it remains controlling." } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current country-specific umbrella agreement, project annex, authorization and cost quotation require confirmation; annual-report PDF available only as indexed extracts in this session.", "The 2018 AFMAN link now returns404 despite official indexed text; current manual/successor validity has not been established. Annual-report evidence is separately dated FY2025." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "AFMAN 16-114 International Activities", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/saf_ia/publication/afman16-114/afman16-114.pdf", "locator": "Chapter 4, paragraphs 4.1–4.2, printed p. 28", "evidence_type": "official service manual", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018-10-23", "source_id": "src-4a8a578a0c8c", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text reviewed; direct URL returned 404 in source QA on 2026-10-04. No accessible current successor recovered. Treat October 2018 manual as historical process evidence, not confirmation it remains controlling. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 404 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350l", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350l&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-695f231403d3" }, { "title": "DOT&E FY 2025 annual report — International Test and Evaluation Program", "url": "https://www.dote.osd.mil/Portals/97/pub/reports/FY2025/dotemanaged/2025itep.pdf?ver=YuL-Nv7S5Qu0rrdm_okwkQ%3D%3D", "locator": "FY 2025 key activities: Formidable Shield 2025 and U.K.RUTF agreement", "evidence_type": "official annual report (indexed; direct PDF fetch 403)", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-480e2b098881" } ], "research_scope": "Read original legal record and cited public implementation material; verify current case-specific approvals/funds separately." }, { "record_id": "INT-03", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Direct cooperative-contract rules and a separate NSPA vendor pathway are codified without treating NATO procurement as automatic U.S. authority use.", "routes": [ { "program": "AECA 27 cooperative-project contracting", "administering_office": "Responsible contracting agency; Deputy Secretary for specified waivers and acquisition-policy office for notifications", "audience": "Participants in an approved government cooperative project and suppliers competed/designated under its lawful terms", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "DFARS expressly implements 22 U.S.C.2767 and 10 U.S.C.2350b; ordinary procurement law remains except for a valid specific waiver.", "source": { "title": "DFARS 225.871 cooperative projects", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/part-225-foreign-acquisition", "locator": "225.871-1 through 225.871-7", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-05-07", "source_id": "src-127f973f2a6a" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Government establishes cooperative agreement, selects contracting arrangements and obtains any required contractor-designation/waiver notices before award.", "source": { "title": "DFARS 225.871 cooperative projects", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/part-225-foreign-acquisition", "locator": "225.871-1 through 225.871-7", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-05-07", "source_id": "src-127f973f2a6a" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Contributions and U.S. funds must follow the agreement’s funded cost shares; no general appropriation or award amount established.", "source": { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2767", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2767&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-54f60732b8d5" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Waiver authority does not cover AECA, statutory competition requirements, cargo preference or Treasury financial responsibilities; Deputy Secretary approval precedes a waiver commitment.", "source": { "title": "DFARS 225.871-4 Statutory waivers", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/225.871-4-statutory-waivers.", "locator": "Paragraphs(a)–(d)", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-05-07", "source_id": "src-0540cdbda32f" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current implementing regulation", "text": "An agreement is not itself a supplier award or broad waiver.", "source": { "title": "DFARS 225.871 cooperative projects", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/part-225-foreign-acquisition", "locator": "225.871-1 through 225.871-7", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-05-07", "source_id": "src-127f973f2a6a" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "Cooperative-project contracting rules", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/part-225-foreign-acquisition", "type": "government contracting implementation", "scope": "Companies need the resulting solicitation/award terms, not merely the cooperation agreement." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "DFARS 225.871-1 explicitly cites both underlying statutes.", "source": { "title": "DFARS 225.871 cooperative projects", "url": "https://www.acquisition.gov/dfars/part-225-foreign-acquisition", "locator": "225.871-1 through 225.871-7", "evidence_type": "official acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-05-07", "source_id": "src-127f973f2a6a" } } }, { "program": "NATO Support and Procurement Agency vendor route", "administering_office": "NSPA Source Identification and procurement offices", "audience": "Companies meeting NSPA and particular procurement eligibility", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [], "steps": [ { "text": "Register in the NSPA Source File to participate; NCAGE, NMCRL or another NATO-agency registration is not NSPA registration.", "source": { "title": "NSPA supplier registration FAQ", "url": "https://www.nspa.nato.int/business/frequently-asked-questions?cat=43", "locator": "Registration questions", "evidence_type": "official NATO-agency vendor guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0e062032720c" } } ], "funding": [], "limits": [ { "text": "Section 2350d agreement and actual procurement legal basis must be identified; not every NSPA purchase is U.S. use of that authority.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350d", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350d&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-22b3fb0265e2" } } ], "status": { "label": "Actual supplier process published", "text": "Registration provides procurement access, not a contract or proof of U.S. section 2350d funding.", "source": { "title": "NSPA supplier registration FAQ", "url": "https://www.nspa.nato.int/business/frequently-asked-questions?cat=43", "locator": "Registration questions", "evidence_type": "official NATO-agency vendor guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0e062032720c" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "NSPA supplier registration guidance", "url": "https://www.nspa.nato.int/business/frequently-asked-questions?cat=43", "type": "supplier registration", "scope": "Separate NATO-agency procurement process; 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Registered accounts demonstrate accounting machinery, not balances available for award.", "source": { "title": "Treasury FAST Book Part I", "url": "https://tfx.treasury.gov/system/files/2025-03/Part%20I%20FAST%20Book.pdf", "locator": "April 2026 edition; account families 5441 and 8337", "evidence_type": "official Treasury account register", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-04", "source_id": "src-9d5ac693f109" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Do not copy the 2014 manual’s geography or 21-day construction notice as current law; subsequent statute controls and specific authorizations must be checked.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350j", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350j&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-da4e2f065f63" } } ], "status": { "label": "Fiscal process and historical project use documented", "text": "USACE’s 2024 industry briefing labels Saudi Arabia Western Access Network funding 2350j; it does not establish a currently open solicitation.", "source": { "title": "USACE Transatlantic Middle East District Industry Day 2024 briefing", "url": "https://www.swm.usace.army.mil/Portals/77/ID2024%2020241010%20Presentation%20FINAL%20for%20TAM%20Public%20Site%20%28002%29.pdf", "locator": "Program overview, slide 7: Western Access Network KSA funding 2350j", "evidence_type": "official project briefing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-10-10", "source_id": "src-af949f48754a" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "Burdensharing account and approval procedure", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/current/12/12_24.pdf", "type": "government contribution process", "scope": "Contractors need the resulting acquisition, not the contribution itself." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Manual explicitly implements 2350j; USACE briefing separately identifies an actual project funding line.", "source": { "title": "USACE Transatlantic Middle East District Industry Day 2024 briefing", "url": "https://www.swm.usace.army.mil/Portals/77/ID2024%2020241010%20Presentation%20FINAL%20for%20TAM%20Public%20Site%20%28002%29.pdf", "locator": "Program overview, slide 7: Western Access Network KSA funding 2350j", "evidence_type": "official project briefing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-10-10", "source_id": "src-af949f48754a" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current designation, agreement, account balance and FY 2026 implementation updates not established; 2014 manual must be read against amendedlaw." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350j", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350j&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-da4e2f065f63" }, { "title": "FMR Volume 12 chapter 24 Burdensharing and overseas relocation", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/current/12/12_24.pdf", "locator": "Sections 2–6; accounts and notices", "evidence_type": "official financial implementation regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2014-10", "source_id": "src-78a119396972" }, { "title": "Treasury FAST Book Part I", "url": "https://tfx.treasury.gov/system/files/2025-03/Part%20I%20FAST%20Book.pdf", "locator": "April 2026 edition; account families 5441 and 8337", "evidence_type": "official Treasury account register", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-04", "source_id": "src-9d5ac693f109" }, { "title": "USACE Transatlantic Middle East District Industry Day 2024 briefing", "url": "https://www.swm.usace.army.mil/Portals/77/ID2024%2020241010%20Presentation%20FINAL%20for%20TAM%20Public%20Site%20%28002%29.pdf", "locator": "Program overview, slide 7: Western Access Network KSA funding 2350j", "evidence_type": "official project briefing", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-10-10", "source_id": "src-af949f48754a" } ], "research_scope": "Read original legal record and cited public implementation material; verify current case-specific approvals/funds separately." }, { "record_id": "INT-08", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Purpose-limited host-nation relocation funding has identifiable trust accounts and approval controls. It is distinct from general burdensharing.", "routes": [ { "program": "Host-nation relocation contribution trust funds", "administering_office": "USD(Comptroller), DFAS, service financial office and authorized host-nation counterpart", "audience": "Host governments funding relocation of U.S. forces within their country", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Contribution must support relocation within the contributing host nation; allowable instruments and obligation controls follow 2350k.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350k", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350k&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f973f9e84699" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Identify 2350k before receipt, credit host-specific 8337 trust accounts and track country contributions/investment earnings separately; 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account families 5441 and 8337", "evidence_type": "official Treasury account register", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-04", "source_id": "src-9d5ac693f109" } } ], "status": { "label": "Standing accounting implementation documented", "text": "Treasury’s April 2026 register identifies host-nation relocation accounts for South Korea and Qatar, among others.", "source": { "title": "Treasury FAST Book Part I", "url": "https://tfx.treasury.gov/system/files/2025-03/Part%20I%20FAST%20Book.pdf", "locator": "April 2026 edition; account families 5441 and 8337", "evidence_type": "official Treasury account register", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-04", "source_id": "src-9d5ac693f109" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "Relocation contribution fiscal controls", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/current/12/12_24.pdf", "type": "government trust-fund process", "scope": "No private grant/loan intake." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "FMR expressly implements 2350k and Treasury associates 8337 country receipts with it.", "source": { "title": "FMR Volume 12 chapter 24 Burdensharing and overseas relocation", "url": "https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/current/12/12_24.pdf", "locator": "Sections 2–6; 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designated U.S. executors use approved project authority and direct-funding forecasts when U.S. is implementing host.", "source": { "title": "DoDD 2010.05 NATO Security Investment Program", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/201005p.pdf", "locator": "Section 2 responsibilities and glossary direct funding", "evidence_type": "official directive (indexed; direct fetch 403)", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2022-11-09", "source_id": "src-5f6cea18f65a" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Direct funding is provided quarterly against expected invoices; 2350q permits specified obligations before receipt based on NATO project authorization, not unlimited unfunded commitments.", "source": { "title": "DoDD 2010.05 NATO Security Investment Program", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/201005p.pdf", "locator": "Section 2 responsibilities and glossary direct funding", "evidence_type": "official directive (indexed; direct fetch 403)", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2022-11-09", "source_id": "src-5f6cea18f65a" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Host nation means the implementing entity, not necessarily geographic host; 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BIS application independently documents the U.S. certification process." } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Specific NATO project authorization, tender eligibility and U.S.host designation/current appropriation must be verified.", "NCIA and DoDD references were reviewed through official indexed content, not successful direct fetches; the BIS application is the practical U.S. supplier reference." