EconDefense
Record-specific actor routing

Follow through on ACQ-44

Warranted contracting officer and program manager

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

Authority holder · recorded legal basis

Secretary of Defense; Service/component acquisition decision officials

Executing office · routing lead

Warranted contracting officer and program manager

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.
EngagementRole recordedRecorded executing role: Warranted contracting officer and program manager. Use the responsible program’s process.

Selected instrument

ACQ-44 · Software acquisition

Continuously acquire, develop and update software and covered hardware

Use statutory applications and embedded-systems software pathways for iterative delivery, commercial cloud use and qualifying software-embedded hardware.

What this is not / limit: Exemptions from selected planning frameworks are not exemptions from all procurement, cybersecurity or fiscal requirements.

Executing role: Warranted contracting officer and program manager

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense; Service/component acquisition decision officials

Eligibility gate

  • Proven technologies/solutions, ongoing user engagement and cybersecurity metrics; statutory rapid-delivery objectives.
  • Covered hardware must meet commercial/nondevelopmental and embedded-software definition.

Funding condition

  • Appropriate software/hardware lifecycle funds; correct contracting instrument and sustained operations budget still needed.

All recorded limits

  • Exemptions from selected planning frameworks are not exemptions from all procurement, cybersecurity or fiscal requirements.
  • Normally not treated as MDAP absent specific USD(A&S)/Service acquisition executive designation.
Other statutory tools
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
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Actor sources & routing basis

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