{ "metadata": { "id": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "title": "October 5 U.S. Code coverage supplement", "reviewed_on": "2026-10-05", "scope": "Additional in-scope DoD economic and business mechanisms and adjacent statutory conditions. Not a complete current-law citator or program-implementation review." }, "authorities": [ { "id": "USC-01", "category": "Small-business contracting", "capability": "Reserve contracts and orders for eligible small businesses and use program-specific sole-source routes", "summary": "Use small-business set-asides and multiple-award contract reservations, and work through the distinct 8(a), women-owned, HUBZone, and service-disabled-veteran pathways when each program’s conditions are met. Require applicable small-business subcontracting plans and participation clauses.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3203(b)-(c)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap221-sec3203.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "15 U.S.C. §644(a), (j), (r)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title15/html/USCODE-2024-title15-chap14A-sec644.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "15 U.S.C. §637(a), (d), (m)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title15/html/USCODE-2024-title15-chap14A-sec637.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "15 U.S.C. §657a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title15/html/USCODE-2024-title15-chap14A-sec657a.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "15 U.S.C. §657f", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title15/html/USCODE-2024-title15-chap14A-sec657f.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "authority_holder": "Head of the procuring agency or authorized contracting officer; SBA holds the eligibility and other functions assigned to it", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Head of the procuring agency or authorized contracting officer; SBA holds the eligibility and other functions assigned to it; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Exclusion of particular source or restriction of solicitation to small business concerns; Awards or contracts; Additional powers; HUBZone program; Procurement program for small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap221-sec3203.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Apply the particular route’s eligibility, certification, competition, price, threshold, and subcontracting requirements; these are not interchangeable exceptions.", "8(a) awards require the SBA arrangement and eligible participant contemplated by §637(a). Women-owned, HUBZone, and service-disabled-veteran routes have their own statutory criteria.", "Section 644(r) separately permits partial multiple-award set-asides, order set-asides, and reserved awards; §637(d) governs required subcontracting clauses and plans." ], "limits": [ "Does not give DoD the SBA’s loan, certification, or business-development powers.", "A government-wide goal is not an entitlement to a contract, and no general sole-source authority follows merely from being a small business." ], "funding": [ "Lawfully available procurement or service funds; the cited preference and reservation provisions are not appropriations." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-02", "category": "Supplier development", "capability": "Reimburse mentor assistance and credit development of eligible small-business suppliers", "summary": "Approve mentor-protege agreements for business and technical development, eligible noncompetitive subcontracts, progress or advance payments, and mentor loans. Provide the reimbursements or subcontracting-goal credits expressly authorized for mentors.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4902", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap387-subchapI-sec4902.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Department of Defense Mentor-Protege Program — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap387-subchapI-sec4902.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Mentor and protege must satisfy §4902(c), (d), and (n); SBA affiliation determinations remain relevant.", "An agreement normally lasts no more than three years, with a written unusual-circumstances determination for up to five; the protege’s agreement-entry window is separately governed by subsection (c).", "Apply the applicable reimbursement categories, annual limits, written exceptions, performance reviews, and rules for crediting unreimbursed costs." ], "limits": [ "Mentor loans and subcontract payments are not independent DoD lending authority.", "Participation may not be required as a condition for receiving a contract or subcontract; prohibited fees and joint-venture business-development costs are not reimbursable." ], "funding": [ "Authorized DoD contract line items or a qualifying separate contract for reimbursement; no current funding verified." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation. OLRC search-index text labeled laws effective September 29, 2026 corroborates the section. The old pilot sunsets were removed by P.L. 117-263 §856; do not label the current codified program expired.", "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-03", "category": "Procurement technical assistance", "capability": "Co-fund procurement technical assistance and APEX specialized support for businesses", "summary": "Use cooperative agreements with eligible public, nonprofit, and qualifying tribal entities to furnish procurement technical assistance, including certain non-defense contracts, compliance education, and assistance to covered small businesses growing beyond size standards. Support APEX centers of excellence beyond their geographic service areas.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4951", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap388-sec4951.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4954", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap388-sec4954.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4955", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap388-sec4955.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4958", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap388-sec4958.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4959", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap388-sec4959.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §861", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted FY2026 NDAA text; not a proposal." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Cooperative agreements; Funding; Authority to provide certain types of technical assistance; Advancing small business growth — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap388-sec4951.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use an eligible entity defined by §4951, not an unrestricted grant directly to any company.", "Apply §4954 cost shares and authorized waivers, §4955 funding ceilings and exceptions, and the special covered-small-business definition in §4959.", "AUKUS, export-control, SBIR, cybersecurity, and foreign-ownership compliance education are bounded forms of technical assistance, not regulatory waivers." ], "limits": [ "This is technical-assistance funding, not a general business loan, procurement award, export license, or security clearance.", "National APEX center-of-excellence reach under amended §4958(d) does not eliminate eligibility or fiscal restrictions." ], "funding": [ "Chapter 388 assistance funds subject to statutory caps and shares; amended §4955(e) allows acceptance and use of other federal agency funds for execution and administration." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation. OLRC search-index text corroborated §4954 through September 28, 2026 and amended §4958 through July 14, 2026. P.L. 119-60 §861(b)-(d) read directly.", "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-04", "category": "Alternative-source development", "capability": "Lend or sell replenishment parts for replication and fund qualifying small-business source testing", "summary": "Give domestic businesses access to government replenishment parts for design replication or modification in preparing future offers, and use the separately conditioned qualification-testing route to develop additional small-business sources.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3773", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartD-chap275-subchapI-sec3773.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3243", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap223-sec3243.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §812(a)(6)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted FY2026 NDAA text; not a proposal." }, { "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §1841(f)(2)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted FY2026 NDAA text; not a proposal." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense for replenishment-part programs; head of the procuring agency for qualification testing", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense for replenishment-part programs; head of the procuring agency for qualification testing; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Domestic business concerns: programs for replenishment parts; Encouragement of new competitors: qualification requirement — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartD-chap275-subchapI-sec3773.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Parts under §3773 support later offers for the same or like parts; national-security and inventory restrictions remain applicable.", "For government-paid testing under §3243(d), fewer than two actual manufacturers or their products must be available to compete; the small business or its product must meet the specified standards and reasonably be expected to compete.", "The small business must certify size status; paid testing excludes producing the item or establishing the production or quality-control system.", "Amended §3243(e) separately requires an expedited, risk-based qualification process for advanced manufacturing before or during war or activation of the Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network." ], "limits": [ "Borrowing a part does not itself convey third-party intellectual-property rights or guarantee a later award.", "P.L. 119-60 §812(a)(6) removed the former cost-savings-amortization finding: do not carry that repealed prerequisite into the current route." ], "funding": [ "Lawfully available source-development and procurement funds; no tested company eligibility, current program funding, or accepted qualification verified." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-05", "category": "Competitive supply-base shaping", "capability": "Exclude a source from a competition to establish or sustain alternative supply", "summary": "Conduct a competition while excluding a particular source when an individualized finding supports alternate supply, defense mobilization, essential nonprofit or FFRDC research capability, reliable supply, projected demand, or critical medical, safety, or emergency needs.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3203(a), (c)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap221-sec3203.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "authority_holder": "Head of the procuring agency", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Head of the procuring agency; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Exclusion of particular source or restriction of solicitation to small business concerns — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap221-sec3203.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Make one of the specific determinations in §3203(a)(1); the determination may not cover a class of purchases or contracts.", "Use competitive procedures among the remaining eligible sources." ], "limits": [ "This is not sole-source contracting or a blanket exclusion power; §3204(e)(1) justification-and-approval requirements are inapplicable only as stated in §3203(c)." ], "funding": [ "Applicable acquisition appropriations; no separate fund created." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-06", "category": "Supply-chain security", "capability": "Exclude risky sources or subcontractors from covered national-security-system procurements", "summary": "Take defined source-selection or subcontract-consent actions against supply-chain risk in covered national-security systems and covered IT items, and, with additional findings, restrict disclosure of the supporting information.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3252", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap223-sec3252.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military department", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military department; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Requirements for information relating to supply chain risk — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap223-sec3252.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Limit action to covered procurements, covered systems, and covered IT supply as defined in §3252(d).", "Consult relevant officials, make a written national-security necessity finding and a finding that less intrusive measures are not reasonably available, and notify the specified congressional committees.", "Restrict disclosure only after the further comparative national-security-risk finding required by §3252(b)(2)(C)." ], "limits": [ "This is not a government-wide ban on any disfavored supplier; action must fit the statute’s three covered procurement actions.", "The specialized bid-protest limitation applies as stated in §3252(c), not to every supply-chain decision." ], "funding": [ "Existing acquisition resources; no separate capital or grant authority." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Intelligence, counterintelligence and security", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-07", "category": "Acquisition challenge process", "capability": "Evaluate outside challenge proposals for lower-cost or improved defense acquisition solutions", "summary": "Solicit or receive innovative challenge proposals, obtain independent technical review, and consider favorable proposals for insertion into an acquisition program, using the statutory Challenge Program process.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4062", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapI-sec4062.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Defense Acquisition Challenge Program — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapI-sec4062.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use the preliminary and full-review criteria and conflict-of-interest safeguards in §4062(c)-(h).", "A favorable proposal receives consideration; actual adoption requires the acquiring program and an appropriate implementation funding route." ], "limits": [ "Section 4062(i) prohibits using Challenge Program funds to implement challenge proposals.", "The separate non-major-program pilot in §4062(l) terminated January 7, 2021; the broader program must not be represented as reopening that expired pilot.", "No currently operating intake, BAA, or award was verified in this scrub." ], "funding": [ "Available Challenge Program funds may support authorized review and laboratory assistance, not implementation of selected proposals." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation. OLRC preliminary search-index text labeled laws effective June 3, 2026 still includes this section. Targeted P.L. 119-60 search found no repeal or amendment to §4062.", "family": "Research, innovation and experimentation", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-08", "category": "Exportability and technology protection", "capability": "Cost-share technology-protection and exportability features in designated defense systems", "summary": "Develop technology-protection and exportability features for designated systems to improve allied or partner capability and interoperability, sharing the specified development costs with contractors and conditionally treating the contractor share as allowable independent R&D.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4067", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapI-sec4067.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3762", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartD-chap273-subchapII-sec3762.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment designates systems", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment designates systems; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Technology protection features activities — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapI-sec4067.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use a designated system and the statutory technology-protection purpose.", "Covered contracts normally allocate half the cost to the contractor; another share requires the Secretary’s good-cause determination.", "Allowable IR&D treatment requires the statutory determination and, for a designated system, Milestone B approval." ], "limits": [ "This does not itself license an export, approve a foreign sale, or transfer classified technology." ], "funding": [ "Lawfully available development funds plus contractor cost share; §3762 regulations govern any eligible IR&D treatment." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Research, innovation and experimentation", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-09", "category": "Acquisition research and education", "capability": "Build acquisition and technical expertise through research, education, and civilian training partnerships", "summary": "Maintain civilian-university acquisition research and demonstration activities, data and analytical capacity, and executive education; pair this with Defense Acquisition University partnerships and practical workforce training. A separate Defense Civilian Training Corps route supports accredited civilian-school units and governed financial assistance, service commitments, and graduate appointments.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4142", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap305-sec4142.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §1746a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap87-subchapIV-sec1746a.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2200g", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap113-sec2200g.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2200h", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap113-sec2200h.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2200i", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap113-sec2200i.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately." }, { "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §823", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025, adds §2200h(b) hiring authority terminating December 31, 2029." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, coordinated with Research and Engineering; designated DAU officials", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, coordinated with Research and Engineering; designated DAU officials; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Extramural acquisition innovation and research activities; Acquisition workforce educational partnerships — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap305-sec4142.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Section 4142 includes an acquisition research organization in a civilian university not owned or operated by the Federal Government.", "Keep research, pilot demonstrations, data access, and executive education within §4142(c), and DAU partnership activities within §1746a.", "Any workforce-development account use is subject to available appropriations.", "DCTC participation, financial assistance, and return service are governed by criteria the Secretary establishes under §§2200g–2200i; this is distinct from the §4142 research organization and DAU partnerships.", "Amended §2200h(b) permits the head of a partnering DoD element to appoint a program member for one year and, for successful graduates, renew term appointments or make the specified permanent appointments. Graduate positions under paragraph (2) are GS-9 or equivalent for which qualified; the authority may cover no more than 60 graduates per calendar year.", "The §2200h(b) hiring authority terminates December 31, 2029. Workforce-development-account basic-pay support is limited to term appointments and four years per person, without eliminating other compensation authority." ], "limits": [ "A pilot of acquisition practices is not authority to waive otherwise applicable procurement statutes.", "Organizational and education duties are distinguished from any separately executed award instrument." ], "funding": [ "Sections 4142(d) and 1746a(d) permit use of the specified defense acquisition workforce account, subject to appropriations.", "DCTC term-appointment basic pay follows amended §2200h(b)(3) and the acquisition workforce account provisions; no individual award or appointment verified." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Workforce and expertise", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-10", "category": "Public-private talent exchange", "capability": "Temporarily exchange civilian talent with private-sector organizations", "summary": "Arrange consensual temporary assignments of DoD civilian employees to private organizations or their employees to DoD, under a written three-party agreement and the statute’s employment, ethics, duration, and cost rules.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §1599g", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap81-sec1599g.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §821", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted FY2026 NDAA text; not a proposal." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Public-private talent exchange — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap81-sec1599g.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Agreement of the company and employee is required; an outgoing DoD employee generally undertakes return service equal to twice the assignment.", "Ordinary assignments run three months to two years, with statutory renewals or mission-need determinations up to four years and the cumulative outgoing limit.", "At least 20 percent of annual assignments must be from small businesses; preserve mission performance and applicable workforce restrictions." ], "limits": [ "Incoming private employees remain paid by their employer and may not perform inherently governmental work or access commercially valuable nonpublic information for that employer.", "Their employer may not charge federal contracts for the pay or benefits covering the assignment.", "P.L. 119-60 §821 removed 18 U.S.C.207 from this provision’s deemed-employee list; the other enumerated ethics provisions remain." ], "funding": [ "The specified defense acquisition workforce fund may cover qualifying program salary, travel, and administration expenses; current balances unverified." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation. OLRC preliminary text labeled effective July 15, 2026 corroborates the §821 amendment.", "family": "Workforce and expertise", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-11", "category": "Intergovernmental and research talent exchange", "capability": "Exchange personnel with governments, universities, nonprofits, and FFRDCs through IPA assignments", "summary": "Arrange assignments for work of mutual concern with eligible governments, higher-education institutions, and defined other organizations, using appointment or detail and the statute’s reimbursement and travel authorities.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "5 U.S.C. §3371", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title5/html/USCODE-2024-title5-partIII-subpartB-chap33-subchapVI-sec3371.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "5 U.S.C. §3372", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title5/html/USCODE-2024-title5-partIII-subpartB-chap33-subchapVI-sec3372.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "5 U.S.C. §3373", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title5/html/USCODE-2024-title5-partIII-subpartB-chap33-subchapVI-sec3373.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "5 U.S.C. §3374", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title5/html/USCODE-2024-title5-partIII-subpartB-chap33-subchapVI-sec3374.