EconDefense
Record-specific actor routing

Follow through on USC-18

Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

This is a record-specific route, not an additional institutional directory node. Current assignment must be verified.

Authority holder · recorded legal basis

Secretary of Defense

Executing office · routing lead

Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

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 recordedEligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Selected instrument

USC-18 · Dual-use critical technology assistance

Co-fund competitive dual-use critical technology projects

Support defense-relevant dual-use research, development, and application through grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, research other transactions, and technical or laboratory assistance.

What this is not / limit: Section 4021 governs the research other-transaction instrument.

Executing role: Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense

Eligibility gate

  • Use competitive project selection and statutory national-security, technical, personnel, market, cost-sharing, and nonduplication criteria.
  • Federal funding normally may not exceed half of total project cost; a particularly meritorious project may exceed that share only on the specified insufficient-non-Federal-resources determination.

Funding condition

  • Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance.

All recorded limits

  • Section 4021 governs the research other-transaction instrument.
  • Small-business cost-sharing arrangements and a period of at least 120 days to arrange required resources are governed by subsection (c).
Other statutory tools
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.