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title: "Chapter 8, the mission layer, due 31 December 2027 (limb 1 of 2) · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-20
description: "Chapter 8, the mission layer: due 31 December 2027."
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# Chapter 8, the mission layer

Due 31 December 2027

**The test.** The finding is undermined from the state’s side if Congress enacts a continuity or compulsion statute, one that requires a supplier to keep serving the state or to license lawful uses on demand, or if the Defense Production Act is invoked against a model’s maker and upheld; the Act’s authorities terminate on 11 December 2026 unless extended, and if they lapse unrenewed that limb is unscored.

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From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

**Falls due:** 31 December 2027

**Read on:** The statute, or the invocation and any ruling on it; the Act’s extension

**Chapter:** [Chapter 8 — The Arsenal Behind Every Arsenal](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-8)The state as customer: how the Pentagon buys frontier AI, the contract clauses a laboratory fought over, and what the courts said about a company that would not sign.

## Filings that bear on it

- [The Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended, 50 U.S.C. 4501 and following, in FEMA’s compilation current through 13 August 2018, with s. 717 as amended to 2 September 2026](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/filings/dpa-fema-compilation)The Defense Production Act lets the President require that contracts he deems necessary for national defense take priority over any other, and most of it now ends on 11 December 2026 unless extended again.

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- Person [Raimondo, Gina](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people#raimondo-gina)
- Chapter notes [Chapter 8 — The Arsenal Behind Every Arsenal](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-8)

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