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DoDD 2010.05 NATO Security Investment Program", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/201005p.pdf", "locator": "Section 2 responsibilities and glossary direct funding", "evidence_type": "official directive (indexed; direct fetch 403)", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2022-11-09", "source_id": "src-5f6cea18f65a" }, { "title": "BIS 4023 P NATO International Competitive Bidding application", "url": "https://media.bis.gov/media/documents/nato-icb-application", "locator": "Application instructions 1–8 and attachments", "evidence_type": "official application form", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2fe871eff866" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350q", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350q&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-1b7643d79df8" }, { "title": "NCIA step 3 Declaration of Eligibility", "url": "https://www.ncia.nato.int/business/do-business-with-us/5-steps/step-3-get-a-declaration-of-eligibility", "locator": "National declaration requirement", "evidence_type": "official NATO-agency procurement instructions", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-02df9795a9c5", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text reviewed on 2026-10-04; direct page access returned 403. BIS application independently documents the U.S. certification process. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 403 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "Read original legal record and cited public implementation material; verify current case-specific approvals/funds separately." }, { "record_id": "INT-10", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "An actual venture fund exists, but current fund disclosures do not establish a U.S. contribution or eligibility for U.S.-headquartered startups.", "routes": [ { "program": "NATO Innovation Fund company and fund investments", "administering_office": "Independent NATO Innovation Fund manager and its sovereign limited partners", "audience": "Deep-tech startups headquartered in a participating LP country and aligned venture funds", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Typical initial stages are Seed–Series B; startup headquarters must be in an LP nation. 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Airlift, patient-movement and communications exchanges are not governed by one interchangeable agreement.", "routes": [ { "program": "MCCE, ATARES and SEOS military transport coordination", "administering_office": "USTRANSCOM/USEUCOM and designated national movement-coordination offices; MCCE secretariats", "audience": "Participating government movement authorities under their applicable technical arrangements", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "ATARES/SEOS access depends on participating nations’ signed technical arrangements; providing-nation capacity still controls availability.", "source": { "title": "Movement Coordination Centre Europe at a glance", "url": "https://www.mcce-mil.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/MCCE-At-A-Glance.pdf", "locator": "How to cooperate, printed p. 8:LOA, ATARES, SEOS", "evidence_type": "official multinational transport guidance; undated PDF", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-158846db39c3" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "National authorities request capacity. ATARES uses Form 1 and equivalent flying hours; SEOS uses Simplified Form 1 and surface-equivalent units. 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Its date and Five Eyes membership are insufficient to establish use of that new authority.", "source": { "title": "UKand US strengthen military medical partnership", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-us-strengthen-military-medical-partnership-through-new-agreement", "locator": "New Defence Medical Command–USU MOU announcement", "evidence_type": "official partner-government news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-03", "source_id": "src-f844f4c02ca5" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "Military medical MOU announcement", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-us-strengthen-military-medical-partnership-through-new-agreement", "type": "institutional cooperation reference", "scope": "Not an application portal or proof of automatic clinical-practice access." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Related medical-cooperation case only; the public source omits its U.S. statutory basis.", "source": { "title": "UKand US strengthen military medical partnership", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-us-strengthen-military-medical-partnership-through-new-agreement", "locator": "New Defence Medical Command–USU MOU announcement", "evidence_type": "official partner-government news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-03", "source_id": "src-f844f4c02ca5" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Full agreement, delegation, U.S. statutory basis, financial terms and FY 2026 required implementation report not verified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "UKand US strengthen military medical partnership", "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-us-strengthen-military-medical-partnership-through-new-agreement", "locator": "New Defence Medical Command–USU MOU announcement", "evidence_type": "official partner-government news", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-03", "source_id": "src-f844f4c02ca5" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350t", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350t&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-7b5831cc268a" } ], "research_scope": "Read original legal record and cited public implementation material; verify current case-specific approvals/funds separately." }, { "record_id": "INT-13", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Regional co-sustainment has an implementing structure and overseas repair has a service planning process; each project still requires its own contract and authority.", "routes": [ { "program": "Regional Sustainment Framework and regional MRO planning", "administering_office": "ASD(Sustainment)/product-support staff, RSF implementation team, services and combatant commands", "audience": "Government platform and product-support sponsors; allied MRO industry through actual contracts and partnerships", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [], "steps": [ { "text": "RSF aligns regional capability needs, critical platforms and industrial partners. 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FY 2025-and-later cross-fiscal-year performance can run through the third following FY; obligations still require timely available funds.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 333", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S333", "locator": "S 333.1–2, S 333.3–6; especially .2.4, .2.5.2, .2.8, .2.9 and .2.11", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-da55343f60a2" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "A BPC case is funded by U.S. appropriations and is not signed by the benefiting partner; it is not a partner-funded FMS LOA or binding substitute for international assurances.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM chapter 15 — BPC cases and training grants", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-15", "locator": "C 15.1.1–1.6; C 15.2; C 15.3; C 15.7", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a9e7c89328f4" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current implementation manual", "text": "SAMM identifies an active permanent program; 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especially .2.4, .2.5.2, .2.8, .2.9 and .2.11", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-da55343f60a2" }, { "title": "DSCA SAMM chapter 15 — BPC cases and training grants", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-15", "locator": "C 15.1.1–1.6; C 15.2; C 15.3; C 15.7", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a9e7c89328f4" } ], "research_scope": "Read original legal record and cited public implementation material; verify current case-specific approvals/funds separately." }, { "record_id": "INT-15", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Historical direct section 331 execution is documented; current CRSP is carefully separated because its present manual cites a different authority.", "routes": [ { "program": "Historical Section 331-funded CRSP case process", "administering_office": "DSCA and supported/supporting combatant commands", "audience": "Coalition forces supporting designated operations; government planners", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The 2018 memo explicitly mapped section 331 to support for friendly countries conducting designated operations.", "source": { "title": "DSCA policy 18-11 — CRSP FY 2018/19 program code", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/policy-memoranda/dsca-18-11", "locator": "Program code 7 U table and LOA closure instructions", "evidence_type": "official historical implementation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018", "source_id": "src-40db33db0df0" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Memo assigned program code 7 U to BPC LOAs and required execution, reconciliation and closure under SAMM controls.", "source": { "title": "DSCA policy 18-11 — CRSP FY 2018/19 program code", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/policy-memoranda/dsca-18-11", "locator": "Program code 7 U table and LOA closure instructions", "evidence_type": "official historical implementation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018", "source_id": "src-40db33db0df0" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Account 97 18/19 0100 under PL 115-123 supported these cases; no unspent/current allocation inferred.", "source": { "title": "DSCA policy 18-11 — CRSP FY 2018/19 program code", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/policy-memoranda/dsca-18-11", "locator": "Program code 7 U table and LOA closure instructions", "evidence_type": "official historical implementation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018", "source_id": "src-40db33db0df0" }, "kind": "Historical O&M account", "period": "FY 2018/19" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Section 331 requires the correct designated-operation category and statutory approvals; it cannot supply otherwise prohibited assistance.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 331", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section331&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-eb974137bce7" } } ], "status": { "label": "Historical execution evidence", "text": "This is FY 2018/19 implementation, not proof of current funding: those funds expired in 2019 and canceled in 2024.", "source": { "title": "DSCA policy 18-11 — CRSP FY 2018/19 program code", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/policy-memoranda/dsca-18-11", "locator": "Program code 7 U table and LOA closure instructions", "evidence_type": "official historical implementation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018", "source_id": "src-40db33db0df0" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "Historical Section 331 case instructions", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/policy-memoranda/dsca-18-11", "type": "historical reference", "scope": "Government case-design evidence, not a current solicitation." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The memorandum explicitly cites 10 U.S.C. 331. Current CRSP guidance instead cites FY 2008 NDAA section 1233; do not silently equate the two.", "source": { "title": "DSCA policy 18-11 — CRSP FY 2018/19 program code", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/policy-memoranda/dsca-18-11", "locator": "Program code 7 U table and LOA closure instructions", "evidence_type": "official historical implementation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018", "source_id": "src-40db33db0df0" } } }, { "program": "Current CRSP planning/execution — adjacent authority", "administering_office": "USD(P), Comptroller, CENTCOM and DSCA", "audience": "Eligible coalition forces supporting U.S. named operations", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "CENTCOM validates connection to U.S. operations; specialized training excludes basic training/new occupational-specialty qualification.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Coalition Readiness Support Program", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/CRSP", "locator": "Authority heading; CRSP.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9fa389ca2d6e" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "SCO/CCMD develops requirements, CENTCOM validates, policy/comptroller approve and notify, and DSCA/implementing agencies execute BPC cases.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Coalition Readiness Support Program", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/CRSP", "locator": "Authority heading; CRSP.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9fa389ca2d6e" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Coalition Support Funds finance CRSP specialized training, supplies and equipment loans; current allocated balance not established.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Coalition Readiness Support Program", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/CRSP", "locator": "Authority heading; CRSP.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9fa389ca2d6e" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "A current CRSP case must cite its actual authority and funding; this process alone does not establish a current section 331 operation designation.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Coalition Readiness Support Program", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/CRSP", "locator": "Authority heading; CRSP.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9fa389ca2d6e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Current guidance, separate legal basis", "text": "SAMM labels CRSP active under section 1233 of the FY 2008 NDAA as amended, not section 331.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Coalition Readiness Support Program", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/CRSP", "locator": "Authority heading; CRSP.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9fa389ca2d6e" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "CRSP government planning requirements", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/CRSP", "type": "related government process", "scope": "Use only when the separate CRSP authority/category applies." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Related coalition-support execution process, but the current source names a different statutory authority.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Coalition Readiness Support Program", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/CRSP", "locator": "Authority heading; CRSP.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9fa389ca2d6e" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Find the current designation/approval and fiscal authority for the particular section 331 operation; no comprehensive public designation register verified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DSCA policy 18-11 — CRSP FY 2018/19 program code", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/policy-memoranda/dsca-18-11", "locator": "Program code 7 U table and LOA closure instructions", "evidence_type": "official historical implementation memorandum", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018", "source_id": "src-40db33db0df0" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 331", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section331&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-eb974137bce7" }, { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Coalition Readiness Support Program", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/CRSP", "locator": "Authority heading; CRSP.