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Find a lawful operating, partnering or reimbursable-work route for depots, arsenals and other defense industrial facilities.

4 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-24 · Revolving industrial finance

Operate reimbursable supply and industrial businesses with working-capital funds

Finance inventories and common industrial/commercial services; recover costs from customer appropriations and support capital assets under specified rules.

What this is not / limit: Not authority to conduct arbitrary commercial businesses or make private loans

Executing role: Service industrial and supply activities; DLA supply chains; Defense Agency common-service providers

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense; Treasury establishes accounts; Service Secretaries allocate functions

Eligibility gate

  • Designated inventory or industrial/common-service activity
  • Customer has funds for purpose
  • Cost recovery, separate accounts and capital subaccounts

Funding condition

  • Capitalization/appropriation plus reimbursable customer orders; §2208(k) is specific capital-asset timing authority, not unlimited deficit finance.

All recorded limits

  • Not authority to conduct arbitrary commercial businesses or make private loans
  • Outside-DoD work requires independent authority
  • Minor-construction depot flexibility in §2208(u) extended through Sep.30,2027
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IND-25 · Organic industrial partnerships

Partner with private firms at depots and arsenals

Designated Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence may execute public-private work-sharing and allow use of underutilized equipment/facilities to sustain skills and reduce ownership costs.

What this is not / limit: Not blanket outsourcing of inherently governmental/core work

Executing role: Authorized depot/arsenal commander and contracting/finance offices

Authority holder

Designating Service Secretary or Secretary of Defense for Defense Agency centers

Eligibility gate

  • Core-competency relationship
  • No significant adverse readiness effect
  • Private partner reimburses attributable direct/indirect costs and indemnifies subject to exceptions

Funding condition

  • Receipts credited to cost-bearing appropriation/fund; statutory facility operations/maintenance/restoration uses.

All recorded limits

  • Not blanket outsourcing of inherently governmental/core work
  • Specific on-site nonfederal work exemption from 50/50 calculation is not repeal of depot restrictions
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IND-26 · Industrial sales

Sell government industrial products or services to non-DoD customers

Designated working-capital industrial facilities may sell articles/services not available from U.S. commercial sources; Army cannon/ammunition facilities use their distinct §7543 route.

What this is not / limit: Not unrestricted competition with private industry

Executing role: Authorized depot/arsenal commander and contracting/finance offices

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense; Army Secretary for §7543; Service Secretaries under §2208(j)

Eligibility gate

  • Commercial nonavailability or valid national-security waiver where applicable
  • No interference with military mission
  • Substantial in-house performance; indemnity conditions

Funding condition

  • Required statutory cost recovery and credit to cost-bearing funds; advance incremental payments permitted under §2563.

All recorded limits

  • Not unrestricted competition with private industry
  • Export controls continue
  • Different statutory pathways have different eligibility tests
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IND-27 · Industrial property reuse

Commercialize underused Army ammunition facilities through ARMS

Make eligible GOCO ammunition facilities available using facility-use contracts, property management, leases and in-kind consideration, maintaining mobilization capacity while lowering ownership cost.

What this is not / limit: Historical extra 25-year option authority applied only to contracts entered by its specified deadline; do not treat as open-ended new-award authority

Executing role: Army ARMS program, JMC, participating GOCO facility operators

Authority holder

Secretary of the Army

Eligibility gate

  • Eligible Government-owned contractor-operated ammunition facility
  • Commercial use consistent with Army needs and ARMS purposes
  • Evaluate efficiency, cost and mobilization

Funding condition

  • ARMS appropriations for program support; consideration can include improvements, overhead/product-cost reductions or demilitarization services.

All recorded limits

  • Normal contract terms up to 25 years
  • Historical extra 25-year option authority applied only to contracts entered by its specified deadline; do not treat as open-ended new-award authority
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