{
  "id": "ACQ-53",
  "category": "Contract relief & risk allocation",
  "capability": "Assume classified-contract work-in-process risk that cannot be commercially insured",
  "summary": "DoD must not require contractors to bear specified work-in-process loss when classification prevents obtaining insurance or processing a claim under covered fixed-price product contracts.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3864",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3864&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, §801",
      "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; authorized contracting/risk officials",
  "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"
    },
    {
      "title": "FY26 §801 enactedrisk-allocationterms",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Classified fixed-price product contract entered after 2025-12-18.",
    "Classification causes unavailable commercial insurance or inability to process claim."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Does not cover managerial willful misconduct/lack of good faith or contractor workmanship error.",
    "Protection applies to work in process before government delivery/acceptance, not every corporate loss."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Allocate risk expressly in eligible contract and review contingent exposure; statute does not itself provide an appropriation."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Classified program and contractor → security/insurance evidence → contracting/fiscal/counsel → appropriate contract risk allocation.",
  "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": "10 U.S.C. §3864 enacted P.L. 119-60 §801; full text read; implementing DFARS required within 120 days, completion not verified.",
  "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Contracts & purchases",
    "Security & information"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Warranted contracting officer and program manager"
    }
  ]
}