Finance, furnish, lend, lease or sell specialized contractor research/test facilities
- Objective
- Develop a technology; Improve facilities and energy
- Family / instrument
- Research, innovation and experimentation · Test infrastructure
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of the military department concerned
- Executor · routing lead
- Contracting office and contractor
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Facilities/equipment necessary for contract; allowable-cost rules.
Nonremovable installations on nonfederal land need reimbursement, land-acquisition option or other adequate U.S. protection.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Legally available RDT&E funds, expressly including budget activities 1–3, and O&M funds supporting authorized activities may be used. This authority supplies no new appropriation or finding that project funds are available.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Explicitly does not authorize new construction or improvements with general utility.
- Sale/reimbursement receipts normally go to Treasury unless another law applies.
Implementation caution: Joint-project authority is enacted, but required implementing regulations, standardized agreements and a specifically attributed operating project were not verified. No public application intake is established here.
Program process, audience and dated intake check (2026-10-04)
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.
Actor sources
- TRMC — test infrastructure coordination and investment programs · Official replacement page
- P.L. 119-60 §1802 / 10 U.S.C. 1732 — portfolio plans, budgets, execution and reporting chain
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.