Use contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and other transactions; provide private-sector incentives to create, maintain, protect, expand or restore essential domestic industrial-base capabilities. Express eligible uses include workforce, facilities and production infrastructure.
What this is not / limit: Purpose-limited supply-chain program, not general economic development
Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer
Authority holder
Secretary of Defense; Fund control assigned by §4817(b) to USD(A&S) through named industrial-base office
Eligibility gate
Enumerated §4817(g)(1) defense supply-chain purposes; other purposes require essentiality/timeliness findings and 30-day report
No activity in the six covered countries under §4817(m)
Applicable approval and award instrument
Funding condition
Industrial Base Fund appropriations; Pub. L.119-60 §867(b) bars using funds made available BEFORE Dec.18,2025 for newly added §4817(g)–(j) activities. FY27 CR limitations independently apply to its funds.
All recorded limits
Purpose-limited supply-chain program, not general economic development