{
  "id": "IND-18",
  "category": "Industrial innovation pilot",
  "capability": "Use a time-limited industrial innovation pilot for credit and third-party debt/equity investment",
  "summary": "An uncodified pilot expressly lists loans, guarantees, purchase commitments, cost-sharing and third-party awards supporting debt/equity investment in small/medium manufacturers.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 115-91, §1711",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ91/html/PLAW-115publ91.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 116-283, §213(c)",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-116publ283/html/PLAW-116publ283.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 4816",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4816&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Pilot Program on Strengthening the Defense Industrial and Innovation Base note"
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "USD(A&S) / Industrial Base Policy / Industrial Base Resilience / WIRE",
      "Military Department and COCOM requirement sponsors"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Industrial Base Fund / IBAS program",
      "DoD Comptroller and component funding sponsors"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense or lawfully authorized delegate"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Industry / eligible intermediaries",
      "DoD General Counsel and fiscal counsel"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "Industrial Base Policy: Warfighting Investments, Resourcing, and Execution (WIRE)",
      "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire.html"
    },
    {
      "title": "Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program",
      "url": "https://www.businessdefense.gov/ibr/wire/ibas.html"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Pilot supports military manufacturing or emerging defense/commercial technologies",
    "Use applicable underlying contracting, OT or other lawful authorities and credit appropriations"
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Pilot terminates Dec.31,2026",
    "Express third-party equity support does not establish unlimited direct Treasury equity acquisition",
    "Existing credit subsidy/principal authority must be identified"
  ],
  "funding": [
    "No inferred appropriation or revolving authority; credit assistance requires credit-law analysis."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.",
  "availability": "Time-limited statutory pathway; operating program, credit budget authority, and new-award feasibility not verified.",
  "confidence": "High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.",
  "currentness": "2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.",
  "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Investment & capital"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "expand-production"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "usd-acquisition-sustainment",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(A&S) / Industrial Base Policy / Industrial Base Resilience / WIRE"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "Military Department and COCOM requirement sponsors"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "comptrollers",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "DoD Comptroller and component funding sponsors"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense or lawfully authorized delegate"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "DoD General Counsel and fiscal counsel"
    }
  ]
}