{
  "id": "ACQ-41",
  "category": "Contract financing",
  "capability": "Provide advance, progress, partial and performance-based contract payments",
  "summary": "Finance performance of authorized property/services contracts and accelerate eligible small-business payments; tailored commercial-payment rules are available.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3801",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3801&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3802",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3802&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3803",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3803&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3804",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3804&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Primary statutory text; primary GovInfo baseline and amendment audit identified in research narrative."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §3805",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section3805&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, §1827",
      "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; authorized contracting/finance officials",
  "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": [
    "Payment basis, adequate security where required and public-interest determination for general advances.",
    "Progress/performance evidence; aggregate payments cannot exceed unpaid contract price."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Contract financing is not an unrestricted corporate loan or investment.",
    "FY26 specifies qualifying commercial subscription/consumption payments are not advances for §3803 purposes; do not infer waiver of all fiscal limits."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Appropriate contract funds; rules differ for ordinary advance payments, commercial payments and performance-based arrangements."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Contracting/program office assesses financing need → finance/security and price review → authorized terms → disbursing office pays milestone/progress amounts.",
  "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"
    }
  ]
}