{
  "id": "USC-08",
  "category": "Exportability and technology protection",
  "capability": "Cost-share technology-protection and exportability features in designated defense systems",
  "summary": "Develop technology-protection and exportability features for designated systems to improve allied or partner capability and interoperability, sharing the specified development costs with contractors and conditionally treating the contractor share as allowable independent R&D.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4067",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapI-sec4067.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3762",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartD-chap273-subchapII-sec3762.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment designates systems",
  "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; Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment designates systems; 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": "Technology protection features activities — statutory holder and execution conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partV-subpartE-chap303-subchapI-sec4067.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Use a designated system and the statutory technology-protection purpose.",
    "Covered contracts normally allocate half the cost to the contractor; another share requires the Secretary’s good-cause determination.",
    "Allowable IR&D treatment requires the statutory determination and, for a designated system, Milestone B approval."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "This does not itself license an export, approve a foreign sale, or transfer classified technology."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Lawfully available development funds plus contractor cost share; §3762 regulations govern any eligible IR&D treatment."
  ],
  "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": "Research, innovation and experimentation",
  "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": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense; Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment designates systems; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "usd-acquisition-sustainment",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense; Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment designates systems; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "research-innovation-and-experimentation",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-08",
    "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-08/",
    "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 development funds plus contractor cost share; §3762 regulations govern any eligible IR&D treatment. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-08/#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-08/#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": "This does not itself license an export, approve a foreign sale, or transfer classified technology."
}