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Match an industrial bottleneck to demand commitments, credit, third-party investment support, facility expansion or coordination tools.

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

What this group is not: These pathways do not supply interchangeable powers or funds; each retains its own purpose, procedures and exclusions.

Basis: ACQ-43, FIN-01, FIN-11

IND-05 · Industrial facilities and equipment

Install industrial equipment and improve government or private plants

Procure/install government-owned equipment in government and private industrial facilities; modify or expand private facilities and transfer installed equipment under express DPA terms.

What this is not / limit: Does not convey an unrestricted real-estate investment mandate

Executing role: Assigned DPA Title III executing office and warranted contracting officer; current assignment must be verified

Authority holder

President or authorized delegate

Eligibility gate

  • Finding action aids national defense
  • Private owner waiver/indemnity conditions for government equipment
  • Applicable Title III determinations and funding
  • For the FY26 DPA Purchases appropriation, enacted text permits Secretary of Defense obligation/expenditure as if delegated necessary DPA authorities; do not treat an Executive Order as the independent substantive grant. Transaction-specific nondelegable findings and credit limits still require review.

Funding condition

  • DPA appropriations and properly authorized project instrument.
  • FY26 enacted DPA Purchases: $321.923M no-year. This is appropriated program amount, NOT verified remaining balance or automatic credit-principal ceiling.

All recorded limits

  • Does not convey an unrestricted real-estate investment mandate
  • Private new-facility construction language is more explicit in §4817(i)(4) than in DPA §4533(e)
  • Most DPA authorities expire December 11, 2026 under §4564 as amended by Pub. L. 119-103; §4558 is excepted.
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

IND-06 · Industry coordination

Organize supervised voluntary industry agreements with limited antitrust defense

Establish voluntary agreements and plans for defense preparedness, with statutory safeguards that can protect conforming actions from antitrust liability.

What this is not / limit: No general immunity for industry coordination

Executing role: Assigned DPA Title III executing office and warranted contracting officer; current assignment must be verified

Authority holder

President or qualifying Senate-confirmed designee; Attorney General has required findings role

Eligibility gate

  • Defense-threat finding
  • Attorney General/FTC consultation, approvals, rules, notices, records and supervision
  • Agreement certified necessary; AG finds less anticompetitive alternative inadequate

Funding condition

  • Administrative resources and any separately authorized transactions require lawful funds.

All recorded limits

  • No general immunity for industry coordination
  • Five-year agreement duration unless renewed
  • §4558 is expressly excepted from DPA general sunset
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

IND-10 · Financial technical assistance

Support financial structuring, due diligence and credit servicing

Provide technical assistance to OSC applicants/recipients; charge limited transaction fees, accept specified professional services, and use other agencies’ personnel/facilities by agreement.

What this is not / limit: Fees may not pay DoD civilian salaries/expenses or unrelated activities

Executing role: OSC Director and credit transaction team

Authority holder

OSC Director

Eligibility gate

  • Assistance tied to eligible investments
  • Fees limited to specified credit-administration and third-party transaction costs
  • Other-agency consent for shared services

Funding condition

  • Subject to appropriations; fees deposited into Credit Program Account with no-year availability but restricted purposes.
  • Enacted FY26 credit appropriation $97.770M no-year with $4.390B principal ceiling. FY25 reconciliation separately supplied $500M minerals-focused and $1B general capital-assistance funding through Sep.30,2029, each with $100B principal ceiling. These are statutory amounts, not remaining balances; do not simply add ceilings into deployable cash.

All recorded limits

  • Fees may not pay DoD civilian salaries/expenses or unrelated activities
  • New technical assistance ends Oct. 1, 2028; servicing/fees on outstanding loans continue as provided
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Public fundingScale documented
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Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

IND-14 · Market-shaping incentives

Offset market manipulation and sustain strategic-material supplies

Provide subsidies to offset market manipulation; use conditioned material subsidy payments, including loss-making resale or purchase commitments, for specified supply risks.

