{
  "id": "USC-71",
  "category": "Conditional intelligence acquisition authority",
  "capability": "Use DNI-approved exceptional acquisition powers for defense intelligence",
  "summary": "A defense intelligence element may exercise specified CIA Act acquisition powers for an acquisition more than half funded by the National Intelligence Program only after an individualized or class-based DNI authorization.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 3024(m)(4)-(5)",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap44-subchapI-sec3024.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "2024 subsection (n) renumbered (m) by P.L. 119-60 §6402; read together with enacted amendments."
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 6402",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025; operative amendment read."
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 6501",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025; operative amendment read."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Director of National Intelligence and head of the requesting defense intelligence element",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Defense intelligence element acquisition sponsor (illustrative routing lead)"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Director of National Intelligence and head of the requesting defense intelligence element"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized element acquisition and financial officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "DNI",
      "DoD counsel"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "50 U.S.C. § 3024(m)(4)-(5) statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title50/html/USCODE-2024-title50-chap44-subchapI-sec3024.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 6402 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 6501 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Element head personally requests authority with insufficiency/mission-need justification; DNI issues written authorization; requests follow DoD procedures.",
    "Notify congressional intelligence committees of each authorization or extension regardless of dollar size; notify OMB for acquisitions/classes exceeding $50 million annually. Keep requests/authorizations at least six years."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Class authorizations ordinarily no more than three years, or six with nondelegated DNI action; renewals require statutory process.",
    "No automatic inheritance of CIA powers; §3510(b) unvouchered-funds power is not granted by this bridge; applicable §3510(c) notice/guidance remains."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Acquisition more than50% National Intelligence Program-funded; current appropriation and separate source conditions required."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.",
  "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.",
  "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.",
  "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification. P.L. 119-60 §§6402 and6501 verified. Current citation is §3024(m), not pre-FY26 §3024(n).",
  "family": "Intelligence, counterintelligence and security",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05",
  "supplement": "usc-review-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": [
    "Security & information"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "technology-protection"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "comptrollers",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "intelligence-counterintelligence-and-security",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Security & information"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-71",
    "name": "Authorized element acquisition and financial officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)",
    "label": "Authorized element acquisition and financial officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-71/",
    "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": "Acquisition more than50% National Intelligence Program-funded; current appropriation and separate source conditions required. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-71/#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-71/#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": "Class authorizations ordinarily no more than three years, or six with nondelegated DNI action; renewals require statutory process."
}