{
  "id": "OEC-03",
  "category": "Investment funding",
  "capability": "Fund investments in critical technologies and assets",
  "summary": "Fund investments in the critical technologies and assets identified for the Joint Force, including supply-chain technologies not always supported through direct investment.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9025(c)(3)",
      "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": [
    "Connect the investment to the technologies and assets described in §9025(c)(2).",
    "Identify the transaction form, applicable requirements, lawful funds, and authorized signatory before execution."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "This is an express investment-funding duty, not merely coordination; the subsection does not specify an unrestricted direct-equity portfolio or particular financing instrument.",
    "No dedicated appropriation, available balance, or individual transaction delegation is established by this record."
  ],
  "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": [
    "Investment & capital"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology",
    "expand-production"
  ],
  "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": [
    "Investment & capital"
  ],
  "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-03",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-04",
    "coverage": "implementation not verified",
    "summary": "The statute expressly includes funding investments. A standalone public OEC investment product, funding allocation and applicant process were not verified.",
    "routes": [
      {
        "program": "OEC investment-funding duty",
        "administering_office": "Office of Expanded Competition, Office of the Secretary of the Air Force",
        "audience": "Entities/technologies relevant to the statutory mission; operational applicant eligibility not verified.",
        "eligibility": [
          {
            "text": "Statutory scope includes promising critical technologies/assets and, for capital assistance, foreign entities; this is not a published program eligibility checklist.",
            "source": {
              "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
              "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
            }
          }
        ],
        "steps": [
          {
            "text": "Obtain implementing instrument, program owner and submission process before presenting an application route.",
            "source": {
              "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
              "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
            }
          }
        ],
        "funding": [
          {
            "text": "Dedicated program amount and remaining balance not verified; a statutory duty is not an appropriation.",
            "kind": "Funding evidence not verified",
            "period": "Checked October 4, 2026",
            "source": {
              "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
              "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
            }
          }
        ],
        "limits": [
          {
            "text": "No chosen instrument, current delegation or open intake is established by this duty alone.",
            "source": {
              "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
              "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
            }
          }
        ],
        "status": {
          "label": "Implementation not verified",
          "as_of": "2026-10-04",
          "text": "No standalone public notice or intake was verified in targeted Air Force, DoD/DoW and SAM searches. This is not proof that none exists.",
          "source": {
            "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition",
            "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
            "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026",
            "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
            "evidence_type": "statute",
            "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
          }
        },
        "engagement": {
          "label": "OEC statutory remit",
          "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
          "type": "legal reference",
          "scope": "No verified standalone submission portal. Do not substitute OSC, EDU or a generic contracting contact as OEC intake."
        },
        "relationship_to_authority": {
          "text": "The recorded duty is 10 U.S.C. 9025(c)(3). It does not establish independent current award authority.",
          "source": {
            "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition",
            "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
            "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026",
            "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
            "evidence_type": "statute",
            "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
          }
        },
        "relationship_type": "unverified"
      }
    ],
    "remaining_gaps": [
      "Needed: implementing delegation/instrument, program owner, appropriation/account link, eligibility and public intake (if any).",
      "Primary search scope: exact office name with investment/capital/apply terms on af.mil, war.gov/defense.gov and sam.gov; statutory and production OSC pages checked. No personal LinkedIn claims used."
    ],
    "sources_checked": [
      {
        "title": "10 U.S.C. 9025 — Office of Expanded Competition",
        "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
        "locator": "Subsections (a), (c)(2)–(7), (d)(2); official indexed text through September 11, 2026",
        "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
        "evidence_type": "statute",
        "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
      },
      {
        "title": "Public Law 118-159",
        "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm",
        "locator": "Section 1092 National Security Capital Forum; section 924 OEC",
        "published_on": "2024-12-23",
        "evidence_type": "statute",
        "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
        "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf"
      },
      {
        "title": "OSC production homepage",
        "url": "https://www.cto.mil/osc/",
        "locator": "September 28, 2026 transaction-counsel extension announcement",
        "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
        "evidence_type": "official program guidance",
        "source_id": "src-c7a643a4d169"
      }
    ],
    "research_scope": "The first program-depth pass checked the cited program pages, notices and legal framework. Evidence is limited to the named routes and source-access notes; it does not establish every implementation of the statute."
  },
  "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-03/#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": "The statute expressly includes funding investments. A standalone public OEC investment product, funding allocation and applicant process were not verified. Program check: 2026-10-04; see each route for intake status.",
      "url": "/capabilities/oec-03/#programs"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "This is an express investment-funding duty, not merely coordination; the subsection does not specify an unrestricted direct-equity portfolio or particular financing instrument."
}