{
  "id": "ACQ-18",
  "category": "Transition & scaling",
  "capability": "Purchase SBIR/STTR-derived technology through Phase III awards",
  "summary": "Make follow-on awards, including qualifying sole-source awards, for development, testing, production or services derived from prior SBIR/STTR work using non-SBIR/STTR funding.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "15 U.S.C. §638(e)(4), (e)(6), (e)(13), (r), (y)",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section638&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 119-83, §3(b), 6",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ83/html/PLAW-119publ83.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted public law, not a pending bill."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Federal acquiring agency; DoD contracting/award officials and acquisition customers",
  "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": "SBA participating agencies — DoD component SBIR/STTR offices",
      "url": "https://www.sbir.gov/participating-agencies"
    },
    {
      "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": [
    "Demonstrable connection to SBIR/STTR-funded technology and award recipient.",
    "Prior program competition and Phase III statutory rules; assess ownership/data rights and commercialization readiness."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Phase III is not funded from Phase I/II set-aside; not a blanket sole-source award for unrelated offerings.",
    "Statutory preference is to greatest extent practicable, with reporting/appeal safeguards."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Acquisition customer supplies appropriate non-SBIR/STTR funds; no separate Phase III funding entitlement."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "SBIR/STTR office documents lineage → program/requirements office sponsors adoption → contracting officer confirms Phase III and funds → award.",
  "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. P.L. 119-83 adds training and customer-access/commercialization changes; Phase III lineage must be verified per action.",
  "family": "Research, innovation and experimentation",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Contracts & purchases"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology",
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Warranted contracting officer and program manager"
    }
  ]
}