{
  "id": "USC-44",
  "category": "NAFI shared goods and services",
  "capability": "Exchange eligible goods and services through nonappropriated-fund instrumentalities",
  "summary": "DoD instrumentalities supporting exchanges or morale, welfare, and recreation may contract or otherwise agree with DoD elements or other federal entities to provide or obtain beneficial goods, services, or installation dining services.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2492",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap147.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 U.S. Code baseline; see currentness for subsequent amendments and access limits."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "DoD agency or instrumentality supporting the exchange or MWR system",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Relevant statutory program or requirement sponsor; organizational routing to be confirmed"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Responsible component resource owner and comptroller; available funding not verified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "DoD agency or instrumentality supporting the exchange or MWR system; any delegation must be verified"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. §2492: statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap147.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Tie the arrangement to efficient management or operation of the exchange/MWR system or eligible dining facilities."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Not general authority for unrelated NAFI commercial activity or governmentwide unrestricted transfers.",
    "Applicable fund-source and appropriated/nonappropriated-fund rules remain relevant."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → statutory holder and responsible resource owner → legal and fiscal review → authorized executing office. Routing is illustrative; current program intake and individual delegations are unverified.",
  "availability": "Statutory pathway identified; current implementation, intake, funding availability, and executing delegation unverified.",
  "confidence": "High on cited statutory text; no claim of verified current implementation.",
  "currentness": "Statutory scrub 2026-10-05: official GovInfo 2024 Code text and relevant provisions of Pub. L. 119-60/119-21 inspected. Direct OLRC current-text retrieval was unavailable under maintenance. This establishes the described statutory baseline and expressly identified amendments, not an exhaustive post-2024 session-law certification. Current implementation, open intake, available balances, and individual delegations were not verified.",
  "family": "Enterprise resources and shared execution",
  "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": [
    "funding-execution"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Affected participants and legal/fiscal counsel"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "enterprise-resources-and-shared-execution",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-44",
    "name": "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified",
    "label": "Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-44/",
    "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": "Eligible appropriations or other funds lawfully available for the stated purpose; this section does not certify a presently available award balance. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-44/#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-44/#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": "Not general authority for unrelated NAFI commercial activity or governmentwide unrestricted transfers."
}