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "5 U.S.C. §3375", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title5/html/USCODE-2024-title5-partIII-subpartB-chap33-subchapVI-sec3375.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "authority_holder": "Head of the federal agency, including a military department", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Head of the federal agency, including a military department; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "General provisions; Assignment of employees to State or local governments; Assignments of employees from State or local governments; Travel expenses — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title5/html/USCODE-2024-title5-partIII-subpartB-chap33-subchapVI-sec3371.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Obtain counterpart concurrence and employee consent; document mutual benefit.", "Apply §3371 entity definitions and the excluded categories of federal employees in §3372(a).", "Ordinary assignments are limited to two years plus a possible two-year extension; special tribal rules differ.", "Outgoing federal employees undertake equivalent return service, and travel reimbursement carries its own written agreement." ], "limits": [ "This is not a general exchange mechanism for every for-profit company; use the eligible-organization definitions and applicable personnel regulations.", "Pay, reimbursement, benefits, ethics, and employee status depend on whether the arrangement is an appointment, detail, or leave-without-pay assignment." ], "funding": [ "Sections 3373-3375 authorize the stated reimbursements, pay treatment, and travel expenses from appropriate agency appropriations." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Workforce and expertise", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-12", "category": "STEM education and laboratory partnerships", "capability": "Support technical education, graduate training, and laboratory partnerships", "summary": "Use distinct technical-education, graduate-fellowship, K–12, STARBASE, and defense-laboratory partnership routes. Support may include grants, contracts, cash awards, personnel, internships, research participation, equipment, and the separately bounded Japanese language/culture training program for scientists, engineers, and managers.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2193", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2193.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2193b", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2193b.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2194", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2194.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "15 U.S.C. §3710(i)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title15/html/USCODE-2024-title15-chap63-sec3710.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2191", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2191.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2192", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2192.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2192b", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2192b.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2193a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2193a.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2198", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2198.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense and authorized defense-laboratory directors; the relevant Secretaries for STARBASE support", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense and authorized defense-laboratory directors; the relevant Secretaries for STARBASE support; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Improvement of education in technical fields: grants for higher education in science and mathematics; Department of Defense STARBASE Program; Education partnerships; Utilization of Federal technology — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2193.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Section 2193 student grants concern national-security-critical scientific and engineering disciplines, are paid to the enrolled student’s institution, and may not exceed attendance cost.", "Section 2194 agreements are with qualifying U.S. educational institutions; apply its priority requirements and the separate conditions for equipment loans, surplus transfers, and financial assistance.", "STARBASE under §2193b is a separate K–12 program with academy, selection, and support conditions; additional academies beyond the normal state cap require the specified waiver and expressly available appropriations.", "Equipment given under 15 U.S.C. 3710(i) must be excess to agency needs and support technical or scientific education or research at an educational institution or nonprofit.", "Section 2191 NDSEG fellowships are for U.S. citizens or nationals pursuing priority graduate fields and awarded solely on academic ability through nationwide competition; no geographic preference.", "Section 2192(b) permits contracts, cooperative agreements, grants, cash awards, voluntary services, and educational-event support in furtherance of authorized STEM education, unless the underlying provision specifies otherwise.", "Section 2192b supports students and teachers at schools determined to have significant numbers of military dependents; §2193a separately permits general elementary/secondary mathematics and science improvement programs.", "Section 2198 is a distinct competitive grant route to U.S. higher-education or nonprofit institutions for Japanese language and culture training of scientists, engineers, and managers; grant criteria address laboratory participation, Japanese research placements, defense-critical technology, and an appropriate nonfederal cost share." ], "limits": [ "Do not import SMART service-obligation terms into §2193 student grants; these are distinct authorities.", "An education partnership is not a general unrestricted commercial subsidy, and equipment access does not convey all associated IP.", "Do not impose SMART-style return service on NDSEG fellowships without a separate applicable basis. No current §2198 Japanese-training program or solicitation was verified." ], "funding": [ "Appropriate available education and research funds; STARBASE may accept the financial or other support enumerated in §2193b(f); partnership financial assistance uses new and separate contracts, agreements, or grants under §2194(b)(8)." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Workforce and expertise", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-13", "category": "Cyber workforce development", "capability": "Fund cyber scholarships, university cyber programs, and qualifying graduate appointments", "summary": "Provide cyber-discipline education support tied to DoD service, award institutional grants for faculty, curricula, laboratories, and research, and appoint eligible scholarship graduates to cyber positions under the statutory hiring route. The cyber academic-engagement office also has separately bounded authority for educational contracts, cooperative agreements, grants, awards, and voluntary services.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2200", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap112-sec2200.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2200a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap112-sec2200a.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2200b", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap112-sec2200b.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2192c(e)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2192c.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2200c", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap112-sec2200c.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; enacted FY2026 changes identified separately." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; Director of the cyber academic-engagement office for §2192c(e) functions", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; Director of the cyber academic-engagement office for §2192c(e) functions; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Programs; purpose; Scholarship program; Grant program — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap112-sec2200.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Scholarships require a qualifying degree or certificate program and a service agreement under §2200a; the minimum obligation is three-fourths of the supported degree-pursuit period, in addition to other obligations.", "Apply academic-progress, eligible-expense, repayment, and funding-allocation rules; at least half of scholarship funds and the stated associate-degree share have specified institutional restrictions.", "Institutional grants under §2200b have the four enumerated purposes.", "The special appointment route applies to successful scholarship graduates who owe DoD service; competitive conversion requires two years of satisfactory substantially continuous service.", "Apply the institutional considerations in §2200c for scholarship and grant selection.", "Section 2192c(e) additional instruments further a provision supporting cyber-related education in chapter 111 or elsewhere in Title 10 and yield to any contrary specification in that provision; they do not remove the distinct scholarship-service or institutional-grant conditions." ], "limits": [ "Do not confuse institutional cyber grants with an unrestricted scholarship to any student or a general direct-hire power." ], "funding": [ "Available Cyber Scholarship Program funds and lawfully available institutional grant funds; no current solicitation or appropriation verified." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Workforce and expertise", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-14", "category": "Trademark licensing", "capability": "License military trademarks and retain the authorized fees", "summary": "License specified military trademarks and other covered marks, retain fees for the licensing program and eligible morale, welfare, and recreation uses, and apply special nonexclusive licensing terms for qualifying U.S. toy or hobby manufacturers.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2260", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap134-subchapII-sec2260.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary concerned, including the Secretary of Defense for Defense Agencies and Field Activities", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary concerned, including the Secretary of Defense for Defense Agencies and Field Activities; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Licensing of intellectual property: retention of fees — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap134-subchapII-sec2260.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Designate the marks whose fees will be retained and follow the prescribed regulations.", "For qualifying toy or hobby companies, use nonexclusive, nontransferable licenses and the special cost-recovery-plus-nominal fee restriction.", "Retained fees are available in the receipt year and following two fiscal years." ], "limits": [ "This covers the enumerated marks, not a general license of patented inventions, classified information, or weapon technical data.", "Receipts first support registration and program costs; only excess supports specified MWR activities." ], "funding": [ "Express retained licensing-fee authority subject to §2260(d)-(e); no current receipts verified." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Intellectual property and technology transfer", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-15", "category": "Commercial equipment leasing", "capability": "Lease commercial vehicles and equipment when practicable and efficient", "summary": "Use leasing to acquire commercial vehicles and equipment on a determination that leasing is practicable and efficient.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3681", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartC-chap258-sec3681.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3133", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartA-chap207-sec3133.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Leasing of commercial vehicles and equipment — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartC-chap258-sec3681.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Make the §3681 practicability-and-efficiency determination and comply with applicable acquisition and fiscal rules.", "If using §3133 to cross a fiscal year, the lease period excluding extension options must not exceed one year; that provision separately permits obligation of the total contract amount." ], "limits": [ "Section 3681 supplies no blanket long-term funding exception, capital-lease authorization, or waiver of competition.", "Special vessel, aircraft, and combat-vehicle lease restrictions in chapter 257 must be checked when applicable." ], "funding": [ "Appropriate lease/acquisition funds; §3133 supplies only its narrowly defined crossing-fiscal-year treatment." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-16", "category": "Defense-industry education", "capability": "Educate eligible defense-industry employees at the Naval Postgraduate School", "summary": "Admit eligible employees of defense firms to specified Naval Postgraduate School master’s or professional-certificate instruction in defense product development and systems engineering, charging and retaining tuition as authorized.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §8549", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleC-partIII-chap855-sec8549.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of the Navy; President of the Naval Postgraduate School for tuition", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of the Navy; President of the Naval Postgraduate School for tuition; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Defense industry civilians: admission to defense product development program — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleC-partIII-chap855-sec8549.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Employee must work for a firm providing significant and substantial defense-related systems, products, or services, and remain with that firm.", "No more than 125 such employees may be enrolled at once; an annual Secretary determination must establish mission benefit and space availability without expanding faculty, course offerings, or facilities.", "The specified defense-focused curriculum must not be readily available through other schools, and tuition must meet the statutory floor." ], "limits": [ "This is bounded admission to instruction, not a general company training grant or guaranteed seat." ], "funding": [ "Tuition receipts are retained to defray instruction costs and specifically identified in school records." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Workforce and expertise", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-17", "category": "Simplified and emergency purchasing", "capability": "Use simplified purchasing and micro-purchases, with special emergency flexibility", "summary": "Use the statutory simplified-acquisition and micro-purchase procedures, including purchases without competitive quotations at the applicable micro-purchase level when price is reasonable, and use enhanced emergency thresholds or narrow commercial-treatment authority after the required determination.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3205", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap221-sec3205.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3571", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartC-chap251-sec3571.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3572", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartC-chap251-sec3572.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3573", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartC-chap251-sec3573.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "41 U.S.C. §1901", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title41/html/USCODE-2024-title41-subtitleI-divsnB-chap19-sec1901.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "41 U.S.C. §1902", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title41/html/USCODE-2024-title41-subtitleI-divsnB-chap19-sec1902.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "41 U.S.C. §1903", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title41/html/USCODE-2024-title41-subtitleI-divsnB-chap19-sec1903.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "41 U.S.C. §1908", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title41/html/USCODE-2024-title41-subtitleI-divsnB-chap19-sec1908.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "authority_holder": "Head of the procuring agency and authorized contracting or purchasing officials", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Head of the procuring agency and authorized contracting or purchasing officials; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed" ], "executor": [ "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative" ], "partners": [ "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Simplified procedures for small purchases; Simplified acquisition threshold; Implementation of simplified acquisition procedures; Micro-purchase threshold; Simplified acquisition procedures; Procedures applicable to purchases below micro-purchase threshold; Special emergency procurement authority — statutory holder and execution conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap221-sec3205.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use the applicable current threshold, including authorized inflation adjustments and FAR implementation; nominal dollar amounts in older Code editions are not necessarily the operating threshold.", "Do not split a larger requirement to evade limits; promote competition to the maximum extent practicable and distribute micro-purchases equitably among qualified suppliers.", "Section 1903 requires the head-of-agency determination for one of the enumerated contingency, attack-response, international-disaster, or emergency purposes.", "The §1903(c) commercial-treatment power applies only to the specified attack-defense/recovery category and retains the stated sole-source cost-rule exceptions." ], "limits": [ "This is not a general suspension of competition or fiscal law, and emergency thresholds are not available merely because a purchase is urgent." ], "funding": [ "Available acquisition appropriations; the procedure itself creates no funding." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.", "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.", "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-18", "category": "Dual-use critical technology assistance", "capability": "Co-fund competitive dual-use critical technology projects", "summary": "Support defense-relevant dual-use research, development, and application through grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, research other transactions, and technical or laboratory assistance.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4831", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap383.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4831: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap383.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use competitive project selection and statutory national-security, technical, personnel, market, cost-sharing, and nonduplication criteria.", "Federal funding normally may not exceed half of total project cost; a particularly meritorious project may exceed that share only on the specified insufficient-non-Federal-resources determination." ], "limits": [ "Section 4021 governs the research other-transaction instrument.", "Small-business cost-sharing arrangements and a period of at least 120 days to arrange required resources are governed by subsection (c)." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Research, innovation and experimentation", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-19", "category": "Laboratory diversification partnerships", "capability": "Establish cost-shared laboratory–industry dual-use partnerships", "summary": "Establish competitively selected partnerships between DoD laboratories, eligible firms, and nonprofit research corporations, using grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, research OTs, CRADAs, and technical assistance.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4833", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap383.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4832", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap383.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4833: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap383.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4832: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap383.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Require substantial non-Federal contributions commensurate with risk and benefit; apply in-kind contribution rules.", "Use statutory competition and selection criteria; eligible DoD-sponsored FFRDCs count as laboratories for §4833." ], "limits": [ "The §4832 encouragement and planning duties do not independently authorize unrestricted awards; §4833 and the underlying instruments provide the operative paths.", "Not every technology-transfer program is evidence of present operation of this particular statutory program." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Research, innovation and experimentation", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-20", "category": "Foreign critical-technology monitoring", "capability": "Finance nonprofit offices monitoring foreign critical technologies", "summary": "Provide financial assistance through cooperative arrangements with eligible nonprofit industrial or professional organizations to establish foreign critical-technology monitoring and assessment offices.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4834", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap383.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4834: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap383.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Recipient must have economic and scientific interests in dual-use critical-technology research, development, and application.", "Offices may be established in Europe, Pacific Rim countries, or other countries the Secretary considers appropriate." ], "limits": [ "This is a specialized monitoring-assistance power, not a general foreign investment or intelligence collection authority." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Research, innovation and experimentation", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-21", "category": "Manufacturing technology development", "capability": "Develop and transition advanced defense manufacturing technologies", "summary": "Carry out the Manufacturing Technology Program through military departments and Defense Agencies to reduce acquisition, sustainment, manufacturing, and repair costs and cycle times; award competed grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, or OTs and plan transition to users.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4841", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap384.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4842", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap384.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §1841(f)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Adds the advanced-manufacturing definition to §4841(f)." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §1846(a)(1)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Changes §4842 Panel leadership to USD(A&S)/USD(R&E) cochairs." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering administers the Manufacturing Technology Program", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering administers the Manufacturing Technology Program; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4841: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap384.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4842: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap384.htm" }, { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, §1841(f): statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm" }, { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, §1846(a)(1): statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Require user participation and transition implementation plans.", "Use competitive awards and evaluate recipient cost sharing; negotiate best-value sharing where only one offer is received." ], "limits": [ "A statutory program framework does not certify an open funding opportunity.", "The Joint Defense Manufacturing Technology Panel coordinates requirements and planning; it is not itself an unrestricted grant or investment vehicle." