{
  "id": "USC-10",
  "category": "Public-private talent exchange",
  "capability": "Temporarily exchange civilian talent with private-sector organizations",
  "summary": "Arrange consensual temporary assignments of DoD civilian employees to private organizations or their employees to DoD, under a written three-party agreement and the statute’s employment, ethics, duration, and cost rules.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §1599g",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap81-sec1599g.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official GovInfo 2024 baseline; read alongside the enacted amendments identified in this record."
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §821",
      "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",
  "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; 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": "Public-private talent exchange — statutory holder and execution conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap81-sec1599g.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Agreement of the company and employee is required; an outgoing DoD employee generally undertakes return service equal to twice the assignment.",
    "Ordinary assignments run three months to two years, with statutory renewals or mission-need determinations up to four years and the cumulative outgoing limit.",
    "At least 20 percent of annual assignments must be from small businesses; preserve mission performance and applicable workforce restrictions."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Incoming private employees remain paid by their employer and may not perform inherently governmental work or access commercially valuable nonpublic information for that employer.",
    "Their employer may not charge federal contracts for the pay or benefits covering the assignment.",
    "P.L. 119-60 §821 removed 18 U.S.C.207 from this provision’s deemed-employee list; the other enumerated ethics provisions remain."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "The specified defense acquisition workforce fund may cover qualifying program salary, travel, and administration expenses; current balances unverified."
  ],
  "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. OLRC preliminary text labeled effective July 15, 2026 corroborates the §821 amendment.",
  "family": "Workforce and expertise",
  "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": [
    "Cooperation & exchanges"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense; transaction-specific delegation must be confirmed"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "workforce-and-expertise",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-10",
    "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-10/",
    "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": "The specified defense acquisition workforce fund may cover qualifying program salary, travel, and administration expenses; current balances unverified. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-10/#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-10/#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": "Incoming private employees remain paid by their employer and may not perform inherently governmental work or access commercially valuable nonpublic information for that employer."
}