EconDefense
INT-27 / Security cooperation, assistance and education

Supply goods, equipment and services to reduce foreign WMD proliferation threats

Cooperative Threat Reduction supports weapons/material security, elimination, transport, bio-threat detection and partner contacts; emergent/urgent branches offer additional conditional flexibility.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-27 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense; urgent ungoverned-area branch requires President.

Other statutory tools

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

  • Authorized proliferation-reduction purpose; eligible agreements and legal country conditions.
  • Normally 15-day obligation notice; urgent statutory branch has specified findings and different notices.
  • Emergent projects generally completed within five years and DoD best capable, subject to statutory exception.

Limits & exclusions

  • §3711 permits goods/services/equipment but NOT direct cash funding of the foreign project/activity.
  • Urgent notwithstanding-law branch capped at 15% of fiscal-year CTR funds; not a general waiver for unrelated missions.

Funding conditions

  • CTR funds legally available; reimburse other U.S. agencies for participation where authorized.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

Resources

  • CTR appropriation/program account

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense
    Office profile
  • State concurrence; Energy concurrence for specified urgent governed-area branch
  • President for urgent ungoverned-area branch

Execution

  • DTRA CTR program and contracting offices

Partners & review

  • Foreign partner governments
  • State, Energy and other reimbursed federal agencies

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

Coordination pathway

WMD risk requirement → DTRA/CCMD and State/Energy → branch-specific findings/notice → DTRA acquisition/partner project.

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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