EconDefense
IND-04 / Industrial capacity, capital and credit

Underwrite industrial capacity through purchases, offtake commitments and targeted subsidies

Purchase industrial resources or critical technology items for use or resale, encourage mining, and support production or technology transition; conditioned subsidies can sustain threatened high-cost domestic material sources.

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At a glance

Mission goalExpand production
Possible toolIND-04 · Contracts & purchases

Authority holder: President; duly delegated execution with reserved findings

Contracts & purchases

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Written essentiality, shortfall and cost-effectiveness determinations unless valid waiver
  • Shortfall notices, >$50M threshold requirements and authorization/waiver analysis
  • Above-market or anticipated-loss purchases require further findings
  • For the FY26 DPA Purchases appropriation, enacted text permits Secretary of Defense obligation/expenditure as if delegated necessary DPA authorities; do not treat an Executive Order as the independent substantive grant. Transaction-specific nondelegable findings and credit limits still require review.

Limits & exclusions

  • Commitments generally no more than 10 years
  • DPA domestic-source eligibility is not worldwide: U.S./Canada and conditioned Australia/U.K. rule for Title III
  • Most DPA authorities expire December 11, 2026 under §4564 as amended by Pub. L. 119-103; §4558 is excepted.

Funding conditions

  • DPA Fund and advance appropriations; funds and allowable commitment liability must be present.
  • FY26 enacted DPA Purchases: $321.923M no-year. This is appropriated program amount, NOT verified remaining balance or automatic credit-principal ceiling.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • USD(A&S) / Industrial Base Policy / WIRE
    Office profile
  • Military Department capability and supply-chain sponsors

Resources

Approval

  • President / authorized statutory delegate; nondelegable findings retained where applicable

Execution

  • Assigned DPA Title III executing office and warranted contracting officer; current assignment must be verified
    Office profile

Partners & review

  • Treasury / OMB for credit
  • Other resource-jurisdiction agencies as applicable
  • Congressional notification recipients

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

Confidence: High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.

Currentness: DPA operative 2024 text read and compared with OLRC September 2026 entries; Pub. L. 119-103, div. B §2004 extends §4564 to Dec. 11, 2026. Pub. L. 119-60 §862 removes statutory barriers to changing the Air Force Executive Agent, not itself a replacement designation.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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