B-09 / Strategic assessment
Protect critical firms and technology against hostile economic influence
Partner-dependent pathway
Existing pathway
DoD industrial-security/CI work, procurement exclusions and risk assessment can inform a broader response; investment screening and civilian investigation involve other authorities and actors.
What remains unresolved
DoD cannot infer an unrestricted civilian search, prosecution, asset-blocking or company-acquisition prohibition power from its security mission. Specific DoD investigative powers remain distinct. Separately, GAO documented industrial-security workforce, regional risk-analysis and IT implementation gaps; those are execution/resource-management findings, not proof of missing statutory powers.
Coordination or legislative question
Route the needed act to the competent interagency authority; only seek new DoD power if a defined residual requirement cannot be met through that lawful division of responsibilities.
Analytical mapping from the cited demand to statutory mechanisms; not a claim that the strategy expressly requests every possible mechanism.