{
  "id": "ACQ-46",
  "category": "Commercial acquisition",
  "capability": "Purchase metered consumption-based capabilities with flexible lifecycle funding",
  "summary": "Buy a combined software/hardware/data/labor capability as a service billed by actual usage at fixed-price units; use authorized incremental funding and advance payments.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3605",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3605&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §1825",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted public law, not a pending bill."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3805(d)-(e)",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3805&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §1827",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted public law, not a pending bill."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense and military-department Secretaries",
  "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": "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": [
    "Metered actual usage and predetermined fixed unit prices; 75%/90% funding-consumption notifications.",
    "Implementing acquisition provisions and appropriate service model."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Feature/capability additions up to 25% of original contract value receive specified competitive treatment; not unlimited out-of-scope growth.",
    "Do not read lifecycle-purpose provision as permission to move any existing appropriation without fiscal analysis."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Amounts authorized for this acquisition authority may cover RDT&E, procurement, production, modification and O&M; incremental contracts/agreements and advances expressly permitted."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Capability owner → contracting/fiscal team designs unit pricing and funding controls → authorized award → metered monitoring and budget replenishment.",
  "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": "New 10 U.S.C. §3605 read directly in P.L. 119-60 §1825; OLRC indexed text dated 2026-08-02. Implementation and FY2027 balances unverified.",
  "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Contracts & purchases"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Warranted contracting officer and program manager"
    }
  ]
}