{
  "id": "USC-04",
  "category": "Alternative-source development",
  "capability": "Lend or sell replenishment parts for replication and fund qualifying small-business source testing",
  "summary": "Give domestic businesses access to government replenishment parts for design replication or modification in preparing future offers, and use the separately conditioned qualification-testing route to develop additional small-business sources.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3773",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartD-chap275-subchapI-sec3773.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3243",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartB-chap223-sec3243.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §812(a)(6)",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted FY2026 NDAA text; not a proposal."
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §1841(f)(2)",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted FY2026 NDAA text; not a proposal."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense for replenishment-part programs; head of the procuring agency for qualification testing",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Relevant DoD mission or program sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller; available funding not verified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense for replenishment-part programs; head of the procuring agency for qualification testing; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Program counsel, fiscal officials, and eligible external counterpart as applicable"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "Domestic business concerns: programs for replenishment parts; Encouragement of new competitors: qualification requirement — statutory holder and execution conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartD-chap275-subchapI-sec3773.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Parts under §3773 support later offers for the same or like parts; national-security and inventory restrictions remain applicable.",
    "For government-paid testing under §3243(d), fewer than two actual manufacturers or their products must be available to compete; the small business or its product must meet the specified standards and reasonably be expected to compete.",
    "The small business must certify size status; paid testing excludes producing the item or establishing the production or quality-control system.",
    "Amended §3243(e) separately requires an expedited, risk-based qualification process for advanced manufacturing before or during war or activation of the Civil Reserve Manufacturing Network."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Borrowing a part does not itself convey third-party intellectual-property rights or guarantee a later award.",
    "P.L. 119-60 §812(a)(6) removed the former cost-savings-amortization finding: do not carry that repealed prerequisite into the current route."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Lawfully available source-development and procurement funds; no tested company eligibility, current program funding, or accepted qualification verified."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → relevant program or personnel lead → counsel and fiscal review → official holding the required authority → eligible counterpart. Named functions are routing guidance, not verified individual delegations.",
  "availability": "Express statutory pathway identified in the USC scrub. Current implementation, public intake, appropriations, available balances, and transaction-specific delegations were not independently verified.",
  "confidence": "High on the cited statutory text and express conditions; operational availability is unverified.",
  "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 enacted-amendment search. OLRC direct pages were intermittently under maintenance. This is not an exhaustive certification of legislation after that baseline, funding, implementation, or individual delegation.",
  "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance",
  "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05",
  "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.",
  "usc_review_notes": [
    "Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified."
  ],
  "mechanisms": [
    "Loans & guarantees"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense for replenishment-part programs; head of the procuring agency for qualification testing; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "acquisition-transition-and-contract-finance",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Loans & guarantees"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-04",
    "name": "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative",
    "label": "Authorized component contracting, agreements, or personnel office; assignment is illustrative",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-04/",
    "basis": "Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office."
  },
  "program_context": [],
  "program_research": null,
  "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": "Rules recorded",
      "detail": "Lawfully available source-development and procurement funds; no tested company eligibility, current program funding, or accepted qualification verified. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-04/#funding"
    },
    {
      "key": "delegation",
      "label": "Assigned roles",
      "state": "Roles recorded",
      "detail": "Public sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-04/#roles"
    },
    {
      "key": "execution",
      "label": "Engagement",
      "state": "Program unverified",
      "detail": "Added in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.",
      "url": "/sources/usc/"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "Borrowing a part does not itself convey third-party intellectual-property rights or guarantee a later award."
}