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.
What this is not / limit: Borrowing a part does not itself convey third-party intellectual-property rights or guarantee a later award.
Executing role: Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative
Authority holder
Secretary of Defense for replenishment-part programs; head of the procuring agency for qualification testing
Eligibility gate
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.
Funding condition
Lawfully available source-development and procurement funds; no tested company eligibility, current program funding, or accepted qualification verified.
All recorded 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P.L. 119-60 §812(a)(6) removed the former cost-savings-amortization finding: do not carry that repealed prerequisite into the current route.