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9fa389ca2d6e" } ], "research_scope": "Exact section 331 implementation/DoDI searches, DSCA current CRSP and historical policy 18-11, original legal record." }, { "record_id": "INT-16", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Concrete MoDA, ISG and DIILS advising processes support defense institutional management, with separate resident and nonresident delivery.", "routes": [ { "program": "Resident MoDA and recurring nonresident institutional advising", "administering_office": "DSCA/DSCU Institutional Capacity Building; Institute for Security Governance and DIILS", "audience": "Foreign defense/security oversight ministries and eligible regional organizations; trained U.S. government advisors.", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Assistance must improve defense governance, civilian oversight, internal controls or core management competencies; State concurrence and DSCA approval are required.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 332 institutional capacity building", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332", "locator": "S 332.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b0c7081574f1" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "CCMDs identify and prioritize requirements through the security-cooperation planning process; DSCU integrates resources and implementers design the advising effort.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 332 institutional capacity building", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332", "locator": "S 332.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b0c7081574f1" } }, { "text": "Resident MoDA advisors receive a seven-week preparation course; nonresident teams deliver sustained advisory visits and integral training rather than unrelated courses.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Ministry of Defense Advising", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332a", "locator": "S 332 a.1.1–1.2, .7.1", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-12c1e2561c88" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "MoDA reimburses advisor parent organizations for specified deployment/personnel costs and program support; no current country allocation established.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Ministry of Defense Advising", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332a", "locator": "S 332 a.1.1–1.2, .7.1", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-12c1e2561c88" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" }, { "text": "Nonresident programs may cover necessary participant travel, venues and translation within the approved advising effort.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Non-resident advisory programs", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332b-NonRA", "locator": "S 332 b-Non RA.1–2, .7", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a3ba2bb0bf06" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Vetting depends on activity: assisted unit/principal for advising and individuals for formal training. Administrative feasibility contacts before vetting cannot themselves provide assistance.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Non-resident advisory programs", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332b-NonRA", "locator": "S 332 b-Non RA.1–2, .7", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a3ba2bb0bf06" } } ], "status": { "label": "Resident and nonresident programs documented", "text": "SAMM identifies both as active; these are government-sponsored engagements, not public business grant competitions.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 332 institutional capacity building", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332", "locator": "S 332.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b0c7081574f1" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "Institutional advising planning and implementers", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332", "type": "government program request/coordination", "scope": "Use CCMD requirement development and DSCU/ISG or DIILS implementation, not a cash-assistance application." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The manual expressly implements section 332(a) resident advising and section 332(b) nonresident advisory/training authorities.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 332 institutional capacity building", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332", "locator": "S 332.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b0c7081574f1" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Specific advisor assignments, host agreements and country funding remain case-specific." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 332 institutional capacity building", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332", "locator": "S 332.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-b0c7081574f1" }, { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Ministry of Defense Advising", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332a", "locator": "S 332 a.1.1–1.2, .7.1", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-12c1e2561c88" }, { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Non-resident advisory programs", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S332b-NonRA", "locator": "S 332 b-Non RA.1–2, .7", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a3ba2bb0bf06" } ], "research_scope": "Read original legal record and cited public implementation material; verify current case-specific approvals/funds separately." }, { "record_id": "INT-17", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "General-force exchanges and SOF JCET have distinct purposes for training U.S. forces, approval requirements and funding channels.", "routes": [ { "program": "Section 321 training with friendly foreign forces", "administering_office": "Combatant command and participating military department, under published approval/funding controls", "audience": "U.S. forces training with eligible foreign counterparts; not partner-led capacity grants.", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Primary purpose is U.S.-force training tied to mission-essential tasks; eligible partner incremental costs require the program’s country and expense conditions.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 321 exchanges", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S321", "locator": "S 321.2–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80aa8ab3df83" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Commands develop and authorize training/exercise plans, apply required notifications and financial controls, and report activities under the SAMM process.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 321 exchanges", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S321", "locator": "S 321.2–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80aa8ab3df83" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Permitted training and incremental expenses use applicable DoD funds; no program appropriation total or country allotment established.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 321 exchanges", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S321", "locator": "S 321.2–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80aa8ab3df83" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Do not substitute this U.S.-readiness purpose for section 333 partner-capacity assistance.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 321 exchanges", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S321", "locator": "S 321.2–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80aa8ab3df83" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published training process", "text": "Current SAMM describes section 321 exchanges. Check the FY 2026 statutory amendment when reading older service guidance.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 321 exchanges", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S321", "locator": "S 321.2–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80aa8ab3df83" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "Section 321 planning and expense controls", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S321", "type": "government training planning", "scope": "No individual or vendor application; participants are selected through approved activities." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "SAMM expressly links the exchange program to section 321; FY 2026 changes must be read with existing procedural guidance.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 321 exchanges", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S321", "locator": "S 321.2–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80aa8ab3df83" } } }, { "program": "Joint Combined Exchange Training", "administering_office": "USSOCOM, theater special operations commands, geographic combatant commands and force-provider components", "audience": "U.S. SOF and approved foreign training counterparts", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "JCET’s primary purpose is training U.S. SOF; partner benefits are incidental and foreign participants require human-rights vetting.", "source": { "title": "AFSOCI 10-204", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/afsoc/publication/afsoci10-204/afsoci10-204.pdf", "locator": "Paragraph 5.3.2, printed p.24", "evidence_type": "official service instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-08-20", "source_id": "src-afeaa8c9b737" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "TSOC proposes with country-team input, geographic command validates, USSOCOM sources and Sec Def approves execution under the cited instruction.", "source": { "title": "AFSOCI 10-204", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/afsoc/publication/afsoci10-204/afsoci10-204.pdf", "locator": "Paragraph 5.3.2, printed p.24", "evidence_type": "official service instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-08-20", "source_id": "src-afeaa8c9b737" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "USSOCOM provides MFP-11 funding to components for JCET execution; no event funding guaranteed.", "source": { "title": "AFSOCI 10-204", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/afsoc/publication/afsoci10-204/afsoci10-204.pdf", "locator": "Paragraph 5.3.2, printed p.24", "evidence_type": "official service instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-08-20", "source_id": "src-afeaa8c9b737" }, "kind": "Program funding channel", "period": "2024 instruction" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "JCET does not independently authorize combat or a partner-led equip-and-train program.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 322", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section322&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-010cdf25af5d" } } ], "status": { "label": "JCET process documented", "text": "Instruction describes a command-managed training program; not an open foreign-force assistance application.", "source": { "title": "AFSOCI 10-204", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/afsoc/publication/afsoci10-204/afsoci10-204.pdf", "locator": "Paragraph 5.3.2, printed p.24", "evidence_type": "official service instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-08-20", "source_id": "src-afeaa8c9b737" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "JCET execution framework", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/afsoc/publication/afsoci10-204/afsoci10-204.pdf", "type": "command-managed training process", "scope": "Event-specific command approval and participant screening required." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Paragraph 5.3.2 expressly identifies section 322 as JCET authority.", "source": { "title": "AFSOCI 10-204", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/afsoc/publication/afsoci10-204/afsoci10-204.pdf", "locator": "Paragraph 5.3.2, printed p.24", "evidence_type": "official service instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-08-20", "source_id": "src-afeaa8c9b737" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Do not use pre-FY 2026 “military-only” language as current section 321 eligibility; verify event-specific approval and expense rules." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 321 exchanges", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S321", "locator": "S 321.2–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-80aa8ab3df83" }, { "title": "AFSOCI 10-204", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/afsoc/publication/afsoci10-204/afsoci10-204.pdf", "locator": "Paragraph 5.3.2, printed p.24", "evidence_type": "official service instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-08-20", "source_id": "src-afeaa8c9b737" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 322", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section322&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-010cdf25af5d" } ], "research_scope": "Read original legal record and cited public implementation material; 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consult their actual orders/agreements." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "USAF Engineer and Scientist Exchange Program", "url": "https://www.safia.hq.af.mil/Force-Development/Engineer-and-Scientist-Exchange-Program/", "locator": "Overview, program details and application-template resources", "evidence_type": "official program page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4f7afc8b5a1e", "retrieval_note": "Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 311", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section311&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-8cad51d3736c" }, { "title": "AFI 16-107 Military Personnel Exchange Program", "url": "https://static.e-publishing.af.mil/production/1/saf_ia/publication/afi16-107/afi16-107.pdf", "locator": "Cover purpose and program procedures", "evidence_type": "official service instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2018-08-29", "source_id": "src-649a2805bfe2", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed PDF text retrieved; direct browser PDF fetch intermittently failed." }, { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Section 335 US–Colombia Action Plan", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S335", "locator": "S 335.1–6", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-336061e9db9f" } ], "research_scope": "Read original legal record and cited public implementation material; verify current case-specific approvals/funds separately." }, { "record_id": "INT-19", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "A functioning state/foreign-government partnership network has a specific nomination and oversight process, with actual documented use.", "routes": [ { "program": "National Guard State Partnership Program", "administering_office": "National Guard Bureau with state adjutants general, combatant commands and Chief of Mission objectives", "audience": "Foreign governmental military/security/disaster counterparts; U.S. state/territorial National Guards.", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Government-to-government partnerships operate under U.S. foreign-policy and security-cooperation objectives; they are not independent state foreign policy.", "source": { "title": "National Guard State Partnership Program", "url": "https://www.nationalguard.mil/leadership/joint-staff/j-5/international-affairs-division/state-partnership-program/", "locator": "Program governance and country/state map", "evidence_type": "official program page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-849ae6b170aa" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Published nomination process: partner governmental request and Chief-of-Mission endorsement; CCMD prioritization; Joint Staff consolidation; policy approval; NGB state nomination.