EconDefense
INT-22 / Security cooperation, assistance and education

Lease or loan defense articles to foreign partners

Provide temporary access to qualifying DoD stocks under AECA leasing or separate authorized assistance-loan pathways.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-22 · Loans & guarantees

Authority holder: President, with statutory State supervision and authorized DoD execution.

Loans & guaranteesProperty & leases

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

  • Compelling reasons for lease rather than sale; articles not currently needed for public use.
  • Industrial-base effects considered; cost/depreciation/damage-return terms unless specific exception.
  • Congressional certification and 15/30-day wait for leases of one year or more.

Limits & exclusions

  • Normally maximum five years plus specified refurbishment period; President can terminate and demand return.
  • Cannot use ordinary 10 USC2667 property lease authority as substitute for foreign defense-article lease.

Funding conditions

  • Lessee payment of specified costs subject to narrow statutory exceptions; U.S. expenditures still require funds.

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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 gap → Service stock/readiness review → DSCA/State and required finding → Congress → lease and custody/end-use control.

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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