EconDefense
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Sources, methods & downloads

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Itemized capabilities & actors

All 168 capability records organized by family, with actor and mechanism graphics.

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Research workbook

Structured records, sources and classifications for offline review.

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Executive briefing

A concise visual introduction to the toolkit, routing and research limitations.

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Complete research dossier

Read the full narrative, statutory detail and analytical synthesis in your browser.

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Capability inventory

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Structured source data

The integrated research corpus, preserved with its original evidence fields.

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What is included

The research contains 168 capability records across 14 functional families, 29 office routing nodes, 12 legal boundaries, 12 strategy-to-authority assessments and six cross-enterprise pathways.

It focuses on publicly documented DoD economic, financial and business capabilities. The inventory is enumerated, not exhaustive, and record counts do not equal independent statutory powers.

Dates and verification

Research target: October 2, 2026.

Site publication: October 3, 2026.

Coverage: targeted current-law reconciliation, not exhaustive or certified. Each record retains its own currentness and confidence narrative. No record-specific last-reviewed dates are asserted.

Funding balances, valid individual delegations, implementation details and transaction-specific eligibility were not independently verified. Legislative sunsets, funds-vintage restrictions and unresolved amendments must be checked before relying on a pathway.

Three distinct kinds of evidence

Legal authority

Statutes and judicial holdings support the stated legal pathway and its limits. Regulations, office pages and strategy documents are not interchangeable with substantive statutory authority.

Actor routing

Record-level actor sources support institutional routing. Office links match explicit names and aliases in the original role labels; they do not prove a role-specific delegation.

Implementation and funds

These are separate execution questions. The website does not infer a green readiness signal from the presence of a statutory citation.

How the website adds navigation

Goal groupings, mechanism tags and office links are editorial aids layered over the preserved research. Mechanism tags are derived from terms explicitly present in an action title. A record may have several tags. Unmatched actors are retained rather than forced into the office directory.

Search includes common equivalents such as OT/other transaction, real estate/real property and standard office acronyms. Comparison presents the underlying text; it does not recommend an award or financing decision.

Research audit trail