{
  "id": "ACQ-48",
  "category": "COCOM experimentation",
  "capability": "Conduct COCOM experiments and make findings supporting transition",
  "summary": "Each combatant commander can conduct experimentation, prototyping and technology demonstrations addressing command operational needs and support acquisition with written operational-need findings.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §873",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted public law, not a pending bill."
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 118-31, §843",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ31/html/PLAW-118publ31.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted public law, not a pending bill."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Each combatant commander; senior contracting official retains applicable award role",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Combatant commander and innovation/experimentation staff"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Command or supporting component available project funds"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Commander; senior contracting official and applicable acquisition approver"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Command experiment team with supporting contracting/research organizations"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Service acquisition customer; Joint Staff; USD(A&S)"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "P.L. 119-60 §873 — new COCOM experimentation authority",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Technology/capability solution addresses command-identified operational need.",
    "§843 special contracting procedures must be followed when used."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Completion determination may fulfill listed justification/capability-need requirements; not waiver of all §3204 approvals or fiscal conditions.",
    "Sunset 2028-09-30."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Authority does not create a command-wide discretionary appropriation; identify lawful available funding and transition customer."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "COCOM need and resource sponsor → experiment/prototype instrument → commander operational determination → senior contracting official and Service/customer funded transition.",
  "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": "P.L. 119-60 §873 read directly; authority expires 2028-09-30.",
  "family": "Research, innovation and experimentation",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology",
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "usd-acquisition-sustainment",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Service acquisition customer; Joint Staff; USD(A&S)"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "joint-staff",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Service acquisition customer; Joint Staff; USD(A&S)"
    }
  ]
}