EconDefense
INT-20 / Security cooperation, assistance and education

Sell DoD stocks or procure defense articles/services for foreign customers

Government-to-government sales from stocks and procurement for cash sales, with recipient undertakings to meet costs and cancellation liabilities.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-20 · Contracts & purchases

Authority holder: President and Secretary of State statutory policy/supervision roles; DoD/DSCA executes authorized delegated sales.

Contracts & purchases

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

  • Eligible country/organization and end-use/retransfer assurances.
  • Price, advance-payment/dependable-undertaking rules; applicable §2776 congressional review.
  • Review combat readiness, release/security and export conditions.

Limits & exclusions

  • Not unilateral DoD foreign-policy financing discretion.
  • Personnel performing sold defense services may not perform combatant duties under §2761(c).
  • No presumption of authority to subsidize a purchaser’s costs.

Funding conditions

  • Purchaser/authorized assistance financing; relevant FMS trust/admin accounts and cost recovery.

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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

Approval

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

Execution

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

Partner/SCO request → IA case design and release → State/DSCA approvals/congressional process → LOA funding → Service/Agency contracting and delivery.

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.

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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