{
  "id": "OEC-03",
  "category": "Investment funding",
  "capability": "Fund investments in critical technologies and assets",
  "summary": "Fund investments in the critical technologies and assets identified for the Joint Force, including supply-chain technologies not always supported through direct investment.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9025(c)(3)",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Office duty; read the subsection and definitions together."
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 118-159 §924(a)",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted text establishing §9025."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Office of Expanded Competition within the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force; headed by the OEC Director",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Office of Expanded Competition"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Funding account and responsible resource owner not verified"
    ],
    "approver": [],
    "executor": [
      "Office of Expanded Competition Director"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Relevant DoD and Federal components"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. §9025(a)–(c): organizational placement, Director and duties",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Connect the investment to the technologies and assets described in §9025(c)(2).",
    "Identify the transaction form, applicable requirements, lawful funds, and authorized signatory before execution."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "This is an express investment-funding duty, not merely coordination; the subsection does not specify an unrestricted direct-equity portfolio or particular financing instrument.",
    "No dedicated appropriation, available balance, or individual transaction delegation is established by this record."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "§9025 does not specify a dedicated appropriation or available balance. Identify legally available funds and the fiscal conditions of the proposed action."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Office of Expanded Competition → relevant DoD or Federal partner → identify the applicable instrument, lawful funds and authorized approving/executing official. No transaction-specific signature authority is verified.",
  "availability": "Statutory duty recorded; operating procedures, current funding, individual delegation and public intake have not been verified.",
  "confidence": "High on the cited statutory duty. Family placement is editorial; executor is an organizational routing lead, not a verified individual delegation.",
  "currentness": "Added October 4, 2026. Enacted §9025 text in P.L. 118-159 §924 retrieved; official OLRC search-index text through September 2026 corroborated it while the direct page was under maintenance. Targeted P.L. 119-60 text search found no §9025 or Office of Expanded Competition reference. This is not exhaustive later-law certification.",
  "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit",
  "supplement": "oec-2026-10-04",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-04",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Investment & capital"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology",
    "expand-production"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "expanded-competition",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "Office of Expanded Competition"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "expanded-competition",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Office of Expanded Competition Director"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "industrial-capacity-capital-and-credit",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Investment & capital"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "expanded-competition",
    "name": "Office of Expanded Competition",
    "label": "Office of Expanded Competition Director",
    "url": "/offices/expanded-competition/",
    "basis": "Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes."
  },
  "checks": [
    {
      "key": "legal",
      "label": "Legal basis",
      "state": "Sources linked",
      "detail": "Legal sources and instrument limits are recorded."
    },
    {
      "key": "eligibility",
      "label": "Requirements",
      "state": "Gates recorded",
      "detail": "Read the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action."
    },
    {
      "key": "funds",
      "label": "Public funding",
      "state": "Scope documented",
      "detail": "Investment duties established; no standalone OEC budget verified in the reviewed sources. Institutional/program context, not a funding allocation to this specific action.",
      "url": "/offices/expanded-competition/#profile-funding"
    },
    {
      "key": "delegation",
      "label": "Assigned roles",
      "state": "Remit sourced",
      "detail": "Public sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.",
      "url": "/offices/expanded-competition/#institutional-authority"
    },
    {
      "key": "execution",
      "label": "Engagement",
      "state": "Role recorded",
      "detail": "Recorded executing role: Office of Expanded Competition Director. Use the responsible program’s process.",
      "url": "/offices/expanded-competition/#engagement"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "This is an express investment-funding duty, not merely coordination; the subsection does not specify an unrestricted direct-equity portfolio or particular financing instrument."
}