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 5111.20 State Partnership Program", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/511120p.pdf", "locator": "Sections 2–3; especially 3.5–3.6", "evidence_type": "official department instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2016-10-12", "source_id": "src-86a3227d12d6" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "DoDI requires activities to identify their legal authority and funding source; partnership status itself does not fund every proposed event.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 5111.20 State Partnership Program", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/511120p.pdf", "locator": "Sections 2–3; especially 3.5–3.6", "evidence_type": "official department instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2016-10-12", "source_id": "src-86a3227d12d6" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "FY 2026 law requires consideration of existing state partnerships and Guard capacity. Revision of the 2016 instruction implementing that requirement was not verified.", "source": { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1206", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Active partnership network", "text": "Official program page supplies current pairings. Vermont’s Austria case explicitly links the program to section 341 and documents a nomination process.", "source": { "title": "Vermont–Austria partnership explained", "url": "https://vt.public.ng.mil/News/Article/2818724/vtng-austria-state-partnership-explained/", "locator": "Statutory authority and nomination history", "evidence_type": "official service case report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2021", "source_id": "src-bb45ec520346" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "Official partnership map and governance", "url": "https://www.nationalguard.mil/leadership/joint-staff/j-5/international-affairs-division/state-partnership-program/", "type": "government partnership nomination", "scope": "Use existing pairing/program governance; no company grant application or independent state award power." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Official Vermont case expressly cites section 341 and DoDI 5111.20; current program page corroborates governance and network.", "source": { "title": "Vermont–Austria partnership explained", "url": "https://vt.public.ng.mil/News/Article/2818724/vtng-austria-state-partnership-explained/", "locator": "Statutory authority and nomination history", "evidence_type": "official service case report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2021", "source_id": "src-bb45ec520346" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current event orders, active-duty status, vetting and funding must be verified; post-FY 2026 instruction update not located." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "National Guard State Partnership Program", "url": "https://www.nationalguard.mil/leadership/joint-staff/j-5/international-affairs-division/state-partnership-program/", "locator": "Program governance and country/state map", "evidence_type": "official program page", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-849ae6b170aa" }, { "title": "DoDI 5111.20 State Partnership Program", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/511120p.pdf", "locator": "Sections 2–3; especially 3.5–3.6", "evidence_type": "official department instruction", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2016-10-12", "source_id": "src-86a3227d12d6" }, { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1206", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "Vermont–Austria partnership explained", "url": "https://vt.public.ng.mil/News/Article/2818724/vtng-austria-state-partnership-explained/", "locator": "Statutory authority and nomination history", "evidence_type": "official service case report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2021", "source_id": "src-bb45ec520346" } ], "research_scope": "Read original legal record and cited public implementation material; verify current case-specific approvals/funds separately." }, { "record_id": "INT-20", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "The FMS route has documented LOR, LOA, payment and implementation stages. Sales, financing and private export licensing stay distinct.", "routes": [ { "program": "Foreign Military Sales — government-to-government cases", "administering_office": "DSCA and implementing military department/agency, with State release/foreign-policy oversight", "audience": "Eligible foreign governments/international organizations; suppliers contract with the U.S. implementing agency.", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Purchaser submits an actionable Letter of Request identifying desired articles/services and relevant requirements; eligibility and release/security review remain necessary.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM chapter 5 — FMS case development", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-5", "locator": "C 5.1 Letter of Request; C 5.4 LOA; C 5.5 congressional notification", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-56655cd6316f" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "LOR leads to case development, required congressional notification, an offered LOA, purchaser acceptance/initial payment, and implementation by the responsible agency.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM chapter 5 — FMS case development", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-5", "locator": "C 5.1 Letter of Request; 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C 9.7.3 direct commercial contracts; C 9.10 billing", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-34b86c7d5e01" } } ], "status": { "label": "Established FMS process", "text": "SAMM publishes current LOR/LOA procedures; a notification of a possible sale is not a signed contract or delivery.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM chapter 5 — FMS case development", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-5", "locator": "C 5.1 Letter of Request; C 5.4 LOA; C 5.5 congressional notification", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-56655cd6316f" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "LOR content and LOA development", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-5", "type": "government purchasing request", "scope": "Eligible purchaser request, not a vendor grant application; suppliers use resulting procurement channels." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "FMS implements AECA government stock/procurement sales; 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Current State.gov original was not recovered. Independent Polish government announcements substantiate transaction; distributor is not policy authority. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 403 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "Polish Ministry of Development and Technology — September 2026 FMF financing agreement", "url": "https://www.gov.pl/web/rozwoj-technologia/inwestycje-w-bezpieczenstwo-wzmacniaja-polska-gospodarke-4-mld-dolarow-w-ramach-strategicznego-partnerstwa-z-usa2", "locator": "September 9 announcement; paragraphs on $4 billion BGK financing and sixth FMF agreement/third U.S.government credit guarantee", "evidence_type": "foreign-government transaction announcement", "published_on": "2026-09-09", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-8263f1fcf1b0", "retrieval_note": "Full official article read; confirms amount, date and guarantee form, but not complete loan agreement terms." } ], "research_scope": "Read original legal record and cited public implementation material; verify current case-specific approvals/funds separately." }, { "record_id": "INT-22", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "An established DSCA bilateral leasing workflow includes standard formats, an associated support case and cost/return controls.", "routes": [ { "program": "AECA defense-article leases", "administering_office": "DSCA Director and responsible military department/implementing agency", "audience": "Eligible foreign government/international organization needing temporary access to eligible DoD articles.", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Articles must be unneeded for public use and compelling policy/security reasons support leasing; purchaser bears specified shipping, travel and replacement costs.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Leases of Defense Articles", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/LoDA", "locator": "Lo DA.1; .2.1–2.3; .3–6 and format figures", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6627493f8f14" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Implementing agency prepares a DSAMS lease using published formats; military department signs/forwards to DSCA, notifications and approvals occur, and support costs use an FMS case.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Leases of Defense Articles", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/LoDA", "locator": "Lo DA.1; .2.1–2.3; .3–6 and format figures", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6627493f8f14" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Lease payment schedule/deposit and FMS support case cover applicable costs; neither a grant nor a general property lease.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM — Leases of Defense Articles", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/LoDA", "locator": "Lo DA.1; .2.1–2.3; .3–6 and format figures", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6627493f8f14" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Normally maximum 60 months plus specified pre-delivery major refurbishment. 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CCMD performs legal/policy review; Joint Staff coordinates approval and OHASIS records authorization and subsequent assessments.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 2205.02 Humanitarian and Civic Assistance", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/220502p.pdf", "locator": "Enclosure 3 paragraphs 5–6; change 1", "evidence_type": "official instruction (indexed text; direct PDF fetch 403)", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2017-05-22", "source_id": "src-ec89624902cd" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Section 401 direct expenses require funds specifically appropriated for HCA. Do not label all HCA projects OHDACA-funded.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 401", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section401&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-2635b4ea9cc3" }, "kind": "Program/account controls", "period": "Current guidance checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Host national/local approval and State approval are required; a training exercise does not by itself approve an HCA project.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 2205.02 Humanitarian and Civic Assistance", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/220502p.pdf", "locator": "Enclosure 3 paragraphs 5–6; change 1", "evidence_type": "official instruction (indexed text; direct PDF fetch 403)", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2017-05-22", "source_id": "src-ec89624902cd" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published project process", "text": "Instruction remains publicly indexed; its 2017 interagency titles should not substitute for current assignment verification.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 2205.02 Humanitarian and Civic Assistance", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/220502p.pdf", "locator": "Enclosure 3 paragraphs 5–6; change 1", "evidence_type": "official instruction (indexed text; direct PDF fetch 403)", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2017-05-22", "source_id": "src-ec89624902cd" }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "HCA nomination requirements", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/220502p.pdf", "type": "government project process", "scope": "CCMD/military-department nomination, not public project-grant intake." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Instruction expressly implements 10 U.S.C. 401.", "source": { "title": "DoDI 2205.02 Humanitarian and Civic Assistance", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/220502p.pdf", "locator": "Enclosure 3 paragraphs 5–6; 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No assertion that authority has never been used." }, { "record_id": "INT-29", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "Public evidence supports the distinct oversight and human-rights framework, not a business opportunity or generally available partner-assistance program.", "routes": [ { "program": "Section 127e support governance — public oversight only", "administering_office": "Secretary of Defense, USSOCOM and relevant Chief of Mission; statutory nondelegable approval", "audience": "Approved foreign forces/groups/individuals supporting authorized ongoing U.S. SOF counterterrorism operations", "relationship_type": "context only", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Must support an already-authorized ongoing U.S.SOF counterterrorism operation; Chief of Mission concurrence and statutory approval/review are required.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 127e", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section127e&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Cited statutory section; 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Public budget analysis explains the framework without disclosing a current § 429 ledger.", "routes": [ { "program": "Defense intelligence execution-account framework", "administering_office": "Secretary of Defense and authorized intelligence resource officials; DNI for lawful inter-element transfers", "audience": "Government budget and accounting officials", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Identify the lawful activity, originating appropriation and transfer basis before recording an expenditure transfer.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 429", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section429&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 429", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f2111f675b25" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The CRS discussion is explanatory budget context, not an executed transfer instruction.", "source": { "title": "CRS R43098 — Transfer and Reprogramming of Appropriations: An Overview of Authorities, Limitations, and Procedures", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R43098/R43098.4.pdf", "locator": "Discussion of intelligence transfer authorities and 10 U.S.C. § 429", "evidence_type": "congressional research analysis", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Relevant indexed discussion read; no current execution-account ledger was retrieved.", "source_id": "src-82b3f1d744f6" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Transferred appropriations retain their underlying availability; the account does not create fresh funds or unrestricted reprogramming authority.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 429", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section429&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 429", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f2111f675b25" }, "kind": "Account administration", "period": "Statutory conditions; no available balance established" } ], "limits": [], "status": { "label": "Specific accounts and balances unverified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "No current instrument-specific ledger, transfer agreement or public request process was verified.