Other Transactions authority (10 U.S.C. 2371)

A DoD funding mechanism, invented by DARPA in 1989 under 10 U.S.C. Section 2371, for agreements "for purposes other than procurement or assistance" — a legal instrument distinct from, and less closely overseen than, ordinary federal contracts or grants. DARPA used it heavily through the early 1990s. It matters to this vault as the specific, checkable legal mechanism behind two surface-dissimilar DoD-funded cases — Nestor Inc.'s neural-chip research and AC Gravity LLC's antigravity grant — showing a shared institutional funding culture rather than a shared research subject. Flagged as a candidate entity in a 2026-07-21 capture and left unpromoted until this session.

References

• claim-10-usc-2371-other-transactions-authority-funds-outside-standard-procurement
• claim-nestor-inc-commercialized-neural-nets-through-ai-winter
• claim-ac-gravity-llc-took-dod-antigravity-grant-and-published-nothing
• observation-dod-other-transactions-authority-is-real-nestor-ac-gravity-bridge