{
  "id": "ACQ-05",
  "category": "Transition & scaling",
  "capability": "Award follow-on production or sustainment after a successful prototype OT",
  "summary": "Implement or expand successful prototype results through a follow-on production contract or transaction, including sustainment; a successful consortium subproject need not await all other subprojects.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4022(f)-(h)",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4022&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4022(a)(2)(C)",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4022&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Authorized §4022 awarding official; covered official approves follow-on awards above statutory threshold",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Operational requirement owner; Service/component portfolio acquisition executive and program manager"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Sponsoring Service/component appropriations manager and comptroller"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Service/component acquisition executive and authorized contracting authority, at applicable threshold"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Warranted contracting officer and program manager"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "User command",
      "Counsel, fiscal, engineering, testing, logistics and security staff as applicable"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DIU Work With Us — mission customer, liaison, funding and prototype execution",
      "url": "https://www.diu.mil/work-with-us"
    },
    {
      "title": "P.L. 119-60 §1802 / 10 U.S.C. 1732 — portfolio plans, budgets, execution and reporting chain",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Noncompetitive follow-on requires competitive selection of prototype participants and successful completion of the relevant prototype.",
    "Award to participants and documentation tying production to successful result."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "A noncompetitive prototype does not automatically create noncompetitive production eligibility.",
    "Follow-ons above $100m require covered-official findings and notice when exercised; paragraph(d) participation/cost-share tests do not reapply to production."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Production/sustainment funds appropriate to the deliverable; prototype dollars do not assure a funded transition."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "User and program office agree success and adoption → budget owner provides production/sustainment funding → covered official if needed → authorized contracting/agreements officer.",
  "availability": "Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.",
  "confidence": "High on express authority and cited conditions; execution assignment is illustrative unless statute expressly names it.",
  "currentness": "GovInfo 2024 Code (includes FY2025 NDAA, P.L. 118-159) read in full for cited provision; targeted FY2026 NDAA P.L. 119-60 amendment/repeal sweep. No claim of complete legislative currency through 2026-10-02; remaining 2026 delta needs counsel validation. OLRC indexed §4022 currency 2026-09-15; prototype source and success remain transaction-specific.",
  "family": "Research, innovation and experimentation",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other transactions"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology",
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Warranted contracting officer and program manager"
    }
  ]
}