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Authority / instrument

Security & information

Choose a purchasing, transition or contract-financing route to move a capability into funded delivery and sustainment.

1 records in this family–mechanism intersection. These editorial groups do not expand legal scope.

What this group is not: Information and security tools do not create general police or commercial-investigation powers, or unrestricted release of protected data.

Basis: IND-07, IND-07, INT-36, INT-37, INT-42

ACQ-53 · Contract relief & risk allocation

Assume classified-contract work-in-process risk that cannot be commercially insured

DoD must not require contractors to bear specified work-in-process loss when classification prevents obtaining insurance or processing a claim under covered fixed-price product contracts.

What this is not / limit: Does not cover managerial willful misconduct/lack of good faith or contractor workmanship error.

Executing role: Warranted contracting officer and program manager

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense; authorized contracting/risk officials

Eligibility gate

  • Classified fixed-price product contract entered after 2025-12-18.
  • Classification causes unavailable commercial insurance or inability to process claim.

Funding condition

  • Allocate risk expressly in eligible contract and review contingent exposure; statute does not itself provide an appropriation.

All recorded limits

  • Does not cover managerial willful misconduct/lack of good faith or contractor workmanship error.
  • Protection applies to work in process before government delivery/acceptance, not every corporate loss.
Contracts & purchasesSecurity & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

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