Find the bounded financial, information-sharing or protection mechanisms that support authorized defense intelligence and security work.
1 records in this family–mechanism intersection. These editorial groups do not expand legal scope.
What this group is not: A contract or purchase tag is not general lending or equity authority; priorities, purchase commitments and financing-cost treatment remain distinct routes.
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.
What this is not / limit: This is not a government-wide ban on any disfavored supplier; action must fit the statute’s three covered procurement actions.
Executing role: Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative
Authority holder
Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military department
Eligibility gate
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).
Funding condition
Existing acquisition resources; no separate capital or grant authority.
All recorded 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.