Lease or loan defense articles to foreign partners
- Objective
- Work with allies and partners
- Family / instrument
- Security cooperation, assistance and education · Security assistance leasing
- Statute
- Authority holder
- President, with statutory State supervision and authorized DoD execution.
- Executor · routing lead
- DSCA-designated implementing agency; Army DASA(DE&C)/USASAC; Navy NIPO and systems commands; Air Force SAF/IA and implementing program offices as applicable
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
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.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Lessee payment of specified costs subject to narrow statutory exceptions; U.S. expenditures still require funds.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Cannot use ordinary 10 USC2667 property lease authority as substitute for foreign defense-article lease.
- Normally maximum five years plus specified refurbishment period; President can terminate and demand return.
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.