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "FY2026 amendments to the manufacturing definition and Panel leadership are incorporated. Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-22", "category": "Industrial reserve property", "capability": "Maintain, lease, transfer, and release the Defense Industrial Reserve", "summary": "Retain a minimum emergency nucleus of government-owned industrial plants and manufacturing equipment, direct leases and interagency transfers, dispose of unneeded property, and transfer qualifying already-held equipment to nonprofit training or educational institutions.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4881", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap385.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4881: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap385.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Determine which plants or equipment belong in the Reserve and which are excess.", "Apply statutory retention policy, property-management rules, educational public-interest findings, and military-department reimbursement of reserve storage/repair/overhead costs." ], "limits": [ "Reliance on private industry is the general policy; Reserve holdings are limited to emergency and specified defense-production needs.", "Disposal remains subject to applicable law except for the specifically stated educational transfer exception." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-23", "category": "Wartime industrial mobilization", "capability": "Order priority wartime production and conditionally take possession of industrial plants", "summary": "In war or imminent war, order needed materials under §4882 with mandatory precedence and, on specified refusals, take possession of suitable plants and manufacture needed products; 50 U.S.C. §82 separately covers wartime naval ship and war-material orders, contract modification, output requisition, and factory use.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4882", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap385.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "50 U.S.C. §82", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "President acting through department heads under §4882; President under 50 U.S.C. §82", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "President acting through department heads under §4882; President under 50 U.S.C. §82; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4882: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap385.htm" }, { "title": "50 U.S.C. §82: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Establish the statutory war/imminent-war predicate and the specific ordering or plant-possession conditions.", "Provide fair and just compensation or rental; §82 actions are subject to its wartime and appropriated-amount conditions." ], "limits": [ "Not ordinary peacetime DPA procurement or an unrestricted Secretary of Defense seizure power.", "Section 4882 possession requires the specified failure to honor priority, production, or reasonable-price terms; §82 has its own distinct statutory scope." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-24", "category": "Technical information and test access", "capability": "Supply technical samples and equipment and sell laboratory or range access", "summary": "Sell, rent, lend, or give qualifying samples, drawings, and manufacturing information; sell, rent, or lend equipment for exclusive independent R&D or friendly-government demonstrations; provide paid testing and laboratory, research-center, or range access.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4892", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap385.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military department", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military department; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4892: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap385.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Make the required national-defense-interest determination under Secretary of Defense regulations.", "Protect third-party information rights and confidential test results." ], "limits": [ "Equipment use under subsection (a)(2) is limited to independent R&D or friendly-foreign-government demonstrations.", "General facility access under (a)(4) must not directly compete with the domestic private sector; testing/access fees may not exceed direct and indirect costs." ], "funding": [ "Authorized fees may be credited to the providing activity’s appropriations or other funds; fee schedules must conform to statutory limits." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Intellectual property and technology transfer", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-25", "category": "Critical-infrastructure credit", "capability": "Guarantee loans for defense-critical firms’ infrastructure protection", "summary": "Guarantee principal, interest, or both on loans for eligible firms’ critical-infrastructure protection improvements or refinancing of such improvements.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4981", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4982", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4983", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4984", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4985", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4981: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4982: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4983: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4984: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4985: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Verify significant U.S. R&D/engineering/manufacturing, qualifying ownership or foreign-parent conditions, critical DoD technology/services, cyberterrorism-prevention standards, and recipient reports.", "Use only advance appropriations authority for the extent and amount of guarantees." ], "limits": [ "Aggregate principal guaranteed in a fiscal year is capped at $10 million across all borrowers.", "Exposure and administrative fees, transferrability, applicable guarantee limitations, program regulations, and reporting requirements apply.", "No open program, current appropriation, or presently accepting application office is verified." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-26", "category": "Defense export loan guarantees", "capability": "Guarantee eligible defense-export sale and long-term-lease financing", "summary": "Issue guarantees against principal or interest losses for financing defense-article, defense-service, or design-and-construction sales or long-term leases to the statutorily specified foreign countries.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4971", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4972", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4973", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4974", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4975", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 108-287, §8065 (as amended)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ287/html/PLAW-108publ287.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Permanent authority reproduced in the official §4971 statutory notes, as recodified by Pub. L. 116-283 §1873(d)." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4971: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4972: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4973: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4974: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §4975: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartI-chap389.htm" }, { "title": "Pub. L. 108-287, §8065 (as amended): statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ287/html/PLAW-108publ287.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Confirm covered-country eligibility under §4971(b), export-control compliance, applicable terms, and fee requirements.", "Read the continuing appropriations provision in Pub. L. 108-287 §8065 with chapter 389." ], "limits": [ "The continuing provision caps total contingent liability at $15 billion and requires country-paid exposure fees that cannot be financed in the guaranteed loan.", "No guarantee payments for losses caused by the payee’s fraud or misrepresentation; no acceleration beyond original loan-payment terms.", "Legal authority does not establish an active lending window or current execution arrangements." ], "funding": [ "Chapter 389 requires advance appropriations provision; the permanent §4971 note supplies a continuing guarantee authorization within its cap and fee/reporting conditions. Administrative-fee receipts have specifically authorized uses." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "International business, logistics and investment", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-27", "category": "Navy ship-repair grants", "capability": "Co-fund nonnuclear ship-repair capacity and maritime workforce training", "summary": "Provide grants for eligible nonnuclear ship-repair or alteration facilities’ capital improvement projects and maritime training improving Navy repair productivity, capability, quality, or workforce skills.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2219", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap131.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of the Navy", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of the Navy; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2219: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap131.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Confirm sufficient non-Federal financing, recipient implementation authority, and the required Navy-repair benefit.", "Require project completion, return of unused or late funds, records/audit access, and domestic product/material procurement." ], "limits": [ "Federal grant share may not exceed 75 percent.", "No land acquisition and no ordinary building construction; piers, dry docks, and structures supporting them are the statutory exceptions." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-28", "category": "Sealift capital and support", "capability": "Finance defense sealift vessels and accept sealift-specific support", "summary": "Use the National Defense Sealift Fund for authorized sealift construction, purchase, conversion, operation, maintenance, charter, and private-vessel defense features; accept money, personal property other than vessels, and in-kind sealift support.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2218", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap131.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §1022", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted amendment or statutory note reviewed." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2218: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap131.htm" }, { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, §1022: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Observe authorized-purpose, fund-deposit, vessel-origin, shipyard, reporting, and notification requirements.", "Receipts and accepted contributions must be handled under the fund provisions." ], "limits": [ "The usual U.S.-construction rules have limited used-vessel recapitalization exceptions, with findings, certifications, and congressional notice.", "FY2026 §1022 raises the §2218(f)(3)(C) ceiling on foreign-constructed vessels from 10 to 12.", "Deposited appropriations ordinarily expire for new obligations five years after the appropriation fiscal year." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "The used foreign-vessel cap is the amended 12-vessel cap, not the 2024 baseline’s 10. Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-29", "category": "Sea-based deterrence contracting", "capability": "Use specialized shipbuilding economic-order and incremental funding authorities", "summary": "Use the National Sea-Based Deterrence Fund for authorized ballistic-missile submarine acquisition and specialized economic-order-quantity, advance-construction, incremental-funding, and critical-component multiyear contracts.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2218a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap131.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense administers the Fund; Secretary of the Navy exercises the contract authorities", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense administers the Fund; Secretary of the Navy exercises the contract authorities; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2218a: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap131.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use authorized purposes and the eligible vessel/component definitions.", "Include appropriations-contingent payment terms and statutory termination-liability limits." ], "limits": [ "Not a general-purpose shipbuilding fund or generic authority to buy all naval systems incrementally.", "Termination liability under the special contract authorities is limited to the funding obligated at termination." ], "funding": [ "Appropriations deposited in the National Sea-Based Deterrence Fund; ordinarily five-year obligation availability following the appropriation fiscal year." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-30", "category": "Army industrial cooperative arrangements", "capability": "Share Army industrial work, facilities, and joint competitive offers", "summary": "Working-capital-funded Army industrial facilities may collaborate with non-Army entities on military or commercial projects, including shared work, sales, facility/equipment use, and joint offers for federal competitive procurements.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §7544", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleB-partIV-chap763.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Responsible Army major subordinate command commander as specified in §7544(f)", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Responsible Army major subordinate command commander as specified in §7544(f); any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §7544: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleB-partIV-chap763.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Ensure substantial facility performance, noninterference with DoD work, and a listed capacity/cost/core-skill objective.", "Apply full-cost recovery, indemnity conditions, export controls, and property-lease law." ], "limits": [ "Commercial sales normally require a finding that adequate domestic commercial sources are unavailable, subject to specified DoD and export-related exceptions.", "Multiyear contracts are limited to five years absent another law.", "Incremental customer payments and payment in kind are allowed but do not eliminate cost-recovery requirements." ], "funding": [ "Sales proceeds are credited to the working-capital fund incurring the costs; incremental payments and in-kind payments are expressly permitted." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-31", "category": "Installation utility sales", "capability": "Sell local installation utilities and related services", "summary": "Sell listed utilities and related services to purchasers within or immediately near a military activity, and make minor distribution-system expansions or extensions to meet those local needs.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2686", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary concerned or statutory designee", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary concerned or statutory designee; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2686: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Find that another local source is unavailable and that the sale serves national defense or the public interest.", "Use prescribed prices, periods, and regulations." ], "limits": [ "Limited to the listed utilities and related services and the defined local vicinity.", "Not a general utility-market trading or infrastructure-lending power." ], "funding": [ "Sale receipts are credited to the appropriation currently available to supply the utility or service." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Energy, environment and communities", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-32", "category": "Environmental mitigation markets", "capability": "Buy wetland, conservation, and water-quality mitigation credits", "summary": "Pay approved wetland mitigation banks or consolidated user sites, conservation banks or in-lieu-fee sponsors, and pollutant banking or water-quality trading programs to mitigate effects of qualifying military activities.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2694b", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2694c", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2694d", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense for Defense Agency matters", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense for Defense Agency matters; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2694b: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2694c: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2694d: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use the approved program and applicable environmental regulatory guidance for the specific type of credit.", "Tie payments to eligible military operations, training, testing, construction, or authorized pollutant discharge, as the particular section requires." ], "limits": [ "These are distinct mitigation mechanisms with their own predicates, not a general power to speculate in environmental credits.", "Wetland-bank payments replace mitigation through creation of a wetland on federal property under §2694b." ], "funding": [ "Qualifying payments may be eligible military-construction project costs; §2694c expressly permits specified O&M, MILCON, RDT&E, and Guam-account funds subject to availability." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Energy, environment and communities", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-33", "category": "Civil-aircraft landing fees", "capability": "Charge and retain fees for civil use of military airfields", "summary": "Impose uniform landing fees on civil aircraft using military airfields and credit the receipts to airfield operations and maintenance.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2697", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense prescribes uniform fee amounts", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of a military department; Secretary of Defense prescribes uniform fee amounts; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2697: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Apply the uniform fee schedule and credit receipts to the current-fiscal-year airfield O&M appropriation.", "Determine whether a lease, license, or other real-estate agreement already provides landing-fee consideration and offset the appropriate amounts." ], "limits": [ "Fee authority does not itself approve otherwise prohibited civil access or joint use.", "Receipts retain the purposes and availability period of the credited appropriation." ], "funding": [ "Landing-fee receipts may fund the operation and maintenance of the relevant airfield under the statutory crediting rule." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Property, construction and housing", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-34", "category": "FFRDC land and facilities", "capability": "Lease or convey facilities without consideration to support DoD FFRDC contracts", "summary": "Lease land, infrastructure, and facilities without consideration to a DoD-sponsored FFRDC, and convey facilities and improvements to support the center’s DoD contract.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2669", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of a military department", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of a military department; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2669: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "The FFRDC must be sponsored by and contracted with DoD, and the property arrangement must further the contract’s purposes.", "Apply reversion/transfer or demolition terms and appropriate force protection for commercial construction standards." ], "limits": [ "Lease ends at 50 years or contract termination/nonrenewal, whichever is earlier.", "Statutory exemptions from specified property and competition laws are confined to this covered-FFRDC pathway." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Property, construction and housing", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-35", "category": "Installation and energy resilience projects", "capability": "Build installation, water, and energy-resilience improvements under specialized authorities", "summary": "Carry out authorized installation-resilience, stormwater, shoreline, water-resilience, and energy-resilience/conservation projects, including specified off-installation infrastructure and conditional O&M-funded construction.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2815", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2815a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2914", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §2874", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted amendment or statutory note reviewed." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense and Secretary concerned as allocated by each section", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense and Secretary concerned as allocated by each section; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2815: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2815a: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2914: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm" }, { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, §2874: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Match the project to the applicable military-construction, minor-construction, community-infrastructure, buffer, reserve-facility, or defense-access-road authority.", "For O&M-funded projects, make the section-specific certification and give the required seven-day notice; other §2815 projects generally require 14-day notice." ], "limits": [ "The §2815 O&M cap is $125 million per military department per fiscal year; §2914 has a distinct $100 million annual O&M cap.", "Special project location and funding rules do not authorize unrestricted civilian infrastructure grants.", "FY2026 §2874 changes §2815(a) to expressly encompass unspecified minor projects via §2805; it does not erase project/funding predicates." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "§2815(a) is read as amended by FY2026 §2874; the dated report requirement is not treated as an expiration of project authority. Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Energy, environment and communities", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-36", "category": "Housing leasing and build-to-lease", "capability": "Lease existing housing or competitively procure housing to be built and leased", "summary": "Acquire suitable military family or unaccompanied housing by lease under §2874; use the separate shortage-based family-housing lease and congressionally authorized build-to-lease mechanisms under §§2828 and 2835.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2874", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2828", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2835", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary concerned or Secretary of the military department as specified", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary concerned or Secretary of the military department as specified; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2874: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2828: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2835: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Select the applicable statutory mechanism; §2828 requires a housing shortage and an enumerated justification, with unit/rental ceilings and adjustments.", "For §2835, obtain project authorization, compete the lease, supply cost-effectiveness analysis and notice, and use project/year-specific appropriations clauses." ], "limits": [ "§2835 build-to-lease contracts may not exceed 20 years excluding construction time.", "§2874 has its own appropriate-term authority; the §2835 ceiling is not generalized to every housing lease.", "Leasing is distinct from the government lending, equity, and property-outlease instruments." