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IND-28 / Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships

Guarantee commercial tenant loans at eligible Army ammunition facilities

ARMS expressly permits loan guarantees to establish commercial activity using eligible facilities, potentially administered with SBA or USDA.

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At a glance

Possible toolIND-28 · Loans & guarantees

Authority holder: Secretary of the Army

Loans & guarantees

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

Availability and verification

Statutory authority identified; operating loan-guarantee program and present funding not verified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Eligible ARMS commercial activity
  • Advance appropriated subsidy budget authority
  • Agreement needed for SBA/USDA administration

Limits & exclusions

  • Annual guaranteed principal cap $20M per borrower and $320M total
  • Army ARMS official document describes this credit program as no longer used; statute alone is not proof of operational funding

Funding conditions

  • Federal Credit Reform Act advance cost appropriation; no current subsidy appropriation verified.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Army ammunition industrial-base program
    Office profile
  • Joint Munitions Command ARMS team

Resources

  • Army ARMS program / ammunition industrial-base resource sponsor
    Office profile

Approval

Execution

  • Army ARMS program, JMC, participating GOCO facility operators
    Office profile

Partners & review

  • Commercial tenants / property managers
  • SBA or USDA administrator only under a credit administration agreement

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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