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 429", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section429&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 429", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f2111f675b25" } }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Section 429 authorizes account administration for funds already lawfully available.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 429", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section429&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 429", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f2111f675b25" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Read the governing source", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section429&num=0&edition=prelim", "type": "reference, not an application portal", "scope": "This source does not accept funding applications." } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Current execution accounts, transaction authority, balances and any required approvals remain unverified." ], "research_scope": "Reviewed § 429 and public congressional budget analysis; searches did not establish a current account-level execution record.", "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 429", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section429&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 429", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-f2111f675b25" }, { "title": "CRS R43098 — Transfer and Reprogramming of Appropriations: An Overview of Authorities, Limitations, and Procedures", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R43098/R43098.4.pdf", "locator": "Discussion of intelligence transfer authorities and 10 U.S.C. § 429", "evidence_type": "congressional research analysis", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Relevant indexed discussion read; no current execution-account ledger was retrieved.", "source_id": "src-82b3f1d744f6" } ] }, { "record_id": "INT-35", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "Congress authorized a bounded DIA foreign-contribution mechanism with a December 31, 2028 sunset. 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It is related industrial-security process evidence, not proof that the separate expanded unclassified-contract regime is operational.", "source": { "title": "DCSA Facility Clearances", "url": "https://www.dcsa.mil/FCL/", "locator": "Sponsorship; NISS; required supporting package", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-9154db23ec17" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Facility clearance sponsorship guidance", "url": "https://www.dcsa.mil/FCL/", "type": "sponsor-led clearance process", "scope": "Start with the government requirement and sponsor, not self-sponsorship." } }, { "program": "Expanded Section847 FOCI reviews — May 2026 proposed DFARS rule", "administering_office": "DCSA and contracting departments", "audience": "Contractors potentially covered by the expanded statutory regime", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Proposed coverage includes contracts and subcontracts above$5 million; commercial products/services are included only when the designated senior official makes the specified national-security risk determination.", "source": { "title": "Proposed DFARS FOCI rule2021-D011", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-07/html/2026-09067.htm", "locator": "91FR24783–24788; Background and Discussion; proposed240.27X and252.240-70XX/70YY", "evidence_type": "proposed acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-05-07", "source_id": "src-ddf2901a1cb4" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "If adopted as proposed, covered offerors would disclose beneficial ownership/FOCI through SF328 in NISS and have eligible status or satisfy an exception. 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Its publication is evidence of rulemaking, not proof that the proposed contract clauses are effective.", "source": { "title": "Proposed DFARS FOCI rule2021-D011", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-07/html/2026-09067.htm", "locator": "91FR24783–24788; Background and Discussion; proposed240.27X and252.240-70XX/70YY", "evidence_type": "proposed acquisition regulation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-05-07", "source_id": "src-ddf2901a1cb4" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Read the published proposed FOCI rule", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-07/html/2026-09067.htm", "type": "proposed regulation", "scope": "Rulemaking/reference information; comment window has closed. Not an application or assertion of current contractual applicability." } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No final DFARS rule or current effective date was verified; a final text and actual solicitation are needed before applying the proposed clause as a requirement.", "The existing FCL process is separately documented; the proposed expansion must not be converted into an all-contractors compliance badge." ], "research_scope": "Read DCSA’s live FCL and Section847 pages and the April 2026 GAO audit. Kept established classified access and pending expanded contractor vetting separate. Independent followup read the official May 7, 2026 proposed rule in full relevant coverage/disclosure sections and searched2021-D011 final-rule status. 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L. 116-92, § 847", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-116publ92/html/PLAW-116publ92.htm", "locator": "Pub. 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It is not a current template, and the FBI-specific compulsory power must not be attributed to DoD.", "routes": [ { "program": "NCIS 2002 financial-record request — historical example", "administering_office": "NCIS in the released historical record; current authorized requesting official must be verified", "audience": "Government legal/compliance officials and recipient financial institutions", "relationship_type": "documented use", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Use the statutory purpose, identifier and certification applicable to the precise branch.", "source": { "title": "12 U.S.C. § 3414", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section3414&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "12 U.S.C. § 3414", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a36516b3a21d" } } ], "steps": [], "funding": [], "limits": [ { "text": "Section3414(a)(5) specifically grants an FBI power; it cannot be inferred for DoD from (a)(1).", "source": { "title": "12 U.S.C. § 3414", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section3414&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "12 U.S.C. § 3414", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a36516b3a21d" } }, { "text": "The consumer-report branch concerns international terrorism; applicable judicial review and privacy protections remain separate.", "source": { "title": "15 U.S.C. § 1681v", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section1681v&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "15 U.S.C. § 1681v", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cfe9da98bbac" } }, { "text": "Do not reuse the 2002 nondisclosure wording as a current legal notice.", "source": { "title": "DoD FOIA release — NCIS financial-record request", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Homeland_Defense/07-F-0792_NCIS.pdf", "locator": "November 27, 2002 letter and statutory certification", "evidence_type": "historical official release", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2002-11-27", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed released-document text read; historical wording is not a current request template.", "source_id": "src-cdeef1b9d26e" } } ], "status": { "label": "Historical example only", "as_of": "2002-11-27", "text": "The released letter cites the Right to Financial Privacy Act and includes a certification; current delegations and modern safeguards were not established by this document.", "source": { "title": "DoD FOIA release — NCIS financial-record request", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Homeland_Defense/07-F-0792_NCIS.pdf", "locator": "November 27, 2002 letter and statutory certification", "evidence_type": "historical official release", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2002-11-27", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed released-document text read; historical wording is not a current request template.", "source_id": "src-cdeef1b9d26e" } }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The letter documents use of the financial-record framework, not every distinct consumer-report or compulsory authority in this record.", "source": { "title": "DoD FOIA release — NCIS financial-record request", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Homeland_Defense/07-F-0792_NCIS.pdf", "locator": "November 27, 2002 letter and statutory certification", "evidence_type": "historical official release", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2002-11-27", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed released-document text read; historical wording is not a current request template.", "source_id": "src-cdeef1b9d26e" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Read the governing source", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Homeland_Defense/07-F-0792_NCIS.pdf", "type": "reference, not an application portal", "scope": "This source does not accept funding applications." } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "A current agency delegation, legally reviewed request format and branch-specific review/notice safeguards were not publicly verified. No private intelligence-gathering route is offered." ], "research_scope": "Reviewed exact statutory distinctions and a released official NCIS example; searches of public intelligence guidance did not establish a current instrument-specific request template.", "sources_checked": [ { "title": "12 U.S.C. § 3414", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title12-section3414&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "12 U.S.C. § 3414", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-a36516b3a21d" }, { "title": "15 U.S.C. § 1681v", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section1681v&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "15 U.S.C. § 1681v", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-cfe9da98bbac" }, { "title": "DoD FOIA release — NCIS financial-record request", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/Homeland_Defense/07-F-0792_NCIS.pdf", "locator": "November 27, 2002 letter and statutory certification", "evidence_type": "historical official release", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2002-11-27", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed released-document text read; historical wording is not a current request template.", "source_id": "src-cdeef1b9d26e" } ] }, { "record_id": "INT-38", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "process documented", "summary": "Law-enforcement support uses a government request-and-approval process, not an unrestricted police or private procurement power.", "routes": [ { "program": "Defense support to civilian law enforcement", "administering_office": "Requesting civilian agency and designated DoD approving/supporting officials", "audience": "Civilian law-enforcement agencies with a lawful support requirement", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Fit the requested information, equipment, facilities or expertise to an authorized category and avoid adverse military-preparedness effects.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 276", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section276&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 276", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-00537513f465" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Document the request, legal support category, approving official and reimbursement treatment before execution.", "source": { "title": "DoDI3025.21 — Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/302521p.pdf", "locator": "February 27, 2013, change1 February 8, 2019; request, approval and support restrictions", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-02-08", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text and issuance register read; transaction-specific approval must be confirmed.", "source_id": "src-168c183128fc" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Apply § 277 reimbursement requirements and any actual statutory exception; assistance is not presumptively free.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 277", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section277&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 277", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ca6559349335" }, "kind": "Reimbursable government support", "period": "Statutory conditions; no available balance established" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Direct participation in search, seizure or arrest remains restricted absent separate lawful authorization.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 275", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section275&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 275", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-19f378683499" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published government request framework", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The issuance register lists DoDI 3025.21 with its February 2019 change. Specific support still requires legal, readiness and approval review.", "source": { "title": "DoDI3025.21 — Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/302521p.pdf", "locator": "February 27, 2013, change1 February 8, 2019; request, approval and support restrictions", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-02-08", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text and issuance register read; transaction-specific approval must be confirmed.", "source_id": "src-168c183128fc" } }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The instruction implements defense support to civilian law enforcement; the precise statutory support category still governs.", "source": { "title": "DoDI3025.21 — Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/302521p.pdf", "locator": "February 27, 2013, change1 February 8, 2019; request, approval and support restrictions", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-02-08", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text and issuance register read; transaction-specific approval must be confirmed.", "source_id": "src-168c183128fc" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Read the governing source", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/302521p.pdf", "type": "reference, not an application portal", "scope": "This source does not accept funding applications." } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No particular operation’s legality, approval or reimbursement waiver is established; emergency or other exceptional authorities must be analyzed separately." ], "research_scope": "Read the current issuance-register entry and public implementation passages against the record’s chapter15 provisions; did not equate all domestic military activity with this route.", "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 276", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section276&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 276", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-00537513f465" }, { "title": "DoDI3025.21 — Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement", "url": "https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodi/302521p.pdf", "locator": "February 27, 2013, change1 February 8, 2019; request, approval and support restrictions", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2019-02-08", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed text and issuance register read; transaction-specific approval must be confirmed.", "source_id": "src-168c183128fc" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 277", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section277&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 277", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ca6559349335" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 275", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section275&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 275", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-19f378683499" } ] }, { "record_id": "INT-39", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "Counterdrug/transnational-crime support has a defined legal menu, but current border operations involve multiple authorities. The 2026 task-force announcement does not establish § 284 for every activity.", "routes": [ { "program": "Section 284 request and category controls", "administering_office": "Secretary of Defense and designated support officials; requesting law-enforcement or other authorized agency", "audience": "Government requesters, not companies applying for a grant", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Specify the counterdrug or counter-transnational-crime purpose, requesting authority and eligible support category.