General Counsel, component counsel and authorized award officials
Counsel test the chosen mechanism against law; the actual contracting, grants, agreements, real-property, credit or claims official exercises the particular delegated authority.
What this office does not control
An office’s inclusion in this directory is not evidence of a named individual’s warrant, delegation, funds certification or transaction approval.
Counts are matches to names and explicit aliases within the original role labels. They are routing leads, not appointment, warrant or delegation evidence.
Conduct basic, applied and advanced research and development internally, through military departments, by contract, or by agreement with another federal agency.
Provide assistance for defense-relevant research; use a cooperative agreement when substantial federal involvement is expected, and a grant when it is not.
Use research transactions outside procurement contracts, grants and cooperative agreements; negotiate advances and repayment clauses that credit designated research-support accounts.
Carry out directly defense-relevant prototypes, including proofs of concept, business processes, reverse engineering for obsolescence, commercial-technology pilots and agile development.
Implement or expand successful prototype results through a follow-on production contract or transaction, including sustainment; a successful consortium subproject need not await all other subprojects.
Purchase or modify purchases, domestically or abroad, of experimental/test demonstrations, prototypes, products, supplies, parts, auxiliary services and design for defense development.