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Contracts & purchases Other statutory tools 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.
Basis: ACQ-35 , ACQ-41 , IND-01 , IND-55
ACQ-23 · Research workforce Obtain temporary/intermittent student technical support for defense R&D laboratories, directly or through nonprofit employers.
What this is not / limit: Specified workers-compensation and tort-claims employee status only; not general federal employee status.
Executing role: Laboratory and student or nonprofit employing students
Authority holder Secretary of Defense
Eligibility gate Student and institution meet implementing definitions; services are technical support at defense R&D laboratory. Funding condition Expressly subject to appropriations for this purpose. All recorded limits Specified workers-compensation and tort-claims employee status only; not general federal employee status. Not an unrestricted personal-services contract exception for all professionals. Contracts & purchases
Legal basis Sources linked
Requirements Gates recorded
Actor sources & routing basis 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.