Share military information, equipment, facilities and expertise with civilian law enforcement
- Objective
- Protect technology and industry
- Family / instrument
- Domestic and interagency support · Domestic interagency support
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense; requesting civilian agency retains its law-enforcement authority.
- Executor · routing lead
- Service/Defense Agency support providers
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Valid request and authorized support category; mission preparedness and applicable-law review.
Economy Act/other reimbursement unless statutory waiver conditions met.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Reimbursable support or narrow training/operations benefit waiver; no free general assistance fund.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Sharing normally collected information is not blanket permission to collect for civilian policing.
- §275 prohibits specified direct military searches, seizures, arrests or similar acts unless otherwise authorized by law.
- Posse Comitatus and other constitutional/statutory limits require separate application.
- §§282-283 normally bar direct arrest, evidence search/seizure and law-enforcement intelligence collection, with expressly bounded immediate-life-protection or otherwise-lawful exceptions; not general domestic police jurisdiction.
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.