EconDefense
Record-specific actor routing

Follow through on ACQ-46

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 and military-department Secretaries

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-46 · Commercial acquisition

Purchase metered consumption-based capabilities with flexible lifecycle funding

Buy a combined software/hardware/data/labor capability as a service billed by actual usage at fixed-price units; use authorized incremental funding and advance payments.

What this is not / limit: Feature/capability additions up to 25% of original contract value receive specified competitive treatment; not unlimited out-of-scope growth.

Executing role: Warranted contracting officer and program manager

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense and military-department Secretaries

Eligibility gate

  • Metered actual usage and predetermined fixed unit prices; 75%/90% funding-consumption notifications.
  • Implementing acquisition provisions and appropriate service model.

Funding condition

  • Amounts authorized for this acquisition authority may cover RDT&E, procurement, production, modification and O&M; incremental contracts/agreements and advances expressly permitted.

All recorded limits

  • Feature/capability additions up to 25% of original contract value receive specified competitive treatment; not unlimited out-of-scope growth.
  • Do not read lifecycle-purpose provision as permission to move any existing appropriation without fiscal analysis.
Contracts & purchases
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

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