{
  "id": "ACQ-33",
  "category": "Test infrastructure",
  "capability": "Finance, furnish, lend, lease or sell specialized contractor research/test facilities",
  "summary": "An R&D contract may acquire or construct necessary specialized research/development/test facilities and equipment at U.S. expense and make them available to the contractor.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §4174",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4174&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of the military department concerned",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "R&D program and test engineers"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Military-department research program funds"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Military-department Secretary determination/authorized delegate"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Contracting office and contractor"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Facilities/property officials and IP/fiscal counsel"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "TRMC — test infrastructure coordination and investment programs",
      "url": "https://ac.cto.mil/trmc/"
    },
    {
      "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": [
    "Facilities/equipment necessary for contract; allowable-cost rules.",
    "Nonremovable installations on nonfederal land need reimbursement, land-acquisition option or other adequate U.S. protection."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Explicitly does not authorize new construction or improvements with general utility.",
    "Sale/reimbursement receipts normally go to Treasury unless another law applies."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "R&D contract funds; loans/leases may be with or without reimbursement; sales at fair value."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Program establishes necessity → facilities/fiscal review → Secretary/delegate determination → contract sets property/disposition protections.",
  "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": "Research, innovation and experimentation",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Loans & guarantees",
    "Property & leases"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology",
    "facilities-energy"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Facilities/property officials and IP/fiscal counsel"
    }
  ]
}