{
  "id": "ACQ-19",
  "category": "Small-business scale-up",
  "capability": "Match outside capital with strategic breakthrough Phase II awards",
  "summary": "Make milestone-linked SBIR strategic breakthrough awards up to $30m per small business including affiliates across up to 48 months, with matching resources and acquisition commitment.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "15 U.S.C. §638(aa)(6), (ff)(3)",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section638&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 119-83, §3",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ83/html/PLAW-119publ83.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted public law, not a pending bill."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Eligible federal agency; DoD acquisition and SBIR officials",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "DoD/component SBIR-STTR program office and technical topic owner"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Component extramural R&D budget owner"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Authorized component grants/contracting official; required research-security reviewers"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Service or Defense Agency SBIR-STTR office and award officer"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "SBA program-wide policy",
      "Eligible small business; acquisition customer; research-security and counterintelligence partners"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "SBA participating agencies — DoD component SBIR/STTR offices",
      "url": "https://www.sbir.gov/participating-agencies"
    },
    {
      "title": "P.L. 119-60 §1802 / 10 U.S.C. 1732 — portfolio plans, budgets, execution and reporting chain",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Prior Phase II SBIR/STTR award; at least 100% matching from new private capital and/or qualifying non-Phase I/II government funding.",
    "DoD: readiness, high-priority need, POM inclusion commitment by acquisition executive or higher; at least 20% of required match from new qualifying DoD funds."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "No federal equity acquisition created; this is a funding agreement.",
    "Agency must satisfy eligibility and implement procedures; award deadline 90 days does not eliminate required findings."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Up to 0.50% of extramural R&D from agency SBIR allocation if required SBIR expenditure exceeds $100m; match and statutory ceilings are not available funds."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Mission customer → acquisition executive POM commitment → SBIR office and match verification → security/legal review → milestone agreement.",
  "availability": "Express statutory pathway; award-specific appropriations, available balances, delegations, implementation and approvals not independently verified.",
  "confidence": "High on express authority and cited conditions; execution assignment is illustrative unless statute expressly names it.",
  "currentness": "New authority read directly in P.L. 119-83 §3, enacted 2026-04-13; section/amendments cease effective 2031-09-30. Operational adoption and appropriated balances not verified.",
  "family": "Research, innovation and experimentation",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology",
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "defense-agencies",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Service or Defense Agency SBIR-STTR office and award officer"
    }
  ]
}