{
  "id": "ACQ-38",
  "category": "Procurement & demand commitments",
  "capability": "Commit to multiyear equipment purchases and economic-order quantities",
  "summary": "Contract across program years to stabilize demand and permit economic production and advance component buys, subject to findings and legislative controls.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3501",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3501&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 119-60, §804",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted public law, not a pending bill."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Head of agency; Secretary of Defense and Congress for specified authorizations/certifications",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Operational requirement owner; Service/component portfolio acquisition executive and program manager"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Sponsoring Service/component appropriations manager and comptroller"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Service/component acquisition executive and authorized contracting authority, at applicable threshold"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Warranted contracting officer and program manager"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "User command",
      "Counsel, fiscal, engineering, testing, logistics and security staff as applicable"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "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": [
    "Find savings or otherwise-unachievable industrial-base stability; stable need/design, realistic costs and funding expectations, and national-security benefit.",
    "Large contracts and specified programs require statutory authorization, certification and notice."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "FY26 removed the word significant from the savings test; it did not abolish remaining findings.",
    "Ordinary statutory term and cancellation rules remain, with product-specific exceptions such as FY26 §804.",
    "No guarantee Congress will appropriate future-year money."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Available first-year funds; out-year continuation subject to appropriations; cancellation exposure must be assessed and funded through lawful sources."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "PAE/program and industrial planner → cost/design/fiscal findings → Service/OSD approval and Congress where required → multiyear contract.",
  "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": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Contracts & purchases"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "prototype-to-use",
    "expand-production"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Warranted contracting officer and program manager"
    }
  ]
}