{
  "id": "ACQ-30",
  "category": "Intellectual property & technology transfer",
  "capability": "Retain government-use rights and conditionally intervene in federally funded inventions",
  "summary": "Under covered small-business/nonprofit funding agreements, allow contractor title while retaining a paid-up government license; invoke statutory march-in only on specified findings.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "35 U.S.C. §202",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title35-section202&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "35 U.S.C. §203",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title35-section203&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "35 U.S.C. §204",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title35-section204&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Funding federal agency, with specified agency-head decisions",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "USD(R&E) and Service science-and-technology executives",
      "DARPA or Service laboratory/program manager"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Sponsoring component RDT&E budget owner; component comptroller"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense or military-department Secretary; valid delegate must be confirmed"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DARPA Contracts Management Office or Service contracting/grants/agreements office",
      "Performing laboratory or external research performer"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Operational customer / acquiring program",
      "Security, export-control, counsel and fiscal officials as applicable"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DARPA Contracts Management Office — award and administration roles",
      "url": "https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/contracts-management"
    },
    {
      "title": "Army Technology Transfer Program — agreement tools and laboratory roles",
      "url": "https://www.t2.army.mil/T2-Program/T2-Agreements/"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Subject invention and applicable funding agreement; disclosure/title-election/patent conditions.",
    "March-in requires failure of practical application, unmet health/safety or regulatory public-use need, or U.S. manufacturing-agreement violation."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Not general power to seize all privately developed patents, cap market prices, or obtain proprietary manufacturing know-how.",
    "March-in includes administrative process and judicial review; some determinations stayed through appeal."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Government license follows covered research funding; exercising it still requires money for procurement/use."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Award officer documents subject invention → IP counsel verifies license or march-in predicate → agency process/decision → licensed performer.",
  "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": "GovInfo 2024 Code (includes FY2025 NDAA, P.L. 118-159) read in full for cited provision; targeted FY2026 NDAA P.L. 119-60 amendment/repeal sweep. No claim of complete legislative currency through 2026-10-02; remaining 2026 delta needs counsel validation.",
  "family": "Intellectual property and technology transfer",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "usd-research-engineering",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(R&E) and Service science-and-technology executives"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "comptrollers",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Sponsoring component RDT&E budget owner; component comptroller"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense or military-department Secretary; valid delegate must be confirmed"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "DARPA Contracts Management Office or Service contracting/grants/agreements office"
    }
  ]
}