{
  "id": "ACQ-42",
  "category": "Rapid acquisition",
  "capability": "Rapidly acquire urgent capabilities and make limited emergency funding/waiver decisions",
  "summary": "Respond to documented combat, contingency or cyber deficiencies through accelerated acquisition/deployment; specified determinations unlock bounded use of available funds and selected legal waivers.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3601",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3601&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense or Deputy Secretary of Defense for reserved determinations; designated senior official for permitted waivers",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "COCOM/Joint Staff operational sponsor and acquisition community"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Secretary of Defense-designated available DoD accounts; component comptrollers"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense or Deputy Secretary of Defense; designated senior official for statutory waivers"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Service/component program and contracting office"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "DOT&E, OMB, congressional defense committees"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "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"
    },
    {
      "title": "TRMC — test infrastructure coordination and investment programs",
      "url": "https://ac.cto.mil/trmc/"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Documented qualifying deficiency or compelling national-security rapid-pathway need and written determination.",
    "Acquisition, funding, evaluation, disposition and transition strategy; prescribed congressional notice."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Cannot waive criminal/civil-penalty statutes, appropriations-expenditure laws or §3601 itself.",
    "Baseline annual statutory pools:$200m each for combat, contingency and cyber categories; $50m for immediate rapid-pathway starts; sustainment use limited 2 years."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Only permitted available funds and O&M accounts; findings/notices and fiscal review essential."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "COCOM deficiency → Service acquisition/fiscal team → Secretary of Defense/Deputy determination → senior official waivers → rapid contract/evaluation/deployment.",
  "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.",
  "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "joint-staff",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "COCOM/Joint Staff operational sponsor and acquisition community"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "COCOM/Joint Staff operational sponsor and acquisition community"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense-designated available DoD accounts; component comptrollers"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense or Deputy Secretary of Defense; designated senior official for statutory waivers"
    }
  ]
}