{
  "id": "ACQ-49",
  "category": "Rapid acquisition & resource alignment",
  "capability": "Start urgent development before the next budget cycle",
  "summary": "With Secretary of Defense approval, a Service Secretary may initiate urgent/emerging development to exploit new technology or respond to threats using bounded rapid acquisition/funding authorities.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 118-31, §229",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ31/html/PLAW-118publ31.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Uncodified 10 U.S.C. §3601 note; enacted text reproduced in GovInfo 2024chapter 253."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Military-department Secretary with Secretary of Defense approval",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Service Secretary and operational/technical sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Current-year Service procurement or RDT&E funds"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense approves Service Secretary determination"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Service program and contracting offices"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Comptroller, OMB/congressional notifications, receiving acquisition pathway"
    ]
  },
  "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": [
    "Compelling urgent/emergency need; explain why waiting for next President budget harms defense.",
    "Identify current-year funding and acquisition pathway/programmed transition funding within 2 years."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "DoD-wide annual $100m limit under this mechanism; initial 1 year with single 1 year extension/notice.",
    "Chapter 221 competition may not be waived; other §3601 fiscal/penalty restrictions remain."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Current-year procurement or RDT&E funds permitted under specific authority; not unlimited reprogramming."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Service identifies threat/technology → funding/transition case → Service Secretary request and Secretary of Defense approval → notice → development and planned program transition.",
  "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": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense approves Service Secretary determination"
    }
  ]
}