Create and operate commercial arrangements to protect authorized foreign intelligence collection
- Objective
- Protect technology and industry
- Family / instrument
- Intelligence, counterintelligence and security · Intelligence commercial activities
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense; prescribed delegations and SecDef/Deputy approval for sensitive activities.
- Executor · routing lead
- Only Defense elements authorized by implementing regulations; public transaction-level delegations not verified
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Underlying collection separately authorized; appropriate legal review.
Pre-coordinate with CIA; domestic aspects coordinated with FBI.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Generated funds offset minimum necessary/reasonable secure-operation costs; excess to Treasury.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Domestic acts only to support foreign intelligence; cannot use cover businesses to supply DoD domestically except needed for security of covered activity.
- Not authority for otherwise unauthorized intelligence, general commercial profit-seeking or broad economic intervention.
- Advance notice to U.S. persons in operational/managerial/supervisory positions.
- FY26 §430e vendor deconfliction/risk capability is an additional governance duty, not an expansion of substantive powers.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProgram-specific
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
- OUSD(I&S) organization: PREM, SASP, CL&S, Warfighter Support
- DIA Finance and Acquisition career field: programming, budgeting, allocating, contracting
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.