{
  "id": "IND-36",
  "category": "Alternative construction transactions",
  "capability": "Use construction other transactions and successful follow-on awards",
  "summary": "New §2808a permits non-contract/grant/cooperative-agreement transactions for facility construction or repair, including design, prototyping, piloting and execution.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2808a",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2808a&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §2802",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary concerned",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Installation commander and Service facilities/real-estate staff",
      "Service installation secretariat / ASD(EI&E) policy"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Military Department installation budgets / project sponsor"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary concerned or properly delegated real-estate/construction official"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "USACE district real-estate/construction offices",
      "NAVFAC real-estate and facilities engineering commands",
      "AFCEC installations/facility engineering directorates"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Landowners / developers / local governments",
      "Environmental regulators and real-estate counsel"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "Energy, Installations, and Environment: mission and responsibilities",
      "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/"
    },
    {
      "title": "USACE district real-estate execution: acquisition, management, disposal",
      "url": "https://www.saj.usace.army.mil/About/Divisions-Offices/Real-Estate/"
    },
    {
      "title": "NAVFAC real estate business line: Navy/Marine Corps execution",
      "url": "https://pacific.navfac.navy.mil/Facilities-Engineering-Commands/NAVFAC-Hawaii/About-Us/Our-Services/Real-Estate/"
    },
    {
      "title": "AFCEC organizational responsibilities",
      "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/About-Us/Organizational-Structure/"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "§2853 remains applicable",
    "Notify congressional defense committees at least 14 days before transaction with project/cost/fund/rationale",
    "Noncompetitive follow-on requires originally competitive selection and successful usable facility/improvement"
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Separate from emergency §2808; no emergency declaration prerequisite",
    "Express waivers are chapters221/223 and §2851(a), not all law"
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Statutorily available MILCON, O&M or RDT&E funds; availability/purpose and CR analysis still required."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.",
  "availability": "Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.",
  "confidence": "High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.",
  "currentness": "Full enacted FY26 §2802 read; applies to transactions on/after Dec.18,2025.",
  "family": "Property, construction and housing",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other transactions"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "facilities-energy"
  ],
  "office_links": []
}