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Property, construction and housing", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-37", "category": "Privatized unaccompanied housing", "capability": "Acquire or construct privatized unaccompanied housing under renewed temporary authority", "summary": "Contract with appropriate private entities for U.S. military unaccompanied housing under chapter 169’s alternative authorities and provide the section-specific assignment, partial housing allowance, and funding arrangements.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2881a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-21, §20001(c)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted amendment or statutory note reviewed." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary concerned; Secretary of Defense for specified allowance and fund-transfer functions", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary concerned; Secretary of Defense for specified allowance and fund-transfer functions; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2881a: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm" }, { "title": "Pub. L. 119-21, §20001(c): statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Apply §2881a as amended by Pub. L. 119-21 §20001(c), not the superseded three-project Navy pilot.", "Use the Military Unaccompanied Housing Improvement Fund and statutory notice for additional transfers." ], "limits": [ "Authority to enter contracts expires September 30, 2029.", "The expanded partial housing allowance is limited to the eligible members and privatized housing contemplated by the section." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "The 2025 amendment removes the old three-project Navy limitation, substitutes Secretary concerned, and changes the contract sunset from 2009 to September 30, 2029. Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Property, construction and housing", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-38", "category": "Demand-response participation", "capability": "Earn utility-bill reductions or incentives for reducing peak energy demand", "summary": "Participate in electric-utility, grid-operator, state, or qualifying aggregator demand-response and load-management programs and receive the authorized financial incentives.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2919", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense, military-department Secretaries, and heads of Defense Agencies or other DoD instrumentalities", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense, military-department Secretaries, and heads of Defense Agencies or other DoD instrumentalities; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2919: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use a program operated by one of the section’s enumerated parties.", "Treat incentives either as a utility-bill reduction or a deposit into the Energy Savings Financial Incentives Fund." ], "limits": [ "Fund use for energy-management initiatives is limited to the extent provided in an appropriations Act.", "Not an unrestricted right to retain or spend all commercial energy receipts." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Energy, environment and communities", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-39", "category": "Fuel storage and distribution contracts", "capability": "Secure long-term fuel logistics with renewal and facility-purchase options", "summary": "Contract for liquid-fuel or natural-gas storage facilities, storage, handling, or distribution, with limited renewal periods and an optional end-of-contract purchase of the facility.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2922", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military department", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military department; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2922: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use contracts for the specified liquid-fuel or natural-gas logistics activities." ], "limits": [ "Initial contract period may not exceed five years; renewals may be up to five years each and total duration may not exceed 30 years.", "The optional facility purchase has the particular statutory advance-payment/title exceptions; it is not a general real-estate acquisition waiver." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Energy, environment and communities", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-40", "category": "Fuel acquisition flexibility", "capability": "Exchange or sell defined fuels and conditionally waive fuel-contract procedures", "summary": "Acquire defined fuels or related services by exchange, sell DoD defined fuels on a public-interest determination, and waive specified contracting rules when adverse market conditions and expeditious acquisition findings justify it.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2922e", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2924", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2922e: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2924: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use the defined fuel-source scope in §2924.", "For waivers, find adverse or near-term adverse acquisition market conditions and that the waiver expedites or facilitates government acquisition." ], "limits": [ "Waiver power concerns prescribed contracting formation, terms, and performance requirements, not a general waiver of every law.", "Fuel sale receipts retain the availability period of the fuel-acquisition appropriation to which credited." ], "funding": [ "Authorized sale proceeds may be credited to DoD appropriations for defined fuels or related services." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Energy, environment and communities", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-41", "category": "Renewable electricity multiyear purchases", "capability": "Buy renewable electricity under a ten-year multiyear contract", "summary": "Contract for electricity from statutorily defined renewable sources for up to ten years under a dedicated electricity-purchase authority.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2922i", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2922i: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "For terms over five years, prepare a business-case analysis and determine cost effectiveness and that an economical purchase is not possible without the longer term." ], "limits": [ "Does not replace the distinct 30-year energy-production facility authority in §2922a.", "Other DoD multiyear authorities remain available subject to their own conditions." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Energy, environment and communities", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-42", "category": "Energy-savings retention", "capability": "Retain and reinvest energy-cost savings in specified installation or operational purposes", "summary": "Retain an amount of appropriated funds equal to realized energy savings for the fiscal year and succeeding fiscal year, use the prescribed installation or operational-energy allocations, and make expressly authorized account transfers.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2912", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §313", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Expands operational-energy initiatives, requires transfer within 60 days after notice of savings, and defines operational energy cost savings." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2912: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Apply separate rules for installation savings and operational-energy savings.", "Use installation savings in the statutory half-for-energy/half-for-local-housing-minor-construction-or-MWR allocation; credit utility incentives as directed.", "Under FY2026 §313, the Secretary shall transfer notified qualifying amounts within 60 days; operational-energy initiatives must advance resilience and fuel efficiency and may support the listed mission, training, or savings-incentive uses." ], "limits": [ "Savings-based availability is limited to the statutory period, purposes, and allocation rules.", "This does not authorize general profit retention or use of hypothetical savings." ], "funding": [ "The statute preserves qualifying appropriated amounts without an additional authorization or appropriation for the specified period; transferred amounts follow the receiving-account availability rule." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "FY2026 §313 amends §2912(c), (e), and (f): expanded operational-energy initiative uses and a mandatory 60-day transfer deadline after notice, not a discretionary transfer alone. Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Energy, environment and communities", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-43", "category": "Recycling receipts", "capability": "Sell recyclable materials and retain proceeds for authorized recycling and installation uses", "summary": "Operate qualifying military recycling programs and apply receipts to processing costs and restricted installation purposes; the Army may separately sell demilitarized conventional-munitions recyclables and reuse receipts for ammunition reclamation, recycling, and reuse.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2577", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap153.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §7690", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleB-partIV-chap773.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense and military-department Secretaries under §2577; Secretary of the Army under §7690", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense and military-department Secretaries under §2577; Secretary of the Army under §7690; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2577: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap153.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §7690: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleB-partIV-chap773.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use surplus-sale procedures for general recycling and competitive procedures for the distinct munitions program.", "Apply the prescribed account-crediting and eligible-use rules for each pathway." ], "limits": [ "General installation recycling balances above $10 million at fiscal-year end go to Treasury; further percentage and minor-construction limits govern eligible environmental/energy/safety uses.", "Army munitions proceeds are restricted to the designated ammunition-demilitarization account and specified recycling uses, available in the receipt fiscal year and three subsequent fiscal years." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-44", "category": "NAFI shared goods and services", "capability": "Exchange eligible goods and services through nonappropriated-fund instrumentalities", "summary": "DoD instrumentalities supporting exchanges or morale, welfare, and recreation may contract or otherwise agree with DoD elements or other federal entities to provide or obtain beneficial goods, services, or installation dining services.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2492", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap147.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "DoD agency or instrumentality supporting the exchange or MWR system", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "DoD agency or instrumentality supporting the exchange or MWR system; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2492: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap147.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Tie the arrangement to efficient management or operation of the exchange/MWR system or eligible dining facilities." ], "limits": [ "Not general authority for unrelated NAFI commercial activity or governmentwide unrestricted transfers.", "Applicable fund-source and appropriated/nonappropriated-fund rules remain relevant." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Enterprise resources and shared execution", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-45", "category": "Reserve-component facility partnerships", "capability": "Co-fund state reserve facilities and exchange non-excess reserve property", "summary": "Acquire, improve, and equip authorized reserve-component facilities; contribute to eligible state projects; and exchange non-excess reserve facilities for needed completed replacement facilities.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §18233", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleE-partV-chap1803.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §18236", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleE-partV-chap1803.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §18240", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleE-partV-chap1803.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; Secretary of a military department when authorized for exchanges", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; Secretary of a military department when authorized for exchanges; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §18233: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleE-partV-chap1803.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §18236: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleE-partV-chap1803.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §18240: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleE-partV-chap1803.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Apply chapter 1803 project authorizations, contribution terms, and limitations, including the specified 75-percent total-cost rule for qualifying armory/readiness-center contributions.", "For exchanges, consult other reserve components, ensure replacement readiness and compliance, use competition to the maximum practicable extent, and give the required 21-day notice." ], "limits": [ "Replacement exchange value must be at least the government facility’s fair market value; neither party may pay cash to equalize unequal values.", "States may permit other use and retain related maintenance receipts only without interference with federal military use and subject to the agreement." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Property, construction and housing", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-46", "category": "Bioindustrial facility awards", "capability": "Co-fund domestic bioindustrial commercialization facilities", "summary": "Create a competitive award program for establishing, upgrading, and retooling domestic facilities producing critical biomanufactured products, including related business or technical planning.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §243 (10 U.S.C. §4841 note)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Complete enacted operative program text reviewed." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, §243 (10 U.S.C. §4841 note): statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "If established, select recipients competitively against statutory supply-chain, warfighter, flexibility, location, and related criteria.", "Apply recipient reporting and congressional oversight requirements." ], "limits": [ "Discretionary program-establishment authority within one year of enactment does not establish that the program or an application window currently exists.", "The section ordinarily terminates ten years after enactment; a later date requires the specified presidential determination and congressional transmittal." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Enacted December 18, 2025; the ordinary ten-year sunset is December 18, 2035, subject to the express presidential-extension process. Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-47", "category": "Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network", "capability": "Arrange rapid commercial-to-defense manufacturing conversion", "summary": "Establish the Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network, enter conversion agreements with participating manufacturers, and fund eligible expedited qualification/testing and nonrecurring engineering for conversion of traditional specifications to advanced manufacturing.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §1841 (10 U.S.C. §4811 note)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Complete enacted network and award provisions reviewed." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, §1841 (10 U.S.C. §4811 note): statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Follow the statutory program-establishment plan and staged deadlines; each participant enters a conversion agreement.", "Awards are subject to appropriations and support only the enumerated qualification/testing or engineering costs." ], "limits": [ "Participant award funds may not support planning, design, or construction of a new advanced-manufacturing facility; certifications are required.", "Activation and conversion occur under the statutory notice/agreement terms, not as an independent peacetime commandeering authority.", "Statutory establishment milestones are not proof the network or current award intake is operational." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-48", "category": "Commercial cargo and passenger support", "capability": "Transport eligible civilian cargo and passengers and arrange cargo insurance", "summary": "Provide paid transportation on available DoD vessels, vehicles, and aircraft when commercial capacity is unavailable; support qualifying contingency/disaster movements without charge on a noninterference basis; arrange commercial cargo-insurance products.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2649", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap157.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed" ], "resource_owner": [ "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; any delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified" ], "partners": [ "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2649: statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap157.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Apply available-space and commercial-unavailability conditions to ordinary paid transport.", "Apply the contingency/disaster facilitation determination for no-charge transport; commercial insurers must collect premiums, handle claims, and provide the specified waivers and hold-harmless terms." ], "limits": [ "Ordinary rates may not be below comparable commercial rates; emergency, disaster, and humanitarian charges instead may not exceed DoD cost.", "Ordinary receipts go to Treasury; only the specified emergency/disaster/humanitarian receipts may be credited back to the incurring account.", "DoD does not become the cargo insurer under the commercial-insurance provision." ], "funding": [ "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance." ], "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.", "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.", "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.", "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.", "family": "Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-49", "category": "Irregular-warfare partner support", "capability": "Support partners facilitating authorized special-operations irregular warfare", "summary": "Provide funding or other support to foreign forces, groups, or individuals supporting ongoing, authorized irregular-warfare operations by U.S. special operations forces.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 127d", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127d.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense, with concurrence of the relevant Chief of Mission", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "USSOCOM or geographic command sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense, with concurrence of the relevant Chief of Mission" ], "executor": [ "Authorized special-operations support and financial offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Chief of Mission", "Department of State" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 127d statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127d.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Support must facilitate ongoing and authorized U.S. SOF irregular warfare; follow prescribed vetting, legal-review, notification and reporting procedures.", "Secretary funding authority is nondelegable; 15-day advance notice applies to initiation and changes meeting the lower of $500,000 or 10% funding threshold." ], "limits": [ "Annual ceiling $20 million from DoD operation-and-maintenance funds.", "Not authority to conduct covert action, introduce forces into hostilities, or undertake otherwise unauthorized military operations.", "Statutory irregular warfare means activities not involving armed conflict; support cannot violate the laws of armed conflict." ], "funding": [ "Annual DoD operation-and-maintenance amounts; authority alone supplies no appropriation." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification. OLRC indexed §127d text dated September 15, 2026 corroborates the operative authority.", "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-50", "category": "Confidential operational support", "capability": "Fund confidential operational preparation and nonconventional recovery support", "summary": "Use Defense-wide O&M for confidential operational preparation or nonconventional assisted recovery, including limited partner equipment, supplies, training, transport, logistical support or funding.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 127f", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127f.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Special-operations mission sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense" ], "executor": [ "Authorized special-operations financial office (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Chief of Mission", "ASD(SO/LIC)" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 127f statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127f.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Secretary determination and prescribed legal-review, coordination and oversight procedures; Chief of Mission concurrence for nonconventional recovery spending." ], "limits": [ "Up to $40 million annually; expenditures over $250,000 cannot be delegated.", "Expressly excludes intelligence, counterintelligence and intelligence-related activities; quarterly briefings and expenditure reporting apply." ], "funding": [ "Operation and maintenance, Defense-wide; no new appropriation or authorization to conduct an otherwise unlawful operation." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification. OLRC indexed §127f text dated September 16, 2026 corroborates scope and ceiling.", "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-51", "category": "Defense rewards", "capability": "Pay rewards for qualifying counterterrorism information or force-protection assistance", "summary": "Pay money or provide payment-in-kind for information or nonlethal assistance benefiting covered overseas counterterrorism operations or U.S./allied force protection.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 127b", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127b.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense or narrowly authorized delegate", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Combatant-command force-protection sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense or narrowly authorized delegate" ], "executor": [ "Authorized rewards-program and financial officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Department of State", "Department of Justice" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 127b statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127b.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Consult State and Justice through required policies; State consultation for rewards above $2 million.", "Follow statutory delegation ceilings and country-designation/annual reporting." ], "limits": [ "Maximum $5 million per reward; combatant-command delegation normally limited to $1 million, with narrower redelegation rules.", "U.S. citizens, U.S. officers/employees and employees of U.S. contractors are ineligible." ], "funding": [ "Identify lawfully available program funds; section does not create unlimited reward funding." