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INT-19 / Security cooperation, assistance and education

Conduct National Guard State Partnerships and share activity costs

Establish National Guard partnerships with foreign military, security and disaster/emergency organizations and pay eligible U.S. and foreign incremental costs.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-19 · Cooperation & exchanges
Legal basis10 U.S.C. § 341

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence; Chief of National Guard Bureau designates state/territory coordinators.

Cooperation & exchanges

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • National-security-interest finding and 15-day notice for covered nonmilitary-security/disaster activities.
  • Members participating abroad must be in active-duty armed-forces status under this authority.
  • Unit human-rights restriction §362 applies.
  • FY26 §1206 requires partnership selection analysis to account for existing State partnerships and Guard capacity.

Limits & exclusions

  • Not authority for State governments independently to conduct U.S. foreign policy.
  • Foreign incremental-expense aggregate statutory cap applies.

Funding conditions

  • Available DoD/Guard program appropriations; foreign expense cap is not an allocation.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners
    Office profile
  • Embassy SCO and Chief of Mission country team

Resources

  • DoD/National Guard funds legally available for program

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense or documented authorized delegate
    Office profile
  • Secretary of State where required

Execution

  • National Guard Bureau
  • State/territory National Guard partnership coordinators

Partners & review

  • Foreign partner government
  • Department of State
  • Export-control/foreign-disclosure officials

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

SCO/CCMD partnership priority → NGB/state coordinator → Defense-State approval → eligible status and funded activity.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

Confidence: High on express statutory capability; execution/delegation and currently available resources require program-specific confirmation.

Currentness: GovInfo 2024 U.S. Code baseline read; relevant FY2026 NDAA (Pub. L. 119-60, enacted 2025-12-18) amendments reviewed. Target 2026-10-02; source-specific OLRC checks and remaining delta are documented in international.md. No certification of current funds or executed delegations. FY26 §1206 statutory selection-analysis requirement read.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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