Finance foreign cryptologic-support arrangements
- Objective
- Protect technology and industry
- Family / instrument
- Intelligence, counterintelligence and security · Intelligence partnership finance
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense.
- Executor · routing lead
- NSA/CSS and authorized cryptologic support resource/agreement offices
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Qualifying foreign cryptologic-support arrangement; intelligence-committee reporting.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Distinct appropriated and nonappropriated branches; account/receipt source must be validated.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Other funds cannot support a purpose Congress denied or principally benefit the United States.
- Sale proceeds restricted to similar replacement cryptologic items.
- Spending flexibility does not independently authorize intelligence collection methods.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingPartial disclosure
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
EngagementRoutes published
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.