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-52", "category": "Overseas force-protection purchases", "capability": "Purchase weapons overseas to protect deployed U.S. forces", "summary": "Buy weapons from foreign persons, governments, international organizations or other entities in a country where U.S. armed forces are engaged in ongoing military operations, for force protection.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 127c", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127c.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Deployed command sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense" ], "executor": [ "Authorized contracting and force-protection offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 127c statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127c.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Ongoing U.S. military operations in the country and a force-protection purpose; semiannual congressional reporting when used." ], "limits": [ "Aggregate annual spending ceiling $15 million.", "Not a general weapons-buyback or procurement authority outside the statutory location and purpose." ], "funding": [ "Lawfully available defense funds; annual ceiling is not an appropriation." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-53", "category": "Emergency expenditure authority", "capability": "Pay narrowly authorized emergency and extraordinary expenses", "summary": "Approve emergency or extraordinary expenses that cannot be anticipated or classified, including confidential certification of amounts where the appropriation permits.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 127", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense, DoD Inspector General, or military-department Secretary within the statutory scope", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Component emergency requirement owner (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense, DoD Inspector General, or military-department Secretary within the statutory scope" ], "executor": [ "Authorized financial and approving officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 127 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use only appropriations made for the purpose and follow congressional notices, waiting periods and annual reporting." ], "limits": [ "Ordinary expenditures above $500,000 trigger advance notice; more than $1 million ordinarily requires 15 days, otherwise 5 days.", "Military Intelligence Program confidential intelligence expenses use §429a instead; emergency notification exceptions require statutory findings.", "For non-MIP intelligence/counterintelligence expenditures under §127, amounts over $100,000 require defense and intelligence committee notice and 15 days; extraordinary national-security waiver requires written notice and justification within 48 hours." ], "funding": [ "Purpose-specific available appropriations; not open-ended authority to override funding limits." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Enterprise resources and shared execution", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-54", "category": "Unbudgeted-operation financing", "capability": "Reimburse accounts for qualifying unbudgeted operations", "summary": "Transfer available DoD funds to reimburse incremental costs of qualifying unbudgeted deployments, humanitarian/disaster relief or law-enforcement support, with prescribed working-capital reimbursement treatment.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 127a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127a.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Component operational comptroller (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense" ], "executor": [ "Authorized DoD budget and disbursing officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 127a statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127a.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Apply statutory operation-cost thresholds: ordinarily over $50 million, or covered cumulative operations over $100 million; operations at or below $10 million excluded from cumulative test.", "Track attributable incremental costs separately." ], "limits": [ "Transfer ceiling $200 million annually; cannot draw protected O&M operating-forces or mobilization accounts.", "No authority to conduct military operations or revive activities Congress denied; cannot restore working-capital balances by raising rates.", "Under §127a(c)(4), other transfer authority cannot be used for the same incremental-expense reimbursement while §127a transfer authority remains available for that purpose." ], "funding": [ "Available DoD appropriations subject to source exclusions; distinct from annual general transfer authority." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Enterprise resources and shared execution", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-55", "category": "Antiterrorism readiness funding", "capability": "Fund emergency antiterrorism physical-security improvements", "summary": "Use the Combating Terrorism Readiness Initiatives Fund for physical-security equipment, site improvements and, in extraordinary circumstances, security services, assessments and planning.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 166b", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap6-sec166b.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Combatant-command physical-security sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff" ], "executor": [ "Authorized command procurement and financial offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 166b statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap6-sec166b.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Combatant-command request or designated officer for areas outside a commander’s responsibility; prioritize unforeseen emergency or emergent high-priority needs." ], "limits": [ "Support initiation and sustainment in the initiating fiscal year and one additional fiscal year only.", "No funding for activities denied authorization by Congress; distinct from §166a initiative funding." ], "funding": [ "Funds actually made available to the Combating Terrorism Readiness Initiatives Fund." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Enterprise resources and shared execution", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-56", "category": "Missing-personnel recovery partnerships", "capability": "Partner, grant and procure to account for missing personnel", "summary": "Use recovery-focused public-private partnerships, grants, cooperative agreements, property support and gifts; separately assist and procure goods/services from foreign nations for missing-U.S.-personnel accounting.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 1501a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap76-sec1501a.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 408", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap20-sec408.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1041", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025; operative amendment read." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; Secretary of State concurrence or approval where specified", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Missing-personnel accounting mission sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; Secretary of State concurrence or approval where specified" ], "executor": [ "Designated Defense Agency agreements, grants and recovery offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Department of State" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 1501a statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap76-sec1501a.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 408 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap20-sec408.htm" }, { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1041 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Private assistance must support the designated missing-personnel Defense Agency; foreign partnerships need State concurrence.", "§408 foreign assistance needs specific State approval; annual reporting and terrorism-related recipient prohibitions apply." ], "limits": [ "§408 annual assistance ceiling is $15 million, subject to notified waiver—not the obsolete $5 million baseline.", "§1501a gifts cannot compromise integrity or its appearance; sole-source grants/agreements and no-cost property support remain mission-limited." ], "funding": [ "Available mission funds; gifts of money go to the DoD General Gift Fund under §1501a." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification. P.L. 119-60 §1041 and current OLRC §408 amendment notes expressly verified: adds foreign procurement and raises ceiling to $15 million.", "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-57", "category": "Geospatial partner support", "capability": "Provide foreign partners with imagery and geospatial support", "summary": "NGA may use appropriated or eligible nonappropriated funds to provide foreign imagery/geospatial support and conduct accommodation procurements for foreign countries.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 443", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap22-subchapI-sec443.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "NGA foreign-partner requirement sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency" ], "executor": [ "NGA acquisition and financial offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Director of National Intelligence" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 443 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap22-subchapI-sec443.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "DNI coordination for imagery intelligence, intelligence products, or support to a foreign intelligence/security service." ], "limits": [ "Nonappropriated funds cannot support a purpose Congress denied or acquire items/services principally benefiting the United States.", "Sale proceeds under this provision purchase similar replacement items; this is distinct from §453 foreign-licensing receipt authority.", "All security, disclosure and partner-release restrictions still apply." ], "funding": [ "Available NGA appropriations; eligible nonappropriated funds subject to §443(b)." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Intelligence, counterintelligence and security", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-58", "category": "Information-assurance service charges", "capability": "Recover NSA information-assurance certification costs", "summary": "Charge for evaluating, certifying or validating information-assurance products under NIAP or its successor, and credit collections back to the accounts bearing program costs.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 3618", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap47-sec3618.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Director of the National Security Agency", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "NSA information-assurance program sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Director of the National Security Agency" ], "executor": [ "NSA financial and certification officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "50 U.S.C. § 3618 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap47-sec3618.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Establish fees through public rulemaking under OMB Circular A-25; allow reimbursement or agreed advance payment and adjustment." ], "limits": [ "Charges cannot exceed direct program costs.", "Receipts offset those direct costs only; not a general commercial-product tax or unrestricted revenue source." ], "funding": [ "Collected fees reimburse or offset the relevant program accounts under the express receipt-crediting authority." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Intelligence, counterintelligence and security", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-59", "category": "NATO command support", "capability": "Support NATO command facilities and specialized operating needs", "summary": "Use DoD facilities/equipment and available funds for the U.S.-based NATO Joint Force Command; separately fund enumerated NATO Allied Special Operations Forces Command cooperation and interoperability purposes.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2350n", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap138-subchapII-sec2350n.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2350r", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap138-subchapII-sec2350r.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "NATO support mission sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense" ], "executor": [ "Authorized Service support and financial offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Relevant NATO command" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350n statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap138-subchapII-sec2350n.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350r statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap138-subchapII-sec2350r.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Match spending to the particular command and its statutory mission." ], "limits": [ "§2350r uses up to $55 million annually from Army O&M amounts made available for NATO operations.", "These sections do not authorize arbitrary grants to NATO members or unrestricted commercial investments." ], "funding": [ "Available DoD funds for §2350n; specified Army O&M/NATO amounts for §2350r." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "International business, logistics and investment", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-60", "category": "NATO cooperative-program finance", "capability": "Waive specified NATO AWACS costs and assume limited program liabilities", "summary": "For defined NATO AWACS memoranda and follow-on support agreements, waive listed support costs or administrative surcharges and assume specifically enumerated contingent liabilities.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2350e", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap138-subchapII-sec2350e.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "NATO AWACS program sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense" ], "executor": [ "Authorized AWACS contracting and finance offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "NATO program partners" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2350e statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap138-subchapII-sec2350e.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Use must implement one of the defined AWACS arrangements; identify the eligible support service and liability category." ], "limits": [ "Contract authority is effective only to the extent or amount provided in appropriation Acts.", "Contingent liabilities are limited to listed contracting-officer gross-negligence losses, U.S. taxes/charges and U.S. unfunded termination share—not general indemnification.", "The listed-function reimbursement waiver in § 2350e(a)(1) excludes work performed by Air Force AWACS program-office personnel." ], "funding": [ "Available AWACS program appropriations and the agreement’s financial terms." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "International business, logistics and investment", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-61", "category": "Foreign military construction sales", "capability": "Sell military design and construction services to foreign customers", "summary": "Sell design and construction services to eligible foreign countries or international organizations, or contract for them against a dependable foreign undertaking to fund all contract and cancellation costs.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2769", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapII-A-sec2769.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2752", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapI-sec2752.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2753", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapI-sec2753.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "President under the AECA; authorized DoD execution under State supervision", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Foreign partner and implementing-agency construction sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "President under the AECA; authorized DoD execution under State supervision" ], "executor": [ "Authorized DoD construction contracting office (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Department of State", "DSCA" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2769 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapII-A-sec2769.htm" }, { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2752 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapI-sec2752.htm" }, { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2753 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapI-sec2753.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Eligible customer; full-cost U.S.-dollar payment in advance for government-performed services.", "Contracted services require dependable undertaking and timely funds before payments or termination costs come due." ], "limits": [ "No U.S. loss or underfunded foreign construction subsidy authorized; AECA eligibility and oversight apply." ], "funding": [ "Foreign customer advance payments or dependable undertaking under §2769." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "International business, logistics and investment", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-62", "category": "Support for direct commercial defense exports", "capability": "Sell government-only components to U.S. firms for eligible exports", "summary": "Sell, procure or manufacture defense articles for U.S. companies to incorporate into end items for friendly foreign armed forces, and provide associated U.S.-performed defense services.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2770", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapII-B-sec2770.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2778", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapIII-sec2778.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "President under the AECA; authorized implementing official", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "DoD implementing agency with requesting U.S. company (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "President under the AECA; authorized implementing official" ], "executor": [ "Authorized Service sales and contracting office (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Department of State", "Export-control officials" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2770 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapII-B-sec2770.htm" }, { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2778 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapIII-sec2778.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Cash negotiated contract; export license/approval; end item for friendly-country or international-organization armed forces.", "Articles would be government-furnished for a comparable U.S. procurement and are government-only or commercially unavailable in time." ], "limits": [ "Minimum replacement/contract/manufacturing cost as applicable; services at actual cost and performed only in the United States.", "Not an unrestricted sale to domestic businesses or a substitute for export approval." ], "funding": [ "Customer reimbursement credits the selling agency’s current applicable account." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "International business, logistics and investment", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-63", "category": "Foreign Assistance Act military assistance", "capability": "Furnish grant or loan military assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act", "summary": "Acquire and furnish defense articles/services by loan or grant, assign noncombatant DoD personnel, or transfer military-assistance funds to eligible recipients’ FMS payment accounts.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2311", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partII-sec2311.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2314", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partII-sec2314.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2382", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapIII-partII-sec2382.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2383", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapIII-partII-sec2383.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "President; State foreign-policy supervision; Secretary of Defense for assigned military-assistance execution", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "State and DoD military-assistance sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "President; State foreign-policy supervision; Secretary of Defense for assigned military-assistance execution" ], "executor": [ "Authorized DoD implementing agency (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Department of State", "DSCA" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2311 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partII-sec2311.htm" }, { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2314 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partII-sec2314.htm" }, { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2382 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapIII-partII-sec2382.htm" }, { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2383 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapIII-partII-sec2383.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Eligible friendly country/organization; presidential security/world-peace finding and applicable end-use, security and retransfers assurances." ], "limits": [ "Article loans require a bona fide reason beyond funding shortage, expected return, fixed term no more than five years and damage/loss reimbursement terms.", "Separate from excess-defense-article and emergency drawdown authorities; not autonomous DoD foreign aid." ], "funding": [ "Applicable military-assistance funds and statutory reimbursements; no present appropriation certified." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-64", "category": "Foreign military education and exchanges", "capability": "Provide military education and reciprocal training for foreign personnel", "summary": "Furnish eligible foreign military/civilian education under IMET, or exchange comparable training and support under distinct reciprocal education and AECA arrangements.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2347", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partV-sec2347.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2347c", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partV-sec2347c.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2347e", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partV-sec2347e.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2347f", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partV-sec2347f.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2770a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapII-C-sec2770a.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2383", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapIII-partII-sec2383.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "President; military-department Secretary for AECA training delivery", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "State/DoD education and exchange sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "President; military-department Secretary for AECA training delivery" ], "executor": [ "Authorized military education and training office (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Department of State", "DSCA" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2347 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partV-sec2347.htm" }, { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2347c statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partV-sec2347c.htm" }, { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2347e statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partV-sec2347e.htm" }, { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2347f statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapII-partV-sec2347f.htm" }, { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2770a statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapII-C-sec2770a.htm" }, { "title": "22 U.S.C. § 2383 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapIII-partII-sec2383.