{
  "id": "IND-25",
  "category": "Organic industrial partnerships",
  "capability": "Partner with private firms at depots and arsenals",
  "summary": "Designated Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence may execute public-private work-sharing and allow use of underutilized equipment/facilities to sustain skills and reduce ownership costs.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2474",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2474&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2464",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2464&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2466",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2466&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Designating Service Secretary or Secretary of Defense for Defense Agency centers",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Service materiel/sustainment command",
      "Depot/arsenal Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Service working-capital fund and customer appropriations"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary concerned / Secretary of Defense as statute specifies"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized depot/arsenal commander and contracting/finance offices"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Private industrial partner",
      "Service legal counsel"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "Statutory CITE organizational responsibilities",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2474&num=0&edition=prelim"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Core-competency relationship",
    "No significant adverse readiness effect",
    "Private partner reimburses attributable direct/indirect costs and indemnifies subject to exceptions"
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Not blanket outsourcing of inherently governmental/core work",
    "Specific on-site nonfederal work exemption from 50/50 calculation is not repeal of depot restrictions"
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Receipts credited to cost-bearing appropriation/fund; statutory facility operations/maintenance/restoration uses."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Requirement sponsor → named planning office → resource owner and counsel → statutory approving official → authorized executing/contracting office.",
  "availability": "Conditional legal pathway; current funding, required determinations, and actual delegation not certified.",
  "confidence": "High on statutory permission; execution roles are organizational routing, not verified individual delegations.",
  "currentness": "2024 official U.S. Code operative text read; relevant amendments in Pub. L. 119-60 (Dec. 18, 2025), 119-21 and 119-103 examined. Rolling OLRC source consulted where retrievable; transaction-specific later-law and delegation confirmation remains necessary.",
  "family": "Logistics, depots and industrial partnerships",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "expand-production"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary concerned / Secretary of Defense as statute specifies"
    }
  ]
}