{
  "id": "ACQ-47",
  "category": "COCOM acquisition",
  "capability": "Request enhanced rapid contracting for COCOM operational needs",
  "summary": "A combatant commander can make written determinations to senior contracting officials for defined contingency, CBRN/cyber response, humanitarian/peacekeeping and below-armed-conflict directed operations.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 118-31, §843",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ31/html/PLAW-118publ31.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Uncodified 10 U.S.C. §3601 note; full enacted text reproduced in audited GovInfo 2024chapter 253."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Combatant commander requests; senior contracting official exercises contracting tools",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Combatant commander and operational staff"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Command/supporting component certifying funds"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Combatant commander determination; senior contracting official award authority"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Supporting joint/Service contracting activity"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Joint Staff and USD(A&S) for statutory reporting"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "P.L. 118-31 §843 — distinct commander and contracting-official roles",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ31/html/PLAW-118publ31.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Written rationale, requested tools and attestation of available funds.",
    "Applicable operation and time-sensitive/unplanned situation."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Not a power for commander to sign any contract personally; contracting-official role remains.",
    "Enhanced thresholds/commercial treatment are as specified in §843, not general exemption from all requirements."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Existing attested available funds; no separate appropriation created."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "COCOM need → written commander determination and fund certification → senior contracting official → rapid award → Joint Staff/USD(A&S) reporting.",
  "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. Express sunset 2028-09-30.",
  "family": "Acquisition, transition and contract finance",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "usd-acquisition-sustainment",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Joint Staff and USD(A&S) for statutory reporting"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "joint-staff",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Joint Staff and USD(A&S) for statutory reporting"
    }
  ]
}