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 284", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section284&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 284", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ae6867644d44" } } ], "steps": [], "funding": [ { "text": "Identify the actual appropriation and any transfer. 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The task-force announcement is not an application portal." ], "research_scope": "Checked § 284/current-record amendment, current NORTHCOM organization reporting and GAO fiscal evidence; separated organizational affiliation from authority attribution.", "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 284", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section284&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 284", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ae6867644d44" }, { "title": "GAO-26-108437 — Southern Border Security", "url": "https://files.gao.gov/reports/GAO-26-108437/index.html", "locator": "Funding strategies; transfers and fiscal-year distinctions", "evidence_type": "official oversight report", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-07-13", "source_id": "src-4e5bd9b339d9" }, { "title": "USNORTHCOM — JIATF Counter Cartel established", "url": "https://www.northcom.mil/Newsroom/News/Article/Article/4381245/joint-interagency-task-force-counter-cartel-jiatf-cc-established/", "locator": "January 15, 2026 establishment announcement", "evidence_type": "official news release", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2026-01-15", "source_id": "src-1d161a35ffbc" } ] }, { "record_id": "INT-40", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "The 1122 program is a purchase channel for eligible state/local governments. It is not a grant, and it is distinct from 1033 excess-property transfers.", "routes": [ { "program": "1122 State Point of Contact purchasing", "administering_office": "Department of Defense program; GSA/DLA supply channels; certified State Point of Contact (SPOC)", "audience": "Eligible state and local government agencies", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Equipment must serve eligible counterdrug, homeland-security or emergency-response activity; the SPOC validates use and funding.", "source": { "title": "GSA — 1122 purchasing program", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/buy-through-us/purchasing-programs/programs-for-state-and-local-governments/1122-program", "locator": "Eligibility; ordering procedures; State Points of Contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ccbefdd90eea" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Contact the state SPOC; MAS orders/payment go to the contractor, while vehicle orders use GSAFleet.gov.", "source": { "title": "GSA — 1122 purchasing program", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/buy-through-us/purchasing-programs/programs-for-state-and-local-governments/1122-program", "locator": "Eligibility; ordering procedures; State Points of Contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ccbefdd90eea" } }, { "text": "California’s implementation additionally requires agency certification and pre-authorization. Those state steps are not assumed identical nationwide.", "source": { "title": "California OES — 1122 Program", "url": "https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-director/operations/response-operations/law-enforcement/1122-program/", "locator": "Agency certification and pre-authorization ordering", "evidence_type": "official state implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-61d4d5cf3f11" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "The purchaser supplies payment; this federal purchasing channel is not a free-equipment entitlement.", "source": { "title": "GSA — 1122 purchasing program", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/buy-through-us/purchasing-programs/programs-for-state-and-local-governments/1122-program", "locator": "Eligibility; ordering procedures; State Points of Contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ccbefdd90eea" }, "kind": "State/local purchase funds", "period": "Statutory conditions; no available balance established" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Confirm the permitted equipment and current state instructions; do not substitute 1033 excess-property procedures.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 281", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section281&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 281", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-484ba491ead0" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published purchasing route", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "GSA publishes current SPOCs and instructions for equipment and vehicle orders. The state must have a certified SPOC.", "source": { "title": "GSA — 1122 purchasing program", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/buy-through-us/purchasing-programs/programs-for-state-and-local-governments/1122-program", "locator": "Eligibility; ordering procedures; State Points of Contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ccbefdd90eea" } }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "GSA expressly identifies § 281 and the 1122 program; its older § 381 reference reflects prior codification.", "source": { "title": "GSA — 1122 purchasing program", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/buy-through-us/purchasing-programs/programs-for-state-and-local-governments/1122-program", "locator": "Eligibility; ordering procedures; State Points of Contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ccbefdd90eea" } }, "engagement": { "label": "1122 ordering guidance and SPOCs", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/buy-through-us/purchasing-programs/programs-for-state-and-local-governments/1122-program", "type": "eligible government purchasing route", "scope": "State/local agencies start with their SPOC; businesses are suppliers, not program beneficiaries." } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Specific equipment eligibility, state participation, price, delivery and purchaser funds require confirmation before an order." ], "research_scope": "Read GSA’s live program and state-contact guidance plus California’s actual ordering workflow; preserved the difference between national eligibility and state administration.", "sources_checked": [ { "title": "GSA — 1122 purchasing program", "url": "https://www.gsa.gov/buy-through-us/purchasing-programs/programs-for-state-and-local-governments/1122-program", "locator": "Eligibility; ordering procedures; State Points of Contact", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-ccbefdd90eea" }, { "title": "California OES — 1122 Program", "url": "https://www.caloes.ca.gov/office-of-the-director/operations/response-operations/law-enforcement/1122-program/", "locator": "Agency certification and pre-authorization ordering", "evidence_type": "official state implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-61d4d5cf3f11" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 281", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section281&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 281", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-484ba491ead0" } ] }, { "record_id": "INT-41", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "NSA’s live page links a FY 2027 mathematics solicitation due October 15, 2026. The call is current. Funding is contingent, and the document contains conflicting duration statements.", "routes": [ { "program": "NSA Mathematical Sciences Program (MSP) — FY 2027", "administering_office": "NSA Mathematical Sciences Program and grant office; applicant institution sponsored-program office", "audience": "U.S. nonprofit institutions applying on behalf of eligible principal investigators", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "U.S. nonprofit applicants; supported participants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. The call covers specified mathematics areas and excludes cryptography projects.", "source": { "title": "NSA Mathematical Sciences Program — FY2027 solicitation", "url": "https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/75/MSP_FY2027_Solicitation.pdf?ver=gDBBJubJhqsZOySoTRqcAQ%3D%3D", "locator": "§§ 1.1–1.8,2.0–2.4 and AttachmentA", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4cd187df2849" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Secure institutional approval and follow AttachmentA; submit to the program address in the current call.", "source": { "title": "NSA Mathematical Sciences Program — FY2027 solicitation", "url": "https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/75/MSP_FY2027_Solicitation.pdf?ver=gDBBJubJhqsZOySoTRqcAQ%3D%3D", "locator": "§§ 1.1–1.8,2.0–2.4 and AttachmentA", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4cd187df2849" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "The call states funds are not yet available. 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Its stated weekday is inconsistent with the calendar; rely on the date and time, and confirm with the program.", "source": { "title": "NSA Mathematical Sciences Program — FY2027 solicitation", "url": "https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/75/MSP_FY2027_Solicitation.pdf?ver=gDBBJubJhqsZOySoTRqcAQ%3D%3D", "locator": "§§ 1.1–1.8,2.0–2.4 and AttachmentA", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4cd187df2849" } }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The solicitation identifies Assistance Listing 12.901; it does not expressly identify § 3611 in the reviewed text. MSP is a documented NSA grant program, not a proven subsection-specific use.", "source": { "title": "NSA Mathematical Sciences Program — FY2027 solicitation", "url": "https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/75/MSP_FY2027_Solicitation.pdf?ver=gDBBJubJhqsZOySoTRqcAQ%3D%3D", "locator": "§§ 1.1–1.8,2.0–2.4 and AttachmentA", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4cd187df2849" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Current NSA MSP page and guidelines", "url": "https://www.nsa.gov/Research/Math-Sciences-Program/", "type": "institutional grant-submission guidance", "scope": "Use the FY2027 document linked by NSA; confirm conflicting terms and funds availability." } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No award or available obligation balance is established. Resolve the internal duration conflict with the program. The exact § 3611 linkage is not verified by the solicitation." ], "research_scope": "Opened the live NSA page and followed its guidelines link to the FY2027 PDF; compared it with indexed FY2026 material. Searched the assistance-listing/statute linkage without finding an express primary-source bridge.", "sources_checked": [ { "title": "NSA Mathematical Sciences Program — FY2027 solicitation", "url": "https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/75/MSP_FY2027_Solicitation.pdf?ver=gDBBJubJhqsZOySoTRqcAQ%3D%3D", "locator": "§§ 1.1–1.8,2.0–2.4 and AttachmentA", "evidence_type": "official solicitation", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-4cd187df2849" } ] }, { "record_id": "INT-42", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "NGA publicly describes international co-production and data exchange. Those activities are documented, but the publication does not establish which agreement uses §§ 453–455 or disclose map-sale receipts.", "routes": [ { "program": "Foundation GEOINT international exchange and co-production", "administering_office": "NGA Foundation GEOINT Group; agreement-specific officials must be verified", "audience": "Eligible government and other authorized geospatial partners", "relationship_type": "related process", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Apply the qualifying agreement categories and security/release requirements; the NGO/academic branch concerns areas outside the United States.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 453", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section453&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 453", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-8f3c2fe3d847" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Identify the proposed exchange and applicable agreement authority with NGA’s authorized partnership staff; generic procurement engagement does not establish exchange eligibility.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 453", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section453&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 453", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-8f3c2fe3d847" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Map-sale receipts under § 455 are available for the specified foreign data-acquisition/license fees, not unrestricted reinvestment.