EconDefense
Authority / instrument

Loans & guarantees

Find how to acquire, process, qualify, lend or replenish strategic materials for defense reserves and reliable supply.

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

What this group is not: A loan or guarantee is not equity, and a loan tag may describe lending materials or equipment rather than cash.

Basis: IND-03, IND-09, IND-21, INT-22

IND-21 · Materials lending and barter

Loan strategic materials and barter to maintain reserves

Loan stockpile material to DOE or military departments with repayment assurance; use authorized barter and fair-market-value materials transfers to pay acquisition or processing costs.

What this is not / limit: Material loans are not cash lending to private businesses

Executing role: DLA Strategic Materials acquisition, materials management, and contracting functions

Authority holder

President / permissible delegated Stockpile Manager; delegation reserved exceptions apply

Eligibility gate

  • Similar-or-superior returned quantity/quality or payment assurance
  • 30-day congressional notice for material loans
  • Barter must be authorized, practical and in U.S. interest

Funding condition

  • Material accounting and Stockpile Transaction Fund transaction controls; not general off-budget spending.

All recorded limits

  • Material loans are not cash lending to private businesses
  • Cannot dispose of reserves through barter beyond statutory disposal authority
Loans & guarantees
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

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