{
  "id": "OEC-01",
  "category": "Adversarial-capital assessment",
  "capability": "Assess adversarial capital flows into defense-relevant businesses",
  "summary": "Assess investments from governments of adversary countries, or entities organized under their laws or otherwise subject to their jurisdiction, in industries or businesses of interest to DoD, in consultation with other DoD and Federal components.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9025(c)(1), (d)(1)",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Office duty; read the subsection and definitions together.",
      "alternate_source": {
        "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/pdf/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partI-chap903-sec9025.pdf",
        "label": "2024 edition (GovInfo)",
        "note": "Official historical edition; later laws may amend this text. Not a current-law certification."
      }
    },
    {
      "citation": "P.L. 118-159 §924(a)",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted text establishing §9025."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Office of Expanded Competition within the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force; headed by the OEC Director",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Office of Expanded Competition"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Funding account and responsible resource owner not verified"
    ],
    "approver": [],
    "executor": [
      "Office of Expanded Competition Director"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Relevant DoD and Federal components"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. §9025(a)–(c): organizational placement, Director and duties",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "alternate_source": {
        "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/pdf/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleD-partI-chap903-sec9025.pdf",
        "label": "2024 edition (GovInfo)",
        "note": "Official historical edition; later laws may amend this text. Not a current-law certification."
      }
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "The investment must fall within the adversarial-capital-flow definition in §9025(d)(1).",
    "Consult other DoD and Federal components."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Assessment is not a standalone power to block investments, compel disclosures, or exercise CFIUS authority."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "§9025 does not specify a dedicated appropriation or available balance. Identify legally available funds and the fiscal conditions of the proposed action."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Office of Expanded Competition → relevant DoD or Federal partner → identify the applicable instrument, lawful funds and authorized approving/executing official. No transaction-specific signature authority is verified.",
  "availability": "Statutory duty recorded; operating procedures, current funding, individual delegation and public intake have not been verified.",
  "confidence": "High on the cited statutory duty. Family placement is editorial; executor is an organizational routing lead, not a verified individual delegation.",
  "currentness": "Added October 4, 2026. Enacted §9025 text in P.L. 118-159 §924 retrieved; official OLRC search-index text through September 2026 corroborated it while the direct page was under maintenance. Targeted P.L. 119-60 text search found no §9025 or Office of Expanded Competition reference. This is not exhaustive later-law certification.",
  "family": "Industrial capacity, capital and credit",
  "supplement": "oec-2026-10-04",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-04",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "technology-protection"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "expanded-competition",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "Office of Expanded Competition"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "expanded-competition",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Office of Expanded Competition Director"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "industrial-capacity-capital-and-credit",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "expanded-competition",
    "name": "Office of Expanded Competition",
    "label": "Office of Expanded Competition Director",
    "url": "/offices/expanded-competition/",
    "basis": "Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes."
  },
  "program_context": [],
  "program_research": {
    "record_id": "OEC-01",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-04",
    "coverage": "implementation not verified",
    "summary": "OEC’s adversarial-capital assessment duty is enacted, but an official operating procedure, contact or public program for this duty was not verified.",
    "routes": [
      {
        "program": "Office of Expanded Competition — adversarial-capital assessment",
        "administering_office": "Statutory office within Office of Secretary of the Air Force; current operational contact/designation not independently verified.",
        "audience": "Internal government coordination function; no verified external application program.",
        "relationship_type": "unverified",
        "eligibility": [
          {
            "text": "The investment must fall within the adversarial-capital-flow definition in § 9025(d)(1).",
            "source": {
              "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
              "locator": "§ 9025(c)(1)",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.",
              "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
            }
          }
        ],
        "steps": [
          {
            "text": "The statute assigns this duty to OEC. No public office-specific intake procedure or operational manual was located in the checked sources.",
            "source": {
              "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
              "locator": "§ 9025(c)(1); bounded search finding",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.",
              "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
            }
          }
        ],
        "status": {
          "label": "Statutory duty; implementation not verified",
          "as_of": "2026-10-04",
          "text": "The enacted office/duty is verified; public evidence of the specific operational workflow, named program or award was not found.",
          "source": {
            "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition",
            "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
            "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note",
            "evidence_type": "statute",
            "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
            "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.",
            "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
          }
        },
        "funding": [
          {
            "text": "Section9025 states duties but provides no dedicated appropriation or available award balance.",
            "source": {
              "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
              "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.",
              "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
            },
            "kind": "statutory duty, not appropriation",
            "period": "Published process; checked 2026-10-04"
          }
        ],
        "limits": [
          {
            "text": "Assessment is not a standalone power to block investments, compel disclosures, or exercise CFIUS authority.",
            "source": {
              "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
              "locator": "§ 9025(c)(1)",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.",
              "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
            }
          }
        ],
        "engagement": {
          "label": "OEC statutory duties",
          "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
          "type": "legal reference",
          "scope": "Not a program portal, award announcement or verified contact route."