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 455", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section455&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 455", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6a1498bdf61c" }, "kind": "Purpose-limited receipts", "period": "Statutory conditions; no available balance established" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The magazine’s partnership totals are organizational context, not a list of executed § 453 agreements or current spending authority.", "source": { "title": "NGA Foundation GEOINT Group — 2025 magazine", "url": "https://www.nga.mil/assets/files/2025_NGA_Foundation_Magazine_FINAL.pdf", "locator": "Group mission and international partnerships; co-production/data exchange", "evidence_type": "official program publication", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c460a2e0a968" } } ], "status": { "label": "Published partnership activity", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The 2025 publication describes international sharing, co-production and data-exchange activity; it is not an open unsolicited exchange application.", "source": { "title": "NGA Foundation GEOINT Group — 2025 magazine", "url": "https://www.nga.mil/assets/files/2025_NGA_Foundation_Magazine_FINAL.pdf", "locator": "Group mission and international partnerships; co-production/data exchange", "evidence_type": "official program publication", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c460a2e0a968" } }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The activity is relevant to the statutory exchange framework, but no particular agreement’s legal citation or receipt authority is established by the magazine.", "source": { "title": "NGA Foundation GEOINT Group — 2025 magazine", "url": "https://www.nga.mil/assets/files/2025_NGA_Foundation_Magazine_FINAL.pdf", "locator": "Group mission and international partnerships; co-production/data exchange", "evidence_type": "official program publication", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c460a2e0a968" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Read the governing source", "url": "https://www.nga.mil/assets/files/2025_NGA_Foundation_Magazine_FINAL.pdf", "type": "reference, not an application portal", "scope": "This source does not accept funding applications." } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Named agreement authority, current signing delegation, permitted release, consideration and map-receipt balance were not verified." ], "research_scope": "Read NGA’s public Foundation GEOINT partnership descriptions and the statutory exchange/receipt categories; did not infer that commercial vendor programs execute these sections.", "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 453", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section453&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 453", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-8f3c2fe3d847" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 455", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section455&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "10 U.S.C. § 455", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-6a1498bdf61c" }, { "title": "NGA Foundation GEOINT Group — 2025 magazine", "url": "https://www.nga.mil/assets/files/2025_NGA_Foundation_Magazine_FINAL.pdf", "locator": "Group mission and international partnerships; co-production/data exchange", "evidence_type": "official program publication", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c460a2e0a968" } ] }, { "record_id": "INT-43", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The new authority has precise preconditions; neither an older IWTSD project nor the current SSO transition establishes those conditions were met.", "routes": [ { "program": "FY 2026 section 1234 emerging-technology cooperation — implementation gap", "administering_office": "Secretary of Defense with State, Commerce and DNI consultation; current executing assignment unverified", "audience": "Only covered partner governments meeting the pre-June 2025 IWTSD-agreement criterion", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Requires a partner Ministry of Defense request and a qualifying IWTSD agreement as of June 1, 2025; not eligibility for every ally or foreign company.", "source": { "title": "Pub. 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No publication date asserted." }, "as_of": "2026-10-04" }, "engagement": { "label": "Current organizational transition notice", "url": "https://bids.iwtsd.gov/Home/DisplayCompleteAnnouncement/2051", "type": "context only", "scope": "Indexed organizational context only; direct fetch timed out. Not a section1234 application or eligible-country designation." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The statute establishes this new authority. The transition notice supplies organizational context, not evidence of use.", "source": { "title": "Pub. 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L. 119-60, § 1234", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "locator": "Cited statutory section; original legal corpus", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-c236d157417e" }, { "title": "IWTSD transition to Secretariat for Special Operations", "url": "https://www.cttso.gov/", "locator": "Capability Development and Innovation transition notice", "evidence_type": "official organizational notice", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-3a63ee4afa59", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed transition notice reviewed; direct access returned HTTP522. Alternative official BIDS notice also indexed but direct fetch timed out. Not proof of section1234 implementation. Automated direct retrieval returned HTTP 522 on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." }, { "title": "IWTSD BIDS — transition to Capability Development and Innovation", "url": "https://bids.iwtsd.gov/Home/DisplayCompleteAnnouncement/2051", "locator": "IWTSD is changing to Capability Development and Innovation announcement", "evidence_type": "official organizational announcement (indexed)", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-740b3b63a0d1", "retrieval_note": "Substantive official indexed notice reviewed; direct fetch timed out. No publication date asserted. Automated direct retrieval did not complete on October 4, 2026. This access check does not establish current legal effect or invalidate independently reviewed indexed evidence; see the cited location and this dossier’s access qualifications." } ], "research_scope": "Exact section 1234/emerging-technology wording searched against DoD/IWTSD/CTTSO and public indexed notices; read current organizational transition and original enacted law. Historical industry events not treated as new-law implementation." }, { "record_id": "INT-44", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "program documented", "summary": "Actual education programs, disaggregated fiscal lines and an IWC support form are documented; university partnership authority is not presented as an open grant.", "routes": [ { "program": "Regional centers and Regional Defense Fellowship Program", "administering_office": "DSCA/DSCU, six regional centers and approved RDFP providers", "audience": "Senior foreign government/security officials; RDFP-approved military and security-ministry participants", "relationship_type": "direct implementation", "eligibility": [ { "text": "RDFP events must satisfy approved irregular-warfare/counterterrorism educational objectives; participants require applicable vetting and official-position eligibility.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM Regional Defense Fellowship Program", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S345", "locator": "S 345 eligibility, planning, funding and vetting provisions", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0f45f55abefe" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "CCMD identifies requirements and program managers obtain course approval, nomination and vetting through the published training process.", "source": { "title": "DSCA SAMM Regional Defense Fellowship Program", "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/program/S345", "locator": "S 345 eligibility, planning, funding and vetting provisions", "evidence_type": "official implementation guidance", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0f45f55abefe" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "FY 2026 enacted/FY 2027 requested: regional centers$87.604 m/$82.545 m; RDFP$14.492 m/$30.407 m; IWC$12 m/$14.632 m. 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No public office-specific intake procedure or operational manual was located in the checked sources.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(1); bounded search finding", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "status": { "label": "Statutory duty; implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The enacted office/duty is verified; public evidence of the specific operational workflow, named program or award was not found.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Section9025 states duties but provides no dedicated appropriation or available award balance.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" }, "kind": "statutory duty, not appropriation", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Assessment is not a standalone power to block investments, compel disclosures, or exercise CFIUS authority.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(1)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "OEC statutory duties", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "type": "legal reference", "scope": "Not a program portal, award announcement or verified contact route." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Direct statutory basis for the duty only; no additional implemented-program linkage asserted.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(1)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Searches returned statute/conference text and an unverified self-reported personnel profile, not an official implementation or award record.", "Do not substitute OSC,AFWERX,CFIUS or EDU activity for proof of OEC implementation." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" }, { "title": "FY 2025 NDAA joint explanatory material", "url": "https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241209/FY25%20NDAA%20JOINT%20EXPLANATORY%20MATERIAL%20FINAL.pdf", "locator": "Sec.924—Establishment of Office of Expanded Competition", "evidence_type": "legislative explanatory material", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "2024 conference explanatory material; precise publication date not asserted.", "source_id": "src-b567845d19d8" } ], "research_scope": "Exact-name searches acrossaf.mil/mil and broaderweb for Office of Expanded Competition + director/capital/investment/2026; reviewed OLRC and conference explanation. Self-reported LinkedIn profile not used as delegation evidence." }, { "record_id": "OEC-02", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "OEC’s critical-technology capital prioritization duty is enacted, but an official operating procedure, contact or public program for this duty was not verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "Office of Expanded Competition — critical-technology capital prioritization", "administering_office": "Statutory office within Office of Secretary of the Air Force; current operational contact/designation not independently verified.", "audience": "Internal government coordination function; no verified external application program.", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Joint Force critical technology or asset needing capital assistance.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(2)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The statute assigns this duty to OEC. No public office-specific intake procedure or operational manual was located in the checked sources.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(2); bounded search finding", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "status": { "label": "Statutory duty; implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The enacted office/duty is verified; public evidence of the specific operational workflow, named program or award was not found.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Section9025 states duties but provides no dedicated appropriation or available award balance.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" }, "kind": "statutory duty, not appropriation", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Prioritization is not an award, loan approval, or proof that a proposed recipient is eligible for a particular instrument.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(2)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "OEC statutory duties", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "type": "legal reference", "scope": "Not a program portal, award announcement or verified contact route." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Direct statutory basis for the duty only; no additional implemented-program linkage asserted.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(2)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Searches returned statute/conference text and an unverified self-reported personnel profile, not an official implementation or award record.", "Do not substitute OSC,AFWERX,CFIUS or EDU activity for proof of OEC implementation." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" }, { "title": "FY 2025 NDAA joint explanatory material", "url": "https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241209/FY25%20NDAA%20JOINT%20EXPLANATORY%20MATERIAL%20FINAL.pdf", "locator": "Sec.924—Establishment of Office of Expanded Competition", "evidence_type": "legislative explanatory material", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "2024 conference explanatory material; precise publication date not asserted.", "source_id": "src-b567845d19d8" } ], "research_scope": "Exact-name searches acrossaf.mil/mil and broaderweb for Office of Expanded Competition + director/capital/investment/2026; reviewed OLRC and conference explanation. Self-reported LinkedIn profile not used as delegation evidence." }, { "record_id": "OEC-03", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The statute expressly includes funding investments. A standalone public OEC investment product, funding allocation and applicant process were not verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "OEC investment-funding duty", "administering_office": "Office of Expanded Competition, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force", "audience": "Entities/technologies relevant to the statutory mission; operational applicant eligibility not verified.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Statutory scope includes promising critical technologies/assets and, for capital assistance, foreign entities; this is not a published program eligibility checklist.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Obtain implementing instrument, program owner and submission process before presenting an application route.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Dedicated program amount and remaining balance not verified; a statutory duty is not an appropriation.", "kind": "Funding evidence not verified", "period": "Checked October 4, 2026", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "No chosen instrument, current delegation or open intake is established by this duty alone.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "status": { "label": "Implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "No standalone public notice or intake was verified in targeted Air Force, DoD/DoW and SAM searches. This is not proof that none exists.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } }, "engagement": { "label": "OEC statutory remit", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "type": "legal reference", "scope": "No verified standalone submission portal. Do not substitute OSC, EDU or a generic contracting contact as OEC intake." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The recorded duty is 10 U.S.C. 9025(c)(3). It does not establish independent current award authority.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } }, "relationship_type": "unverified" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Needed: implementing delegation/instrument, program owner, appropriation/account link, eligibility and public intake (if any).", "Primary search scope: exact office name with investment/capital/apply terms on af.mil, war.gov/defense.gov and sam.gov; statutory and production OSC pages checked. No personal LinkedIn claims used." