EconDefense
Record-specific actor routing

Follow through on USC-48

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-48 · Commercial cargo and passenger support

Transport eligible civilian cargo and passengers and arrange cargo insurance

Provide paid transportation on available DoD vessels, vehicles, and aircraft when commercial capacity is unavailable; support qualifying contingency/disaster movements without charge on a noninterference basis; arrange commercial cargo-insurance products.

What this is not / limit: Ordinary rates may not be below comparable commercial rates; emergency, disaster, and humanitarian charges instead may not exceed DoD cost.

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

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense

Eligibility gate

  • Apply available-space and commercial-unavailability conditions to ordinary paid transport.
  • Apply the contingency/disaster facilitation determination for no-charge transport; commercial insurers must collect premiums, handle claims, and provide the specified waivers and hold-harmless terms.

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

  • Ordinary rates may not be below comparable commercial rates; emergency, disaster, and humanitarian charges instead may not exceed DoD cost.
  • Ordinary receipts go to Treasury; only the specified emergency/disaster/humanitarian receipts may be credited back to the incurring account.
  • DoD does not become the cargo insurer under the commercial-insurance provision.
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.