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "IMET participants and education must fit statutory purposes; State-Defense consultation and applicable country prohibitions apply.", "§2347c exchanges are one-for-one annually; §2770a requires comparable reciprocal support within a reasonable period no longer than one year." ], "limits": [ "Failure to furnish comparable §2770a support requires full-cost reimbursement.", "Neither mechanism converts §321 U.S.-force exercise training into unrestricted partner capacity grants." ], "funding": [ "Appropriated IMET amounts or the specific reciprocal mechanism’s accounts; verify annual restrictions and any required waivers." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-65", "category": "Institution-specific foreign education", "capability": "Operate specialized allied education programs and support their students", "summary": "Operate named Western Hemisphere, aviation and naval-small-craft programs and service-academy foreign engagements, using each statute’s specific student support, reimbursement and facility-funding rules.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 343", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec343.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 347", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec347.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 348", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec348.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 349", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec349.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 350", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec350.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 352", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec352.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1205", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025; operative amendment read." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense and the specified military-department Secretaries", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Service international education sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense and the specified military-department Secretaries" ], "executor": [ "Named academy or school financial and education office (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Department of State" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 343 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec343.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 347 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec347.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 348 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec348.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 349 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec349.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 350 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec350.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 352 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec352.htm" }, { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1205 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Apply school-specific national eligibility, State consultation/concurrence, foreign-assistance prohibitions and human-rights training requirements.", "§347 academy attendance normally requires reimbursement unless waived; foreign cadets capped at 80 per academy; exchanges have separate one-for-one limits.", "§343 also permits foreign gifts for Institute costs/operations under its specific terms and crediting provisions." ], "limits": [ "§352 now requires school operation; tuition cannot include fixed operation/maintenance costs.", "This grouping maps distinct statutory routes, not a general foreign-scholarship authority." ], "funding": [ "Account-specific O&M, procurement and military-construction authority; aviation student benefits only as allowed by §§348/350." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification. P.L. 119-60 §1205 read: mandatory NAVSCIATTS operation and exclusion of fixed O&M costs from tuition.", "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-66", "category": "Multilateral partner contributions", "capability": "Accept foreign contributions for multilateral security cooperation", "summary": "Accept, manage and expend foreign-government money, defense articles or defense services for mutually agreed activities under specified security-cooperation authorities.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 301 note; Pub. L. 118-159, § 1208", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Full enacted note read in official 2024 Code chapter 16; distinct from §301 definitions." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "DoD security-cooperation sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence" ], "executor": [ "Authorized security-cooperation and financial officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Department of State" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 301 note; Pub. L. 118-159, § 1208 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Qualifying chapter 16, Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative or P.L. 114-92 §1250 activity; mutually agreed purpose and country subaccounts.", "Notify Congress within 48 hours of receipt; transmit covered instruments within 30 days; annual reports through 2030." ], "limits": [ "Authority terminates December 31, 2029; contributed funds available for the following two fiscal years.", "No bypass of underlying prohibitions, notifications, AECA or purposes Congress denied funding." ], "funding": [ "Foreign contributions in designated account and separate country subaccounts; articles enter U.S. inventory." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification. Full §1208 note and December 31, 2029 termination read; current OLRC §301 index corroborates note.", "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-67", "category": "Public-safety equipment transfers", "capability": "Transfer excess or sell surplus equipment to eligible public-safety agencies", "summary": "Transfer excess DoD personal property for eligible law enforcement or firefighting/emergency-medical use, or sell specified surplus equipment to state/local public-safety agencies at fair market value.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2576", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap153-sec2576.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2576a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap153-sec2576a.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2576b", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap153-sec2576b.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "State/local recipient with DoD disposal office (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense" ], "executor": [ "Authorized DoD property-disposal official (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Justice/ONDCP/DHS consultation for §2576a" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2576 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap153-sec2576.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2576a statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap153-sec2576a.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2576b statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap153-sec2576b.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Excess-transfer routes use existing stocks, as-is/where-is acceptance and recipient payment of post-transfer costs; no procurement funds to effect the transfer.", "§2576a controlled property requires annual local-authority-backed protocols/training certification and accountability." ], "limits": [ "§2576a bars listed items including weaponized drones and weaponized tracked combat vehicles; statutory recipient and use restrictions remain.", "§2576 fair-market-value surplus sales differ from potentially no-charge excess transfers; neither is §281 new-equipment procurement." ], "funding": [ "Recipient reimbursement of applicable costs; distinct consideration requirements by route." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Domestic and interagency support", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-68", "category": "Museum and education partnerships", "capability": "Partner with nonprofits for military museums and education", "summary": "Enter nonprofit cooperative agreements supporting military museum or educational-institution programs; separately loan, gift or exchange qualifying historical/obsolete material with eligible recipients.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2615", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2615.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2572", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap153-sec2572.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1051", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025; operative amendment read." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary concerned", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Military museum or education sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Secretary concerned" ], "executor": [ "Authorized agreements and historical-property offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2615 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2615.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2572 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap153-sec2572.htm" }, { "title": "P.L. 119-60 §1051 covered WWII-era aircraft restrictions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "§2615 agreements must meet the §6305 cooperative-agreement instrument definition and be with nonprofit entities.", "§2572 property must fit eligible historical/obsolete categories and recipients, under prescribed controls." ], "limits": [ "Not authority for unrestricted grants to for-profit partners; loan/gift/exchange conditions remain distinct.", "Applicable later disposition restrictions must be checked, including FY26 restrictions for covered WWII-era aircraft." ], "funding": [ "Available program funds; exchange consideration or recipient costs under the selected property route." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Enterprise resources and shared execution", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-69", "category": "Government debt recovery", "capability": "Collect, compromise or offset debts owed to the Government", "summary": "Collect agency debts, compromise or end eligible collection actions, use administrative offset after required process, and contract for debt-collection services while retaining sovereign decisions.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "31 U.S.C. § 3711", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3711.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "31 U.S.C. § 3716", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3716.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "31 U.S.C. § 3718", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3718.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "Head of the agency; Treasury/Justice roles as specified", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Component debt-management office (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Head of the agency; Treasury/Justice roles as specified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized collection/disbursing and contracting officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Treasury", "Department of Justice" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "31 U.S.C. § 3711 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3711.htm" }, { "title": "31 U.S.C. § 3716 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3716.htm" }, { "title": "31 U.S.C. § 3718 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3718.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Debt validation and notice, records access, review and repayment opportunity precede administrative offset; prescribed standards and regulations apply.", "Agency retains compromise, dispute-resolution and litigation-referral decisions when using collectors." ], "limits": [ "Ordinary §3711 compromise authority capped at $100,000 excluding interest or higher amount prescribed by Attorney General; fraud/false claims and antitrust claims excluded.", "Contractual recovery of assets held by state government or financial institution requires Treasury-approved procedures; statutory exemptions and protected payments remain." ], "funding": [ "Available administrative funds and any expressly allowed collection-fee arrangement; no unrestricted retention of all recovered money." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Enterprise resources and shared execution", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-70", "category": "Statutory nonprofit support", "capability": "Support named relief and overseas service organizations", "summary": "Provide prescribed transport, space, communications and other support to the Red Cross, United Seamen’s Service or qualified overseas scouting organizations within each statute’s narrow conditions.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2602", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2602.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2604", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2604.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2606", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2606.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "authority_holder": "President and Secretary of Defense or Secretary concerned as specified", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Component service-support sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "President and Secretary of Defense or Secretary concerned as specified" ], "executor": [ "Authorized logistics and financial offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "Eligible named organization" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2602 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2602.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2604 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2604.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2606 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2606.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Required presidential necessity determination and implementing regulations; support limited to named organizations and authorized missions." ], "limits": [ "Scouting assistance under §2606 is overseas; employee-pay reimbursement must use nonappropriated funds.", "Meal/quarter charges and no-charge services differ by route; no general nonprofit subsidy authority." ], "funding": [ "Authorized transport/support resources; nonappropriated funds only where the statute so requires." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.", "family": "Enterprise resources and shared execution", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-71", "category": "Conditional intelligence acquisition authority", "capability": "Use DNI-approved exceptional acquisition powers for defense intelligence", "summary": "A defense intelligence element may exercise specified CIA Act acquisition powers for an acquisition more than half funded by the National Intelligence Program only after an individualized or class-based DNI authorization.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 3024(m)(4)-(5)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap44-subchapI-sec3024.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "2024 subsection (n) renumbered (m) by P.L. 119-60 §6402; read together with enacted amendments." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 6402", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025; operative amendment read." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 6501", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025; operative amendment read." } ], "authority_holder": "Director of National Intelligence and head of the requesting defense intelligence element", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Defense intelligence element acquisition sponsor (illustrative routing lead)" ], "resource_owner": [ "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified" ], "approver": [ "Director of National Intelligence and head of the requesting defense intelligence element" ], "executor": [ "Authorized element acquisition and financial officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)" ], "partners": [ "DNI", "DoD counsel" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "50 U.S.C. § 3024(m)(4)-(5) statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap44-subchapI-sec3024.htm" }, { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 6402 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm" }, { "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 6501 statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Element head personally requests authority with insufficiency/mission-need justification; DNI issues written authorization; requests follow DoD procedures.", "Notify congressional intelligence committees of each authorization or extension regardless of dollar size; notify OMB for acquisitions/classes exceeding $50 million annually. Keep requests/authorizations at least six years." ], "limits": [ "Class authorizations ordinarily no more than three years, or six with nondelegated DNI action; renewals require statutory process.", "No automatic inheritance of CIA powers; §3510(b) unvouchered-funds power is not granted by this bridge; applicable §3510(c) notice/guidance remains." ], "funding": [ "Acquisition more than50% National Intelligence Program-funded; current appropriation and separate source conditions required." ], "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.", "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.", "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.", "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification. P.L. 119-60 §§6402 and6501 verified. Current citation is §3024(m), not pre-FY26 §3024(n).", "family": "Intelligence, counterintelligence and security", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified." }, { "id": "USC-72", "family": "International business, logistics and investment", "category": "Commercial space and airlift", "capability": "Exchange space-awareness information and recover permitted service costs", "summary": "Provide space situational-awareness information to, and obtain data from, eligible nonfederal entities under agreements with security, redistribution and reimbursement conditions.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2274", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap135-sec2274.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Sponsoring defense component and mission customer; current assignment must be verified" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; transaction-specific delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified" ], "partners": [ "Participating eligible commercial entity; fiscal, security and legal reviewers" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2274 — statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap135-sec2274.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Since January 1, 2024, the Secretary must determine that the exchange or service is necessary to meet U.S. national-security interests.", "An agreement must restrict onward transfer and state any permitted charge and other required conditions." ], "limits": [ "Not an unrestricted commercial data-sharing authority; the necessity finding and disclosure terms control.", "State and local governments may not be charged under subsection (d)." ], "funding": [ "Permitted receipts may be credited to the original or appropriate currently available account and merge with its period of availability; no independent appropriation is created." ], "coordination_path": "Mission customer → responsible component program office → eligibility, fiscal and security review → authorized contracting or agreement official. This is an illustrative routing chain, not a verified delegation.", "availability": "Express statutory mechanism; current program implementation, open intake, funds and individual delegations were not verified in this statutory review.", "confidence": "High on the express mechanism in the reviewed official text; no claim of verified transaction readiness.", "currentness": "Reviewed October 5, 2026: official 2024 Code body and targeted enacted P.L. 119-60 text search. Selected OLRC September 2026 indexed text corroborates §§2274, 2276, 9513 and 9531. Later enactments and annual riders were not exhaustively reconciled.", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory coverage only: no current implementing program, application window, available balance or individual delegation verified.", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05" }, { "id": "USC-73", "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit", "category": "Commercial space and airlift", "capability": "Accept commercial contributions and provide space-launch infrastructure support", "summary": "Enter support agreements and accept voluntary contributions of money, services and equipment from eligible U.S.-organized commercial-space entities for defense space-transportation infrastructure.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2276", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap135-sec2276.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Sponsoring defense component and mission customer; current assignment must be verified" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; transaction-specific delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified" ], "partners": [ "Participating eligible commercial entity; fiscal, security and legal reviewers" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2276 — statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap135-sec2276.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Added commercial requirements must be fully nonfederally funded before agreement execution; the required best-interest, noninterference and competition findings apply.", "Contribution agreements must address ownership, use and disposition and prohibit recovering the contribution through another U.S. agreement." ], "limits": [ "Not general corporate investment authority: contributions and expenditures are limited to the statutory infrastructure objectives." ], "funding": [ "Cash contributions go to the Defense Cooperation Space Launch Account; obligation requires advance appropriations. Appropriated account money is available until expended." ], "coordination_path": "Mission customer → responsible component program office → eligibility, fiscal and security review → authorized contracting or agreement official. This is an illustrative routing chain, not a verified delegation.", "availability": "Express statutory mechanism; current program implementation, open intake, funds and individual delegations were not verified in this statutory review.", "confidence": "High on the express mechanism in the reviewed official text; no claim of verified transaction readiness.", "currentness": "Reviewed October 5, 2026: official 2024 Code body and targeted enacted P.L. 119-60 text search. Selected OLRC September 2026 indexed text corroborates §§2274, 2276, 9513 and 9531. Later enactments and annual riders were not exhaustively reconciled.", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory coverage only: no current implementing program, application window, available balance or individual delegation verified.", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05" }, { "id": "USC-74", "family": "Property, construction and housing", "category": "Commercial space and airlift", "capability": "Provide reimbursable launch supplies, construction and services through contracts or other transactions", "summary": "Use contracts or other transactions to furnish launch-related supplies, services, equipment and construction to eligible commercial entities at military installations.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2276a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap135-sec2276a.