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" }, { "title": "Public Law 118-159", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "locator": "Section 1092 National Security Capital Forum; section 924 OEC", "published_on": "2024-12-23", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf" }, { "title": "OSC production homepage", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/", "locator": "September 28, 2026 transaction-counsel extension announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-c7a643a4d169" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "OEC-04", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "OEC’s technology-scouting/acquisition coordination duty is enacted, but an official operating procedure, contact or public program for this duty was not verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "Office of Expanded Competition — technology-scouting/acquisition coordination", "administering_office": "Statutory office within Office of Secretary of the Air Force; current operational contact/designation not independently verified.", "audience": "Internal government coordination function; no verified external application program.", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Connect the support to DoD scouting or acquisition elements and adversarial capital flows described in § 9025(c)(1).", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(4)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The statute assigns this duty to OEC. No public office-specific intake procedure or operational manual was located in the checked sources.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(4); bounded search finding", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "status": { "label": "Statutory duty; implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The enacted office/duty is verified; public evidence of the specific operational workflow, named program or award was not found.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Section9025 states duties but provides no dedicated appropriation or available award balance.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" }, "kind": "statutory duty, not appropriation", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Coordination does not automatically transfer another component's authority or authorize OEC to sign its awards.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(4)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "OEC statutory duties", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "type": "legal reference", "scope": "Not a program portal, award announcement or verified contact route." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Direct statutory basis for the duty only; no additional implemented-program linkage asserted.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(4)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Searches returned statute/conference text and an unverified self-reported personnel profile, not an official implementation or award record.", "Do not substitute OSC,AFWERX,CFIUS or EDU activity for proof of OEC implementation." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" }, { "title": "FY 2025 NDAA joint explanatory material", "url": "https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241209/FY25%20NDAA%20JOINT%20EXPLANATORY%20MATERIAL%20FINAL.pdf", "locator": "Sec.924—Establishment of Office of Expanded Competition", "evidence_type": "legislative explanatory material", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "2024 conference explanatory material; precise publication date not asserted.", "source_id": "src-b567845d19d8" } ], "research_scope": "Exact-name searches acrossaf.mil/mil and broaderweb for Office of Expanded Competition + director/capital/investment/2026; reviewed OLRC and conference explanation. Self-reported LinkedIn profile not used as delegation evidence." }, { "record_id": "OEC-05", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "OEC’s vital-asset acceleration duty is enacted, but an official operating procedure, contact or public program for this duty was not verified.", "routes": [ { "program": "Office of Expanded Competition — vital-asset acceleration", "administering_office": "Statutory office within Office of Secretary of the Air Force; current operational contact/designation not independently verified.", "audience": "Internal government coordination function; no verified external application program.", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "The tangible or intangible asset must be vital to U.S. national security.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(5)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "The statute assigns this duty to OEC. No public office-specific intake procedure or operational manual was located in the checked sources.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(5); bounded search finding", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "status": { "label": "Statutory duty; implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "The enacted office/duty is verified; public evidence of the specific operational workflow, named program or award was not found.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "Section9025 states duties but provides no dedicated appropriation or available award balance.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" }, "kind": "statutory duty, not appropriation", "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "The office duty does not state a blanket exemption from fiscal, acquisition, leasing or military-construction requirements.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(5)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "OEC statutory duties", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "type": "legal reference", "scope": "Not a program portal, award announcement or verified contact route." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "Direct statutory basis for the duty only; no additional implemented-program linkage asserted.", "source": { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(5)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Searches returned statute/conference text and an unverified self-reported personnel profile, not an official implementation or award record.", "Do not substitute OSC,AFWERX,CFIUS or EDU activity for proof of OEC implementation." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" }, { "title": "FY 2025 NDAA joint explanatory material", "url": "https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241209/FY25%20NDAA%20JOINT%20EXPLANATORY%20MATERIAL%20FINAL.pdf", "locator": "Sec.924—Establishment of Office of Expanded Competition", "evidence_type": "legislative explanatory material", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "retrieval_note": "2024 conference explanatory material; precise publication date not asserted.", "source_id": "src-b567845d19d8" } ], "research_scope": "Exact-name searches acrossaf.mil/mil and broaderweb for Office of Expanded Competition + director/capital/investment/2026; reviewed OLRC and conference explanation. Self-reported LinkedIn profile not used as delegation evidence." }, { "record_id": "OEC-06", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The statute directs OEC to help DoD provide loans, guarantees or technical assistance, including to foreign entities. It does not identify a standalone open OEC loan program.", "routes": [ { "program": "OEC capital-assistance support", "administering_office": "Office of Expanded Competition, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force", "audience": "Entities/technologies relevant to the statutory mission; operational applicant eligibility not verified.", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Statutory scope includes promising critical technologies/assets and, for capital assistance, foreign entities; this is not a published program eligibility checklist.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Obtain implementing instrument, program owner and submission process before presenting an application route.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "funding": [ { "text": "Dedicated program amount and remaining balance not verified; a statutory duty is not an appropriation.", "kind": "Funding evidence not verified", "period": "Checked October 4, 2026", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "No chosen instrument, current delegation or open intake is established by this duty alone.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "status": { "label": "Implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "No standalone public notice or intake was verified in targeted Air Force, DoD/DoW and SAM searches. This is not proof that none exists.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } }, "engagement": { "label": "OEC statutory remit", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "type": "legal reference", "scope": "No verified standalone submission portal. Do not substitute OSC, EDU or a generic contracting contact as OEC intake." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The recorded duty is 10 U.S.C. 9025(c)(6) and (d)(2). It does not establish independent current award authority.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } }, "relationship_type": "unverified" } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "Needed: implementing delegation/instrument, program owner, appropriation/account link, eligibility and public intake (if any).", "Primary search scope: exact office name with investment/capital/apply terms on af.mil, war.gov/defense.gov and sam.gov; statutory and production OSC pages checked. No personal LinkedIn claims used." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "statute", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" }, { "title": "Public Law 118-159", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "locator": "Section 1092 National Security Capital Forum; section 924 OEC", "published_on": "2024-12-23", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf" }, { "title": "OSC production homepage", "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/", "locator": "September 28, 2026 transaction-counsel extension announcement", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "evidence_type": "official program guidance", "source_id": "src-c7a643a4d169" } ], "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute." }, { "record_id": "OEC-07", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "No public tool, prototype contract or published OEC analytic-tool intake was located with an explicit connection to section 9025(c)(7).", "routes": [ { "program": "OEC due-diligence tool experimentation duty", "administering_office": "Office of Expanded Competition within Office of the Secretary of the Air Force", "audience": "Internal OEC analysts and lawfully participating government partners", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Work must improve defense due diligence or investment analysis and use a lawfully applicable instrument.", "source": { "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-12-23", "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf" } } ], "steps": [ { "text": "Identify the actual project, funds and delegated authority before treating a vendor or tool as an OEC implementation.", "source": { "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-12-23", "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf" } } ], "status": { "label": "Statutory duty; public implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "No specifically attributed public contract, operational tool or submission process was located.", "source": { "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-12-23", "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf" } }, "funding": [ { "text": "No dedicated fund or available balance verified.", "kind": "statutory institutional duty", "period": "current allocation not verified", "source": { "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-12-23", "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf" } } ], "limits": [ { "text": "EDU financial-data services and generic industrial-base analytics are not evidence of an OEC tie.", "source": { "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-12-23", "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf" } } ], "engagement": { "label": "OEC statutory duty", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "type": "published guidance", "scope": "Reference only; not an application portal." }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The enacted duty covers analytic tools and tradecraft; it does not itself establish a specific delegated procurement instrument.", "source": { "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-12-23", "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf" } } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "A public OEC project/contract/tool name, procurement authority, budget and intake remain unverified." ], "sources_checked": [ { "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "published_on": "2024-12-23", "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf" } ], "research_scope": "Exact-office searches acrossAir Force/DoD/DoW and SAM-indexed public material; cross-checked another research agent findings. Excluded similarly named EDU activities and vendor claims without a corroborated OEC relationship." }, { "record_id": "OEC-08", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The OEC duty is enacted, but research did not verify a distinct public implementation route for commercial access and placement. Related offices are not presumed to execute it.", "routes": [ { "program": "OEC commercial access and placement — statutory duty only", "administering_office": "Office of Expanded Competition within the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force; current transaction assignment unverified", "audience": "Government officials; no public applicant category verified", "relationship_type": "unverified", "eligibility": [ { "text": "Apply the assigned duty together with the actual activity’s separate substantive authority, approvals and restrictions.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "steps": [], "funding": [ { "text": "Section9025 does not identify a dedicated appropriation or available balance for this duty.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" }, "kind": "Funding not established", "period": "Statutory conditions; no available balance established" } ], "limits": [ { "text": "Coordination or commercial means do not confer another component’s powers, unrestricted intelligence authority or permission to transfer its funds.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } } ], "status": { "label": "Implementation not verified", "as_of": "2026-10-04", "text": "No public implementing instruction, authorized transaction form, delegation or attributable project was found.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } }, "relationship_to_authority": { "text": "The subsection assigns a duty; no public evidence establishes an OEC–EDU–OSC execution chain for it.", "source": { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } }, "engagement": { "label": "Read the governing source", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "type": "reference, not an application portal", "scope": "This source does not accept funding applications." } } ], "remaining_gaps": [ "No public implementing instruction, authorized transaction form, delegation or attributable project was found.", "Current delegated signer, lawful instrument, resource owner and a verifiable engagement channel remain unresolved." ], "research_scope": "Searched the specific OEC duty, § 9025, Air Force/Defense public implementation references and the enacted § 924 briefing requirement; no public program-specific bridge was found. Absence from this search is not proof no internal activity exists.", "sources_checked": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)", "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim", "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions", "evidence_type": "statute", "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04", "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a" } ] }, { "record_id": "OEC-09", "checked_on": "2026-10-04", "coverage": "implementation not verified", "summary": "The OEC duty is enacted, but research did not verify a distinct public implementation route for whole-of-government coordination. 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