EconDefense
IND-06 / Industrial capacity, capital and credit

Organize supervised voluntary industry agreements with limited antitrust defense

Establish voluntary agreements and plans for defense preparedness, with statutory safeguards that can protect conforming actions from antitrust liability.

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At a glance

Mission goalExpand production
Possible toolIND-06 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: President or qualifying Senate-confirmed designee; Attorney General has required findings role

Other statutory tools

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

  • Defense-threat finding
  • Attorney General/FTC consultation, approvals, rules, notices, records and supervision
  • Agreement certified necessary; AG finds less anticompetitive alternative inadequate

Limits & exclusions

  • No general immunity for industry coordination
  • Five-year agreement duration unless renewed
  • §4558 is expressly excepted from DPA general sunset

Funding conditions

  • Administrative resources and any separately authorized transactions require lawful funds.

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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

  • Attorney General / DOJ Antitrust Division
  • Federal Trade Commission
  • Representative industry participants

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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