{
  "id": "OEC-08",
  "category": "Commercial access and placement support",
  "capability": "Assist commercial access and placement",
  "summary": "Assist the Secretary of Defense in developing access and placement through commercial means.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. §9025(c)(8)",
      "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": [
      "Secretary of Defense",
      "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 activity must assist the Secretary of Defense with the function assigned by §9025(c)(8).",
    "Resolve the specific implementation, lawful instrument, funding and approval requirements for the proposed activity."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "This brief duty does not by itself establish an unrestricted intelligence, covert-action or commercial-transaction 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": "Enterprise resources and shared execution",
  "supplement": "oec-2026-10-04",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-04",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "funding-execution"
  ],
  "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"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "enterprise-resources-and-shared-execution",
  "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-08",
    "checked_on": "2026-10-04",
    "coverage": "implementation not verified",
    "summary": "The OEC duty is enacted, but research did not verify a distinct public implementation route for commercial access and placement. Related offices are not presumed to execute it.",
    "routes": [
      {
        "program": "OEC commercial access and placement — statutory duty only",
        "administering_office": "Office of Expanded Competition within the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force; current transaction assignment unverified",
        "audience": "Government officials; no public applicant category verified",
        "relationship_type": "unverified",
        "eligibility": [
          {
            "text": "Apply the assigned duty together with the actual activity’s separate substantive authority, approvals and restrictions.",
            "source": {
              "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)",
              "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
              "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
            }
          }
        ],
        "steps": [],
        "funding": [
          {
            "text": "Section9025 does not identify a dedicated appropriation or available balance for this duty.",
            "source": {
              "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)",
              "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
              "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
            },
            "kind": "Funding not established",
            "period": "Statutory conditions; no available balance established"
          }
        ],
        "limits": [
          {
            "text": "Coordination or commercial means do not confer another component’s powers, unrestricted intelligence authority or permission to transfer its funds.",
            "source": {
              "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)",
              "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
              "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions",
              "evidence_type": "statute",
              "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
              "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
            }
          }
        ],
        "status": {
          "label": "Implementation not verified",
          "as_of": "2026-10-04",
          "text": "No public implementing instruction, authorized transaction form, delegation or attributable project was found.",
          "source": {
            "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)",
            "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
            "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions",
            "evidence_type": "statute",
            "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
            "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
          }
        },
        "relationship_to_authority": {
          "text": "The subsection assigns a duty; no public evidence establishes an OEC–EDU–OSC execution chain for it.",
          "source": {
            "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)",
            "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
            "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions",
            "evidence_type": "statute",
            "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
            "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
          }
        },
        "engagement": {
          "label": "Read the governing source",
          "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
          "type": "reference, not an application portal",
          "scope": "This source does not accept funding applications."
        }
      }
    ],
    "remaining_gaps": [
      "No public implementing instruction, authorized transaction form, delegation or attributable project was found.",
      "Current delegated signer, lawful instrument, resource owner and a verifiable engagement channel remain unresolved."
    ],
    "research_scope": "Searched the specific OEC duty, § 9025, Air Force/Defense public implementation references and the enacted § 924 briefing requirement; no public program-specific bridge was found. Absence from this search is not proof no internal activity exists.",
    "sources_checked": [
      {
        "title": "10 U.S.C. § 9025(c)(8)",
        "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section9025&num=0&edition=prelim",
        "locator": "§ 9025(c)(8) and subsection(d) definitions",
        "evidence_type": "statute",
        "retrieved_on": "2026-10-04",
        "source_id": "src-0b0111e78e6a"
      }
    ]
  },
  "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-08/#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 OEC duty is enacted, but research did not verify a distinct public implementation route for commercial access and placement. Related offices are not presumed to execute it. Program check: 2026-10-04; see each route for intake status.",
      "url": "/capabilities/oec-08/#programs"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "This brief duty does not by itself establish an unrestricted intelligence, covert-action or commercial-transaction authority."
}