What this is not / limit: No covered-country source subsidies under §4817(i)(3)

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense

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
  • Apply high-cost-source or temporary-transport-cost findings for §4817(i)(3)

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

  • No covered-country source subsidies under §4817(i)(3)
  • Above-market/loss commitments require inability to secure better terms or overseas-supply necessity findings
  • Not a general tariff, sanction or price-control authority
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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.

IND-16 · Industrial infrastructure

Construct and improve private or government industrial facilities

Expressly procure/install equipment, construct private facilities, modify production processes, transfer government equipment and construct facilities for eligible supply chains.

What this is not / limit: No free-standing commercial real-estate speculation authority

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense

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
  • Secretary determines action aids U.S. defense interests

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

  • No free-standing commercial real-estate speculation authority
  • Project land rights, environmental rules and fund availability remain action-specific
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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.

IND-17 · Industrial supply resilience

Qualify substitutes, restrict sourcing to reliable sources and create reserves

Support material/component substitutes and production incentives; use reliable-source restrictions, stockpiles, reserves and lead-time planning. Excess acquired materials may transfer to National Defense Stockpile without acquisition reimbursement.

What this is not / limit: No blanket waiver of acquisition restrictions

Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense

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
  • Reliability definition in §4817(m)(2); national-security finding for substitutes
  • Public-interest determination for excess transfer

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

  • No blanket waiver of acquisition restrictions
  • Incidental transfer costs paid/reimbursed by receiving stockpile/reserve
  • New provisions sunset Dec.31,2035
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Public fundingRules recorded
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

OEC-01 · Adversarial-capital assessment

Assess adversarial capital flows into defense-relevant businesses

Assess investments from governments of adversary countries, or entities organized under their laws or otherwise subject to their jurisdiction, in industries or businesses of interest to DoD, in consultation with other DoD and Federal components.

What this is not / limit: Assessment is not a standalone power to block investments, compel disclosures, or exercise CFIUS authority.

Executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director

Authority holder

Office of Expanded Competition within the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force; headed by the OEC Director

Eligibility gate

  • The investment must fall within the adversarial-capital-flow definition in §9025(d)(1).
  • Consult other DoD and Federal components.

Funding condition

  • §9025 does not specify a dedicated appropriation or available balance. Identify legally available funds and the fiscal conditions of the proposed action.

All recorded limits

  • Assessment is not a standalone power to block investments, compel disclosures, or exercise CFIUS authority.
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RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScope documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
EngagementRole recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

OEC-02 · Critical-technology prioritization

Prioritize critical technologies and assets needing capital assistance

Identify and prioritize promising critical technologies and assets for the Joint Force that need capital assistance, including those available from foreign entities.

What this is not / limit: Prioritization is not an award, loan approval, or proof that a proposed recipient is eligible for a particular instrument.

Executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director

Authority holder

Office of Expanded Competition within the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force; headed by the OEC Director

Eligibility gate

  • Joint Force critical technology or asset needing capital assistance.
  • Capital assistance means a loan, loan guarantee, or technical assistance under §9025(d)(2).

Funding condition

  • §9025 does not specify a dedicated appropriation or available balance. Identify legally available funds and the fiscal conditions of the proposed action.

All recorded limits

  • Prioritization is not an award, loan approval, or proof that a proposed recipient is eligible for a particular instrument.
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Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScope documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
EngagementRole recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

OEC-05 · Vital-asset development

Accelerate vital-asset development, construction, procurement and leasing

Identify, accelerate and sustain vital tangible and intangible national-security assets through establishment, research, development, construction, procurement, leasing, consolidation, alteration, improvement, modernization and repair.

What this is not / limit: The office duty does not state a blanket exemption from fiscal, acquisition, leasing or military-construction requirements.

Executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director

Authority holder

Office of Expanded Competition within the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force; headed by the OEC Director

Eligibility gate

  • The tangible or intangible asset must be vital to U.S. national security.
  • Identify the execution instrument, lawful funds, responsible office and applicable project requirements.

Funding condition

  • §9025 does not specify a dedicated appropriation or available balance. Identify legally available funds and the fiscal conditions of the proposed action.

All recorded limits

  • The office duty does not state a blanket exemption from fiscal, acquisition, leasing or military-construction requirements.
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RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScope documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
EngagementRole recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.