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator." }, { "citation": "P.L. 119-60 §1602", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Adds noise-mitigation coordination and redesignates definitions/transition provisions in 10 U.S.C. §2276a." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of the military department concerned", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Sponsoring defense component and mission customer; current assignment must be verified" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of the military department concerned; transaction-specific delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified" ], "partners": [ "Participating eligible commercial entity; fiscal, security and legal reviewers" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §2276a — statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap135-sec2276a.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "The entity must be U.S.-organized and intend to conduct launch activities at an installation under the Secretary’s jurisdiction; all direct costs must be reimbursed.", "Indirect-cost reimbursement may be negotiated under the statute; the Air Force must coordinate launch-noise studies and feasible mitigation with the commercial entity at Space Force launch sites (P.L. 119-60 §1602)." ], "limits": [ "Not a free grant or unrestricted construction authority; the specified launch-support purpose, agreement and cost rules control.", "The 2024–2026 transition limitation on indirect-cost recovery (30 percent of direct costs and $5 million annually in FY2024 constant dollars) is a dated branch, not a permanent FY2027 cap; review later-law treatment before charging." ], "funding": [ "Reimbursements credit the account that incurred the cost; confirm lawful initial funding and construction authority for the proposed work." ], "coordination_path": "Mission customer → responsible component program office → eligibility, fiscal and security review → authorized contracting or agreement official. This is an illustrative routing chain, not a verified delegation.", "availability": "Express statutory mechanism; current program implementation, open intake, funds and individual delegations were not verified in this statutory review.", "confidence": "High on the express mechanism in the reviewed official text; no claim of verified transaction readiness.", "currentness": "Reviewed October 5, 2026: official 2024 Code body and targeted enacted P.L. 119-60 text search. Selected OLRC September 2026 indexed text corroborates §§2274, 2276, 9513 and 9531. Later enactments and annual riders were not exhaustively reconciled.", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory coverage only: no current implementing program, application window, available balance or individual delegation verified.", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05" }, { "id": "USC-75", "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance", "category": "Commercial space and airlift", "capability": "Contract for additional commercial space capacity on an as-needed basis", "summary": "Use Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve contract provisions to secure extra space products or services and consider a contractor’s reserve commitment when allocating business.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9531", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap963-sec9531.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense (as expressly defined in §9531(d)(3))", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Sponsoring defense component and mission customer; current assignment must be verified" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense (as expressly defined in §9531(d)(3)); transaction-specific delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified" ], "partners": [ "Participating eligible commercial entity; fiscal, security and legal reviewers" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §9531 — statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap963-sec9531.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Participating contractors must meet the statutory U.S.-citizenship definition, including the entity-organization requirements.", "Each contract and participant must comply with applicable industrial-security measures and any additional measures established by the Secretary." ], "limits": [ "Not a general authority to lend, purchase equity or indemnify contractors; the provision authorizes procurement-contract reserve commitments." ], "funding": [ "Appropriate available procurement or other mission funding is required; a reserve commitment is not proof of an allocated budget." ], "coordination_path": "Mission customer → responsible component program office → eligibility, fiscal and security review → authorized contracting or agreement official. This is an illustrative routing chain, not a verified delegation.", "availability": "Express statutory mechanism; current program implementation, open intake, funds and individual delegations were not verified in this statutory review.", "confidence": "High on the express mechanism in the reviewed official text; no claim of verified transaction readiness.", "currentness": "Reviewed October 5, 2026: official 2024 Code body and targeted enacted P.L. 119-60 text search. Selected OLRC September 2026 indexed text corroborates §§2274, 2276, 9513 and 9531. Later enactments and annual riders were not exhaustively reconciled.", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory coverage only: no current implementing program, application window, available balance or individual delegation verified.", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05" }, { "id": "USC-76", "family": "Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships", "category": "Commercial space and airlift", "capability": "Incentivize reserve airlift commitments through rates and minimum-purchase contracts", "summary": "Set fair and reasonable CRAF airlift payment rates and use qualifying one-year minimum-purchase charter contracts to encourage commercial aircraft commitments.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9511", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9511.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9512", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9512.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9515", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9515.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Sponsoring defense component and mission customer; current assignment must be verified" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; transaction-specific delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified" ], "partners": [ "Participating eligible commercial entity; fiscal, security and legal reviewers" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §9511 — statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9511.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §9512 — statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9512.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §9515 — statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9515.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Minimum-purchase participants must satisfy §9515 performance, additional-capacity and host-support eligibility conditions.", "The aggregate minimum purchase must be based on forecast needs and stay within the statutory 80-percent historical-expenditure ceiling, with the permitted high-demand-year adjustment." ], "limits": [ "Not a general revenue guarantee for any airline; CRAF participation, allocation rules and reductions for unavailable services apply." ], "funding": [ "Military departments transfer required amounts to the transportation working-capital fund; unused minimum-purchase amounts are distributed under the fiscal-year rules. Available money and contract approval still require verification." ], "coordination_path": "Mission customer → responsible component program office → eligibility, fiscal and security review → authorized contracting or agreement official. This is an illustrative routing chain, not a verified delegation.", "availability": "Express statutory mechanism; current program implementation, open intake, funds and individual delegations were not verified in this statutory review.", "confidence": "High on the express mechanism in the reviewed official text; no claim of verified transaction readiness.", "currentness": "Reviewed October 5, 2026: official 2024 Code body and targeted enacted P.L. 119-60 text search. Selected OLRC September 2026 indexed text corroborates §§2274, 2276, 9513 and 9531. Later enactments and annual riders were not exhaustively reconciled.", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory coverage only: no current implementing program, application window, available balance or individual delegation verified.", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05" }, { "id": "USC-77", "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit", "category": "Commercial space and airlift", "capability": "Pay to incorporate defense features in committed commercial aircraft", "summary": "Contract with eligible U.S. citizens or manufacturers for defense features in civil aircraft committed to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, including permitted direct payment to the modification provider.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9511", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9511.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9513", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9513.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Sponsoring defense component and mission customer; current assignment must be verified" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; transaction-specific delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified" ], "partners": [ "Participating eligible commercial entity; fiscal, security and legal reviewers" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §9511 — statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9511.htm" }, { "title": "10 U.S.C. §9513 — statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9513.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "Aircraft must be committed to CRAF and available for DoD use on activation notwithstanding competing commitments, subject to the Secretary’s release.", "Contracts must specify repayment percentages for loss, unusability, feature removal, disqualifying transfer or specified registration termination." ], "limits": [ "Not an unrestricted aircraft subsidy; defense features, CRAF service and recapture terms are mandatory.", "The legacy chapter 137 cross-reference must be read with the acquisition recodification and §3016, not treated as a repeal of this power." ], "funding": [ "Contracts are permitted only to the extent funds are otherwise available for obligation; operation is compensated at fair and reasonable rates." ], "coordination_path": "Mission customer → responsible component program office → eligibility, fiscal and security review → authorized contracting or agreement official. This is an illustrative routing chain, not a verified delegation.", "availability": "Express statutory mechanism; current program implementation, open intake, funds and individual delegations were not verified in this statutory review.", "confidence": "High on the express mechanism in the reviewed official text; no claim of verified transaction readiness.", "currentness": "Reviewed October 5, 2026: official 2024 Code body and targeted enacted P.L. 119-60 text search. Selected OLRC September 2026 indexed text corroborates §§2274, 2276, 9513 and 9531. Later enactments and annual riders were not exhaustively reconciled.", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory coverage only: no current implementing program, application window, available balance or individual delegation verified.", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05" }, { "id": "USC-78", "family": "Enterprise resources and shared execution", "category": "Commercial space and airlift", "capability": "Indemnify Transportation for covered defense-related aviation losses", "summary": "Pay and transfer available operation-and-maintenance funds to indemnify the Secretary of Transportation for qualifying defense-related aviation insurance losses.", "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9514", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9514.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator." } ], "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; Secretary of Transportation administers the insurance", "actor_chain": { "planner": [ "Sponsoring defense component and mission customer; current assignment must be verified" ], "resource_owner": [ "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller" ], "approver": [ "Secretary of Defense; Secretary of Transportation administers the insurance; transaction-specific delegation must be verified" ], "executor": [ "Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified" ], "partners": [ "Participating eligible commercial entity; fiscal, security and legal reviewers" ] }, "actor_sources": [ { "title": "10 U.S.C. §9514 — statutory holder and conditions", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partIV-chap961-sec9514.htm" } ], "requirements": [ "The insurance must be the specified no-premium defense-requested coverage under 49 U.S.C. chapter 443, supported by the interdepartmental indemnity agreement.", "Statutory payment deadlines apply; incidents exceeding or expected to exceed $10 million trigger congressional notice within 30 days of the loss." ], "limits": [ "Not standalone general commercial insurance authority or a guarantee that a particular loss is covered.", "This specific transfer power has its own exemptions from other transfer caps and prior-notification rules; do not generalize them to unrelated transfers." ], "funding": [ "Payment may use any available DoD operation-and-maintenance funds; the specific additional transfer authority does not create funds beyond available appropriations." ], "coordination_path": "Mission customer → responsible component program office → eligibility, fiscal and security review → authorized contracting or agreement official. This is an illustrative routing chain, not a verified delegation.", "availability": "Express statutory mechanism; current program implementation, open intake, funds and individual delegations were not verified in this statutory review.", "confidence": "High on the express mechanism in the reviewed official text; no claim of verified transaction readiness.", "currentness": "Reviewed October 5, 2026: official 2024 Code body and targeted enacted P.L. 119-60 text search. Selected OLRC September 2026 indexed text corroborates §§2274, 2276, 9513 and 9531. Later enactments and annual riders were not exhaustively reconciled.", "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05", "implementation_caution": "Statutory coverage only: no current implementing program, application window, available balance or individual delegation verified.", "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05" } ], "record_updates": [ { "record_id": "ACQ-01", "note": "Add service-specific research powers alongside the general §4001 authority; no newly verified operating project or intake.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §8752", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleC-partIV-chap873-sec8752.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §8931", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleC-partIV-chap893-sec8931.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "requirements": [ "The Navy-specific §8752 route concerns research services and materials, reports, tests, models, or apparatus; bond waiver is discretionary and cost-plus-a-percentage-of-cost contracting is prohibited.", "Section 8931 permits oceanographic partnerships and accepting, planning, and executing projects through appropriate grant, contract, agreement, or other vehicles for its specified national goals." ], "limits": [ "The historical phrase without advertising in §8752 must not be represented as a blanket waiver of modern competition requirements." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-01", "note": "P.L. 119-60 §244(a)(2)(B)(iv) expressly supplies transaction routes for the program; no establishment decision, appropriation, or award verified.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §244", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted FY2026 NDAA text; not a proposal." } ], "requirements": [ "The Secretary may establish the defense biotechnology supply-chain program, coordinating with military departments and relevant Defense Agencies; covered activity must develop, scale in, or transition from military-department laboratories biotechnology capabilities relevant to DoD supply-chain resilience.", "If established, the program must meet §244(a)(3) priorities, consultation, and public-private partnership conditions; its laboratory mechanisms may use contracts, cooperative agreements, grants, or OTs." ], "limits": [ "The §244 route is program- and purpose-specific; it is not an unconstrained biotechnology fund.", "Authority terminates ten years after December 18, 2025 unless the President makes the required necessity determination and gives notice before termination." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-02", "note": "P.L. 119-60 §244(a)(2)(B)(iv) expressly supplies transaction routes for the program; no establishment decision, appropriation, or award verified.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §244", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted FY2026 NDAA text; not a proposal." } ], "requirements": [ "The Secretary may establish the defense biotechnology supply-chain program, coordinating with military departments and relevant Defense Agencies; covered activity must develop, scale in, or transition from military-department laboratories biotechnology capabilities relevant to DoD supply-chain resilience.", "If established, the program must meet §244(a)(3) priorities, consultation, and public-private partnership conditions; its laboratory mechanisms may use contracts, cooperative agreements, grants, or OTs." ], "limits": [ "The §244 route is program- and purpose-specific; it is not an unconstrained biotechnology fund.", "Authority terminates ten years after December 18, 2025 unless the President makes the required necessity determination and gives notice before termination." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-03", "note": "P.L. 119-60 §244(a)(2)(B)(iv) expressly supplies transaction routes for the program; no establishment decision, appropriation, or award verified.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §244", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted FY2026 NDAA text; not a proposal." } ], "requirements": [ "The Secretary may establish the defense biotechnology supply-chain program, coordinating with military departments and relevant Defense Agencies; covered activity must develop, scale in, or transition from military-department laboratories biotechnology capabilities relevant to DoD supply-chain resilience.", "If established, the program must meet §244(a)(3) priorities, consultation, and public-private partnership conditions; its laboratory mechanisms may use contracts, cooperative agreements, grants, or OTs." ], "limits": [ "The §244 route is program- and purpose-specific; it is not an unconstrained biotechnology fund.", "Authority terminates ten years after December 18, 2025 unless the President makes the required necessity determination and gives notice before termination." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-08", "note": "15 U.S.C. 3719 is an additional government-wide prize authority applicable to federal agencies, distinct from10 U.S.C. 4025.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "15 U.S.C. §3719", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title15/html/USCODE-2024-title15-chap63-sec3719.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "requirements": [ "The government-wide §3719 prize route has its own eligibility, public notice, judging, conflicts, liability, funding-commitment, and large-prize approval rules." ], "limits": [ "Do not blend the government-wide prize conditions with the separate DoD §4025 regime or use this citation to suggest all prizes may bypass their respective limits." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-25", "note": "Add the student cooperative work-education appointment and support route; keep it distinct from STRL direct-hire and SMART.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2195", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIII-chap111-sec2195.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "requirements": [ "Laboratory cooperative work-education programs partner with U.S. colleges, universities, or their consortia; direct student appointments under §2195(b) have the statutory GS-9 pay ceiling, travel, and tuition-cost conditions.", "A service agreement may be required for tuition-related payments but is not mandatory under §2195(c)." ], "limits": [ "The exemption concerns non-statutory personnel-number or aggregate personnel-cost limits; it does not override statutory workforce restrictions." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-35", "note": "Add the distinct buy-to-budget quantity flexibility, applying the enacted §812 amendments rather than the unamended 2024 baseline.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3069", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartA-chap203-sec3069.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §812(a)(4)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted FY2026 NDAA text; not a proposal." } ], "requirements": [ "Amended §3069 permits the contracting officer to buy a higher end-item quantity on written findings of a substantially unchanged established requirement, cost efficiencies allowing more units without added funding, and no excess over the provided acquisition amount." ], "limits": [ "Read the FY2026 text: §812(a)(4) removed the old full-funding finding, regulatory minimum requirements, and congressional-notice subsection; do not present those deleted provisions as current conditions.", "This remains end-item buy-to-budget authority, not a general transfer or reprogramming power." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-39", "note": "Add a clearly labeled crossing-fiscal-year route, without conflating it with §3531 multiyear services.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3133", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartA-chap207-sec3133.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "requirements": [ "Separate from multiyear contracting, §3133 permits a severable-service contract or real/personal-property lease beginning in one fiscal year and ending in the next when the contract period, excluding extension options, does not exceed one year; the starting-year funds may cover its total amount." ], "limits": [ "Do not describe §3133 as authority for a multiyear commitment beyond its one-year period." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-38", "note": "Add the special long-term propellant purchase authority alongside general multiyear acquisition.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3551", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartC-chap249-subchapIII-sec3551.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "requirements": [ "The special §3551 route is only for its named propellants supporting U.S. national-security or space programs: an initial contract may be up to 10 years, with extension options totaling no more than 10 additional years." ], "limits": [ "The specialized duration is not available for general equipment purchases under §3501." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-54", "note": "B&P is a distinct reimbursable-cost category alongside IR&D; if broadening the record title, use independent R&D and bid/proposal costs, not a general business subsidy.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3763", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartD-chap273-subchapII-sec3763.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "requirements": [ "Section 3763 permits covered-contract B&P costs as indirect expenses only when allocable, reasonable, and not otherwise unallowable; report them separately from other allowable indirect costs." ], "limits": [ "The statutory annual industry-wide goal is not a per-contractor cap and may not be used to deny otherwise allowable costs for the covered year." