Conduct National Guard State Partnerships and share activity costs
- Objective
- Work with allies and partners
- Family / instrument
- Security cooperation, assistance and education · Security cooperation
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence; Chief of National Guard Bureau designates state/territory coordinators.
- Executor · routing lead
- National Guard Bureau; State/territory National Guard partnership coordinators
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
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.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Available DoD/Guard program appropriations; foreign expense cap is not an allocation.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Not authority for State governments independently to conduct U.S. foreign policy.
- Foreign incremental-expense aggregate statutory cap applies.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.
Actor sources
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Original research target October 2, 2026; published October 3, 2026. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.