        },
        "relationship_to_authority": {
          "text": "Direct statutory basis for the duty only; no additional implemented-program linkage asserted.",
          "source": {
            "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition",
            "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
            "locator": "§ 9025(c)(1)",
            "evidence_type": "statute",
            "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
            "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.",
            "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
          }
        }
      }
    ],
    "remaining_gaps": [
      "Searches returned statute/conference text and an unverified self-reported personnel profile, not an official implementation or award record.",
      "Do not substitute OSC,AFWERX,CFIUS or EDU activity for proof of OEC implementation."
    ],
    "sources_checked": [
      {
        "title": "10 USC9025 Office of Expanded Competition",
        "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
        "locator": "Subsections(a)–(d); P.L.118-159§ 924(b) implementation briefing note",
        "evidence_type": "statute",
        "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
        "retrieval_note": "Official indexed full text read; page showed laws in effect September 11, 2026.",
        "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
      },
      {
        "title": "FY 2025 NDAA joint explanatory material",
        "url": "https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20241209/FY25%20NDAA%20JOINT%20EXPLANATORY%20MATERIAL%20FINAL.pdf",
        "locator": "Sec.924—Establishment of Office of Expanded Competition",
        "evidence_type": "legislative explanatory material",
        "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
        "retrieval_note": "2024 conference explanatory material; precise publication date not asserted.",
        "source_id": "src-b567845d19d8"
      }
    ],
    "research_scope": "Exact-name searches acrossaf.mil/mil and broaderweb for Office of Expanded Competition + director/capital/investment/2026; reviewed OLRC and conference explanation. Self-reported LinkedIn profile not used as delegation evidence."
  },
  "implementation_caution": "",
  "checks": [
    {
      "key": "legal",
      "label": "Legal basis",
      "state": "Sources linked",
      "detail": "Legal sources and instrument limits are recorded."
    },
    {
      "key": "eligibility",
      "label": "Requirements",
      "state": "Gates recorded",
      "detail": "Read the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action."
    },
    {
      "key": "funds",
      "label": "Public funding",
      "state": "Scope documented",
      "detail": "§9025 does not specify a dedicated appropriation or available balance. Identify legally available funds and the fiscal conditions of the proposed action. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/oec-01/#funding"
    },
    {
      "key": "delegation",
      "label": "Assigned roles",
      "state": "Remit sourced",
      "detail": "Public sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.",
      "url": "/offices/expanded-competition/#institutional-authority"
    },
    {
      "key": "execution",
      "label": "Engagement",
      "state": "Program unverified",
      "detail": "OEC’s adversarial-capital assessment duty is enacted, but an official operating procedure, contact or public program for this duty was not verified. Program check: 2026-10-04; see each route for intake status.",
      "url": "/capabilities/oec-01/#programs"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "Assessment is not a standalone power to block investments, compel disclosures, or exercise CFIUS authority."
}