{
  "id": "OEC-07",
  "category": "Analytical-tool experimentation",
  "capability": "Prototype and validate due-diligence analytical tools",
  "summary": "Experiment with, prototype, test and validate government or commercial analytical tools, processes and tradecraft to improve DoD due diligence and investment analysis, including use of relevant delegated authorities vested in other components.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9025(c)(7)",
      "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": [
    "Tools, processes or tradecraft must improve DoD due diligence or investment analysis.",
    "Verify any relevant delegated authority used from another DoD or Federal component."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "The reference to delegated authorities does not establish a blanket OT power or prove that another component's power has been delegated to OEC."
  ],
  "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": "Research, innovation and experimentation",
  "supplement": "oec-2026-10-04",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-04",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "develop-technology",
    "prototype-to-use"
  ],
  "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": "research-innovation-and-experimentation",
  "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-07",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-04",
    "coverage": "implementation not verified",
    "summary": "No public tool, prototype contract or published OEC analytic-tool intake was located with an explicit connection to section 9025(c)(7).",
    "routes": [
      {
        "program": "OEC due-diligence tool experimentation duty",
        "administering_office": "Office of Expanded Competition within Office of the Secretary of the Air Force",
        "audience": "Internal OEC analysts and lawfully participating government partners",
        "relationship_type": "unverified",
        "eligibility": [
          {
            "text": "Work must improve defense due diligence or investment analysis and use a lawfully applicable instrument.",
            "source": {
              "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm",
              "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "published_on": "2024-12-23",
              "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf"
            }
          }
        ],
        "steps": [
          {
            "text": "Identify the actual project, funds and delegated authority before treating a vendor or tool as an OEC implementation.",
            "source": {
              "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm",
              "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "published_on": "2024-12-23",
              "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf"
            }
          }
        ],
        "status": {
          "label": "Statutory duty; public implementation not verified",
          "as_of": "2026-10-04",
          "text": "No specifically attributed public contract, operational tool or submission process was located.",
          "source": {
            "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition",
            "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm",
            "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)",
            "evidence_type": "statute",
            "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
            "published_on": "2024-12-23",
            "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf"
          }
        },
        "funding": [
          {
            "text": "No dedicated fund or available balance verified.",
            "kind": "statutory institutional duty",
            "period": "current allocation not verified",
            "source": {
              "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm",
              "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "published_on": "2024-12-23",
              "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf"
            }
          }
        ],
        "limits": [
          {
            "text": "EDU financial-data services and generic industrial-base analytics are not evidence of an OEC tie.",
            "source": {
              "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition",
              "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm",
              "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "published_on": "2024-12-23",
              "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf"
            }
          }
        ],
        "engagement": {
          "label": "OEC statutory duty",
          "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm",
          "type": "published guidance",
          "scope": "Reference only; not an application portal."
        },
        "relationship_to_authority": {
          "text": "The enacted duty covers analytic tools and tradecraft; it does not itself establish a specific delegated procurement instrument.",
          "source": {
            "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition",
            "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm",
            "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)",
            "evidence_type": "statute",
            "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
            "published_on": "2024-12-23",
            "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf"
          }
        }
      }
    ],
    "remaining_gaps": [
      "A public OEC project/contract/tool name, procurement authority, budget and intake remain unverified."
    ],
    "sources_checked": [
      {
        "title": "P.L.118-159 establishing Office of Expanded Competition",
        "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ159/html/PLAW-118publ159.htm",
        "locator": "Section924(a),10 U.S.C.9025(c)(7)",
        "evidence_type": "statute",
        "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
        "published_on": "2024-12-23",
        "source_id": "src-86d6894e18cf"
      }
    ],
    "research_scope": "Exact-office searches acrossAir Force/DoD/DoW and SAM-indexed public material; cross-checked another research agent findings. Excluded similarly named EDU activities and vendor claims without a corroborated OEC relationship."
  },
  "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-07/#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": "No public tool, prototype contract or published OEC analytic-tool intake was located with an explicit connection to section 9025(c)(7). Program check: 2026-10-04; see each route for intake status.",
      "url": "/capabilities/oec-07/#programs"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "The reference to delegated authorities does not establish a blanket OT power or prove that another component's power has been delegated to OEC."
}