{
  "id": "ACQ-51",
  "category": "Contract relief & risk allocation",
  "capability": "Grant extraordinary national-defense contractual relief",
  "summary": "Under Presidential authorization during qualifying emergency, enter/amend/modify contracts and make advances where necessary to facilitate national defense, subject to statutory safeguards.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. §1431",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section1431&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. §1432",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section1432&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. §1433",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section1433&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. §1435",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section1435&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. §3862",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3862&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, §876",
      "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": "President authorizes; DoD/Service officials or Contract Adjustment Boards within lawful delegation",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Program/contracting officer and contractor requesting relief"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Responsible contract/program funds and authorized relief sources"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Applicable senior department official or Contract Adjustment Board; President’sauthorization predicates"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Contracting officer and departmental relief process"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "DCMA insurance review for hazardous/nuclear requests; fiscal/counsel; Congress at threshold"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "50 U.S.C. chapter 29, including Executive Order 10789 implementation note",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap29.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "FY26 §876 —90-dayhazardous-indemnification review and DCMA input",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "National-defense facilitation; valid Presidential authorization and applicable national emergency.",
    "Above $500k approval at specified senior level; above $150m congressional notice and 60 days continuous-session wait."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Not permission to disregard all procurement/fiscal laws; §1432 express exclusions remain.",
    "Separate inflation-only §1431(c)-(d) authority ended 2025-12-31 in audited law and is not treated as currently available.",
    "Statute is substantive grant; Executive Order 10789 only supplies implementation/delegation, not a substitute grant."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Available lawful funds and contingent-liability review; special inflation relief required specific appropriations even when active."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Program/contractor → contracting officer and counsel → relief board/senior official → required Congress notice → contract modification or permitted relief.",
  "availability": "Conditional statutory pathway; current emergency/delegation predicate and funds must be validated. Inflation-only temporary branch not represented as available.",
  "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. No FY26 NDAA extension of §1431(e) inflation-only authority identified; general §1431(a) must not be confused with that expired branch.",
  "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Contracts & purchases",
    "Grants & cooperative agreements"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "Program/contracting officer and contractor requesting relief"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Contracting officer and departmental relief process"
    }
  ]
}