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IND-25 / Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships

Partner with private firms at depots and arsenals

Designated Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence may execute public-private work-sharing and allow use of underutilized equipment/facilities to sustain skills and reduce ownership costs.

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At a glance

Mission goalExpand production
Possible toolIND-25 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: Designating Service Secretary or Secretary of Defense for Defense Agency centers

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

  • Core-competency relationship
  • No significant adverse readiness effect
  • Private partner reimburses attributable direct/indirect costs and indemnifies subject to exceptions

Limits & exclusions

  • Not blanket outsourcing of inherently governmental/core work
  • Specific on-site nonfederal work exemption from 50/50 calculation is not repeal of depot restrictions

Funding conditions

  • Receipts credited to cost-bearing appropriation/fund; statutory facility operations/maintenance/restoration uses.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Service materiel/sustainment command
  • Depot/arsenal Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence

Resources

  • Service working-capital fund and customer appropriations

Approval

  • Secretary concerned / Secretary of Defense as statute specifies
    Office profile

Execution

  • Authorized depot/arsenal commander and contracting/finance offices

Partners & review

  • Private industrial partner
  • Service legal counsel

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: 2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.

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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