EconDefense
Record-specific actor routing

Follow through on ACQ-23

Laboratory and student or nonprofit employing students

This preserves the record’s role labels; it is not an additional verified institutional directory node.

Authority holder · recorded legal basis

Secretary of Defense

Executing office · routing lead

Laboratory and student or nonprofit employing students

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Intake

Use the responsible program or contracting office for this instrument.

The recorded role is not itself a general application endpoint.

What this role does not control

A routing lead does not establish funds, an individual delegation or approval of the proposed action.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedThe record states funding rules and conditions; no program amount is attributed to this action.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram-specificRecorded executing role: Laboratory and student or nonprofit employing students. Use the responsible program’s process.

Selected instrument

ACQ-23 · Research workforce

Contract directly for university students’ temporary technical services

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 basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.