{
  "id": "IND-45",
  "category": "Utility privatization",
  "capability": "Convey utility systems and contract for long-term service and upgrades",
  "summary": "Transfer military utility systems to utility entities; procure services and contribute authorized project funds toward system improvements. FY26 broadens post-conveyance monetary contributions.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2688",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2688&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, §2842",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of military department",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Installation energy manager",
      "Service energy office / ASD(EI&E)"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Installation utility/O&M accounts or authorized project funds"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary concerned; Secretary of Defense approval when statute requires"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DLA Energy Installation Energy or Utility Services as appropriate",
      "Service contracting officers / USACE / NAVFAC / AFCEC"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Utility / energy-service company",
      "DOE technical assistance; State utility regulator where required"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DLA Energy organizational business units",
      "url": "https://www.dla.mil/Energy/About/Organization.aspx"
    },
    {
      "title": "Energy, Installations, and Environment: mission and responsibilities",
      "url": "https://www.acq.osd.mil/eie/"
    },
    {
      "title": "AFCEC organizational responsibilities",
      "url": "https://www.afcec.af.mil/About-Us/Organizational-Structure/"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Competition or valid exception",
    "Business-case cost-effectiveness for terms >10 years",
    "Reliability, resilience/cybersecurity, health/safety and utility regulation",
    "Authorized/appropriated improvement project for §2688(k)"
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Service terms normally10years, up to50years on finding",
    "Army civil works systems excluded",
    "Utility ownership does not transfer military mission authority"
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Utility service appropriations; authorized MILCON contributions under(h)/(k); receipts merged into specified appropriations."
  ],
  "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": "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": "Energy, environment and communities",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Contracts & purchases",
    "Property & leases"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "facilities-energy"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary concerned; Secretary of Defense approval when statute requires"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Service contracting officers / USACE / NAVFAC / AFCEC"
    }
  ]
}