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-11", "note": "Add adjacent duty and confidentiality context without inventing a separate financing or licensing instrument.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "15 U.S.C. §3710(a)-(c)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title15/html/USCODE-2024-title15-chap63-sec3710.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "35 U.S.C. §205", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title35/html/USCODE-2024-title35-partII-chap18-sec205.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "requirements": [ "Federal laboratory technology-transfer responsibilities and ORTA assistance under §3710 support routing; invention information under §205 may be withheld for the reasonable period needed to protect patent rights and under its terms." ], "limits": [ "Technology-transfer duties and confidentiality provisions are not standalone financial assistance or commercial licensing powers; the award or license still uses its own operative authority." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-28", "note": "Add adjacent duty and confidentiality context without inventing a separate financing or licensing instrument.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "15 U.S.C. §3710(a)-(c)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title15/html/USCODE-2024-title15-chap63-sec3710.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." }, { "citation": "35 U.S.C. §205", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title35/html/USCODE-2024-title35-partII-chap18-sec205.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record." } ], "requirements": [ "Federal laboratory technology-transfer responsibilities and ORTA assistance under §3710 support routing; invention information under §205 may be withheld for the reasonable period needed to protect patent rights and under its terms." ], "limits": [ "Technology-transfer duties and confidentiality provisions are not standalone financial assistance or commercial licensing powers; the award or license still uses its own operative authority." ] } }, { "record_id": "IND-33", "note": "October 5 review adds adjacent statutory coverage: 10 U.S.C. §2804; 10 U.S.C. §2813; 10 U.S.C. §2854; Pub. L. 119-60, §2813. contingency construction, acquisition of an existing facility in lieu of authorized construction, and restoration/replacement authorities.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2804", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2813", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2854", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §2813", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted amendment or statutory note reviewed." } ], "limits": [ "§2804 uses purpose-specific appropriations and a national-security/national-interest nondeferral finding plus seven-day notice.", "§2813 acquisition/modification must satisfy the authorized project within its funding and requires 14-day notice.", "§2854 O&M replacement after a natural disaster or terrorism incident requires the specific certifications/notice; FY2026 §2813 raises its annual aggregate cap to $300 million." ], "requirements": [ "Additional statutory coverage: contingency construction, acquisition of an existing facility in lieu of authorized construction, and restoration/replacement authorities." ] } }, { "record_id": "IND-25", "note": "October 5 review adds adjacent statutory coverage: 10 U.S.C. §2861; 10 U.S.C. §2470. non-previously-authorized industrial-facility MILCON supporting §2474 activities and eligibility of DoD depots to compete for other federal agencies’ maintenance workloads.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2861", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2470", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap146.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "limits": [ "§2861 requires purpose-available MILCON funds, savings information, and 14-day congressional notice.", "§2470 establishes competitive eligibility, not an unrestricted commercial sales or funding exception." ], "requirements": [ "Additional statutory coverage: non-previously-authorized industrial-facility MILCON supporting §2474 activities and eligibility of DoD depots to compete for other federal agencies’ maintenance workloads." ] } }, { "record_id": "IND-26", "note": "October 5 review adds adjacent statutory coverage: 10 U.S.C. §8670. the nuclear-ship-contract exception allowing naval shipyard sales to private shipyards at their request to facilitate a Navy nuclear-propulsion ship or component contract.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §8670", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleC-partIV-chap863.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "limits": [ "Only the enumerated commercial-unavailability and direct-competition conditions are disapplied; the Navy nuclear-contract and requester predicates remain." ], "requirements": [ "Additional statutory coverage: the nuclear-ship-contract exception allowing naval shipyard sales to private shipyards at their request to facilitate a Navy nuclear-propulsion ship or component contract." ] } }, { "record_id": "FIN-08", "note": "October 5 review adds adjacent statutory coverage: 10 U.S.C. §2695. Accept non-Federal counterparty funds for administrative expenses of enumerated real-property exchanges, easements, leases/licenses, disposals, and conservation conveyances.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2695", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "limits": [ "Receipts merge into the paying or otherwise eligible current appropriation/account and retain its purpose and limitations; this is transaction-expense recovery, not profit authority." ], "requirements": [ "Accept non-Federal counterparty funds for administrative expenses of enumerated real-property exchanges, easements, leases/licenses, disposals, and conservation conveyances." ] } }, { "record_id": "IND-30", "note": "October 5 review adds adjacent statutory coverage: 10 U.S.C. §2695. Accept non-Federal counterparty funds for administrative expenses of enumerated real-property exchanges, easements, leases/licenses, disposals, and conservation conveyances.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2695", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap159.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "limits": [ "Receipts merge into the paying or otherwise eligible current appropriation/account and retain its purpose and limitations; this is transaction-expense recovery, not profit authority." ], "requirements": [ "Accept non-Federal counterparty funds for administrative expenses of enumerated real-property exchanges, easements, leases/licenses, disposals, and conservation conveyances." ] } }, { "record_id": "IND-41", "note": "October 5 review adds adjacent statutory coverage: 10 U.S.C. §2836. the separate congressionally authorized military-housing rental-guarantee mechanism.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2836", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap169.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "limits": [ "Maximum 97-percent occupancy assurance and 25-year term; renewal only for government-land projects within the stated ceiling.", "Shortage and historical-use predicates, competitive award, comparable rents, and project/year-specific appropriations conditions differ from §2876." ], "requirements": [ "Additional statutory coverage: the separate congressionally authorized military-housing rental-guarantee mechanism." ] } }, { "record_id": "IND-46", "note": "October 5 review adds adjacent statutory coverage: 10 U.S.C. §2922d. purchase agreements for qualifying domestically extracted and processed coal-, shale-, or tar-sands-derived fuel.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2922d", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap173.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "limits": [ "Requires the statutory defense-need/national-interest framework and clean-fuel standards set in consultation with Energy.", "Multiyear agreements remain subject to other applicable law, including relevant fuel/environmental restrictions." ], "requirements": [ "Additional statutory coverage: purchase agreements for qualifying domestically extracted and processed coal-, shale-, or tar-sands-derived fuel." ] } }, { "record_id": "IND-19", "note": "October 5 review adds adjacent statutory coverage: 50 U.S.C. §98f. special Presidential or specifically delegated national-defense release orders for stockpile materials.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "50 U.S.C. §98f", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap5.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "limits": [ "Distinguish ordinary stockpile sales from Presidential national-defense releases, war/emergency delegated releases, and the designated USD(A&S) manufacturing/production-use release route.", "Prompt congressional reporting applies." ], "requirements": [ "Additional statutory coverage: special Presidential or specifically delegated national-defense release orders for stockpile materials." ] } }, { "record_id": "IND-17", "note": "October 5 review adds adjacent statutory coverage: 50 U.S.C. §4517. reliable-source restriction, critical-component reserve, and substitute-development paths under DPA §107.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "50 U.S.C. §4517", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap55.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "limits": [ "Incentives use Title III or other statutory authority; this section is not a general standalone appropriation or grant.", "DPA termination/extension and appropriations restrictions must be read with existing IND records." ], "requirements": [ "Additional statutory coverage: reliable-source restriction, critical-component reserve, and substitute-development paths under DPA §107." ] } }, { "record_id": "IND-02", "note": "October 5 review adds adjacent statutory coverage: 50 U.S.C. §4518. guarantees for purchase or lease of advanced manufacturing equipment and related services, with small-supplier preference.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "50 U.S.C. §4518", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap55.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits." } ], "limits": [ "Underlying §4531, §4532, or §4533 requirements still apply; this is not a freestanding guarantee without the DPA and credit predicates." ], "requirements": [ "Additional statutory coverage: guarantees for purchase or lease of advanced manufacturing equipment and related services, with small-supplier preference." ] } }, { "record_id": "INT-01", "note": "Allied cooperative RDT&E loans and incoming gifts. Secretary of Defense may lend materials/supplies/equipment to NATO or major non-NATO allies and accept reciprocal loans or gifts for cooperative RDT&E.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2796d", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap39-subchapVI-sec2796d.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "requirements": [ "§2796d supplies a distinct NATO/major-non-NATO-allied RDT&E loan/incoming-gift route: written agreement; approved consumption without repayment only when necessary to project success." ], "limits": [ "§2796d cannot lend strategic-critical material when the stockpile is below the required level." ] } }, { "record_id": "INT-04", "note": "Complete ACSA fiscal and inventory controls. ACSA law specifies waivers, account-crediting and credit/liability liquidation in addition to acquisition and exchange powers.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2343", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap138-subchapI-sec2343.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2345", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap138-subchapI-sec2345.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2346", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap138-subchapI-sec2346.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2348", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap138-subchapI-sec2348.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "limits": [ "§2348 prohibits inventory increases to furnish agreed support; §§2345–2346 separately govern liquidation and receipt crediting." ] } }, { "record_id": "FIN-01", "note": "Separate Economy Act, DoD disbursement and foreign-assistance interagency routes. Add Economy Act crediting, DoD cross-component disbursement and FAA allocation/service-purchase rules as distinct account mechanisms.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2206", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap131-sec2206.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2392(a)-(d)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title22/html/USCODE-2024-title22-chap32-subchapIII-partII-sec2392.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "31 U.S.C. § 1536", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleII-chap15-subchapIII-sec1536.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "requirements": [ "FAA §2392 is a separate Presidential allocation/interagency-service pathway, not a general delegation of partner-agency powers." ], "limits": [ "§2206 disbursements charge the actual obligating component appropriation; §1536 controls Economy Act credits and replacement/miscellaneous-receipt treatment." ] } }, { "record_id": "FIN-02", "note": "Add specific receipt-crediting authorities. Recover qualifying disposal costs and credit permitted excess proceeds under §2210; credit UN joint-operation reimbursements under §2211 and Economy Act payments under §1536.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2210", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap131-sec2210.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2211", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap131-sec2211.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "31 U.S.C. § 1536", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleII-chap15-subchapIII-sec1536.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "limits": [ "§2210 separately permits specified disposal-expense retention and excess credits; §2211 covers payments by UN members for joint operations; §1536 controls Economy Act credits." ] } }, { "record_id": "FIN-06", "note": "Map institution-specific gift powers. Add separate gift funds/rules for dependents schools, regional security centers and National Defense University.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2605", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2605.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2611", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2611.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2612", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2612.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "requirements": [ "Use institution-specific gift authority/account for dependents schools (§2605), regional security centers (§2611) or National Defense University (§2612)." ], "limits": [ "§2611 excludes compromising gifts and gives accepted funds no-year availability; §2607 is separately flagged because the successor intelligence university moved to ODNI." ] } }, { "record_id": "FIN-09", "note": "Complete military claims settlement routes. Add foreign noncombat claims, international-agreement claims and share payments, statutory advances, and the residual small-property-use claim pathway.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2732", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap163-sec2732.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2734", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap163-sec2734.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2734a", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap163-sec2734a.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2734b", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap163-sec2734b.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2736", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap163-sec2736.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2737", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap163-sec2737.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "limits": [ "Foreign claims and international-agreement shares use §§2734–2734b; §2736 permits conditional advances up to $100,000; residual §2737 claims are limited to $1,000 and its narrower eligibility." ] }, "replace": { "summary": "Resolve qualifying domestic or foreign noncombat damage claims, international-agreement claims and statutory advances under the applicable military claims or FTCA mechanism." } }, { "record_id": "FIN-11", "note": "Interchange intra-DoD supplies and services. Military Secretaries may interchange supplies and services without reimbursement unless reimbursement is required by law.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2571", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap153-sec2571.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "requirements": [ "§2571 additionally permits military-department interchange of property or services, subject to applicable reimbursement law." ] } }, { "record_id": "IND-32", "note": "NSA special-cryptologic overseas leases. NSA Director may lease foreign real property for special cryptologic activities and assigned personnel housing for up to ten years.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 3607(a),(c)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap47-sec3607.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "requirements": [ "NSA special-cryptologic activities and housing have a separate §3607 foreign lease route, up to ten years, payable only from available appropriations." ] } }, { "record_id": "INT-38", "note": "Receive interoperable emergency communications equipment. Secretary concerned may accept public-safety communications equipment and related services for coordinated disaster response/recovery.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2614", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap155-sec2614.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "requirements": [ "§2614 provides a separate inbound disaster-response communications route only when military equipment/capability is inadequate; providers do not become federal employees." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-35", "note": "SOCOM specialized acquisition authority. USSOCOM commander has express development/acquisition authority for special-operations-peculiar equipment, material, supplies and services.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 167(e)(4)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap6-sec167.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "requirements": [ "SOCOM’s §167(e)(4) route is limited to special-operations-peculiar equipment, material, supplies and services and remains subject to SecDef direction." ] } }, { "record_id": "FIN-10", "note": "Surface the distinct conditional personal-services route. §129b(d) separately permits qualifying overseas, intelligence/counterintelligence or SOCOM personal-service contracts without applying §3109.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 129b(d)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec129b.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ] }, "replace": { "capability": "Hire experts or procure qualifying personal services", "summary": "Procure temporary/intermittent experts and consultants, or use the separately conditioned personal-services route for overseas, intelligence/counterintelligence or special-operations support.", "requirements": [ "Under §129b(a), expert/consultant services must be advantageous to the United States and not adequately available within DoD; §3109 temporary/intermittent limits apply.", "Under separate §129b(d), services must fit overseas, intelligence/counterintelligence or SOCOM mission categories, be urgent or unique, and be impracticable to obtain by other means; §3109 does not apply." ] } }, { "record_id": "INT-33", "note": "Identify incidental intelligence expenditure authority. Counterintelligence funds may host foreign officials for U.S. consultations; intelligence-element funds may purchase nominal-value recruitment items.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 422", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap21-subchapI-sec422.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "limits": [ "§422 separately authorizes U.S. hosting of foreign counterintelligence officials and nominal-value recruitment items; do not characterize these as unlimited emergency expenditures." ] } }, { "record_id": "INT-42", "note": "Complete geospatial production/publication authority. NGA may prepare and distribute mapping/charting publications and datasets under its assigned production authorities.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 451", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap22-subchapII-sec451.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." }, { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 452", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap22-subchapII-sec452.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-03", "note": "Intelligence-community research/prototype OTA bridge. DNI may exercise and delegate §§4021/4022 authorities to intelligence-community heads under the separate IC research/prototype route.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 3024(m)(6)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap44-subchapI-sec3024.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Former subsection(n)(6); renumbered(m)(6) by FY26 NDAA §6402." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 6402", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025; operative amendment read." } ], "requirements": [ "Defense intelligence elements also have the conditional IC route at 50 USC3024(m)(6); apply its distinct delegation, amount, approval and intelligence-committee rules." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-04", "note": "Intelligence-community research/prototype OTA bridge. DNI may exercise and delegate §§4021/4022 authorities to intelligence-community heads under the separate IC research/prototype route.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 3024(m)(6)", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap44-subchapI-sec3024.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Former subsection(n)(6); renumbered(m)(6) by FY26 NDAA §6402." }, { "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 6402", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025; operative amendment read." } ], "requirements": [ "Defense intelligence elements also have the conditional IC route at 50 USC3024(m)(6); apply its distinct delegation, amount, approval and intelligence-committee rules." ] } }, { "record_id": "FIN-04", "note": "National-defense salaries and expenses realignment. Available executive-agency salaries/expenses appropriations can support legally assigned national-defense responsibilities, with necessary transfers within the agency.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "31 U.S.C. § 1533", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleII-chap15-subchapIII-sec1533.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "limits": [ "31 USC1533 separately permits necessary internal agency salaries/expenses realignment for legally assigned national-defense responsibilities; it is not a general external transfer or new-purpose authority." ] } }, { "record_id": "FIN-02", "note": "Credit third-party property-loss recoveries. Recoveries from third parties for damage to government-expense shipped/stored personal property can reimburse the military department’s claims appropriation.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2739", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap163-sec2739.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks." } ], "limits": [ "§2739 third-party shipped/stored-property recoveries credit the claims appropriation only up to the amount paid to the owner." ] } }, { "record_id": "ACQ-35", "note": "The October 5 sweep also identifies new 10 U.S.C. §2275d (P.L. 119-60 §1603): a space-systems acquisition/operation duty with conditioned commercial augmentation and waiver notice, not a separate financing instrument.", "append": { "legal_basis": [ { "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2275d; P.L. 119-60 §1603", "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm", "kind": "statute", "note": "New codified space-warfighting acquisition duty; commercial augmentation remains conditioned on military direction." } ] } } ] }