{
  "id": "USC-73",
  "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit",
  "category": "Commercial space and airlift",
  "capability": "Accept commercial contributions and provide space-launch infrastructure support",
  "summary": "Enter support agreements and accept voluntary contributions of money, services and equipment from eligible U.S.-organized commercial-space entities for defense space-transportation infrastructure.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §2276",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap135-sec2276.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code baseline; reviewed October 5, 2026 with targeted P.L. 119-60 amendment check. Not a complete current-law citator."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Sponsoring defense component and mission customer; current assignment must be verified"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Sponsoring component budget owner and comptroller"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense; transaction-specific delegation must be verified"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Participating eligible commercial entity; fiscal, security and legal reviewers"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. §2276 — statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partIV-chap135-sec2276.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Added commercial requirements must be fully nonfederally funded before agreement execution; the required best-interest, noninterference and competition findings apply.",
    "Contribution agreements must address ownership, use and disposition and prohibit recovering the contribution through another U.S. agreement."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Not general corporate investment authority: contributions and expenditures are limited to the statutory infrastructure objectives."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Cash contributions go to the Defense Cooperation Space Launch Account; obligation requires advance appropriations. Appropriated account money is available until expended."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Mission customer → responsible component program office → eligibility, fiscal and security review → authorized contracting or agreement official. This is an illustrative routing chain, not a verified delegation.",
  "availability": "Express statutory mechanism; current program implementation, open intake, funds and individual delegations were not verified in this statutory review.",
  "confidence": "High on the express mechanism in the reviewed official text; no claim of verified transaction readiness.",
  "currentness": "Reviewed October 5, 2026: official 2024 Code body and targeted enacted P.L. 119-60 text search. Selected OLRC September 2026 indexed text corroborates §§2274, 2276, 9513 and 9531. Later enactments and annual riders were not exhaustively reconciled.",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05",
  "implementation_caution": "Statutory coverage only: no current implementing program, application window, available balance or individual delegation verified.",
  "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05",
  "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": [
    "expand-production"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense; transaction-specific delegation must be verified"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "industrial-capacity-capital-and-credit",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-73",
    "name": "Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified",
    "label": "Responsible commercial-space or airlift contracting/agreement office; current assignment must be verified",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-73/",
    "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": "Cash contributions go to the Defense Cooperation Space Launch Account; obligation requires advance appropriations. Appropriated account money is available until expended. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-73/#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-73/#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 corporate investment authority: contributions and expenditures are limited to the statutory infrastructure objectives."
}