EconDefense
INT-40 / Domestic and interagency support

Let States and localities buy eligible equipment through DoD

Provide a purchasing channel for counterdrug, homeland-security and emergency-response equipment procured by DoD for its own purposes.

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Authority / instrument · INT-40

State and local acquisition support

Domestic and interagency support

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of Defense in coordination with GSA.

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Not free grant/transfer authority or authority to acquire products DoD never buys for itself.

Recorded executor

DoD eligible procurement channels and contracting officers

Continue to actor →

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedThe record states funding rules and conditions; no program amount is attributed to this action.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementRole recordedRecorded executing role: DoD eligible procurement channels and contracting officers. Use the responsible program’s process.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

Possible toolINT-40 · Other statutory tools
Legal basis10 U.S.C. § 281

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense in coordination with GSA.

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

  • Equipment on applicable catalog; requested through State process and advance payment.
  • Homeland-security equipment also meets DHS Authorized Equipment List condition.

Limits & exclusions

  • Not free grant/transfer authority or authority to acquire products DoD never buys for itself.
  • Purchaser arranges and pays shipment and administrative costs.

Funding conditions

  • Purchaser funds equipment/admin costs in advance.

Read the funding and execution guide

Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • State program coordinator and local requestor

Resources

  • Purchasing State/local government advance payment

Approval

  • DoD program officials under prescribed procedures
  • Governor/state process for local requests

Execution

  • DoD eligible procurement channels and contracting officers
    Office profile

Partners & review

  • GSA
  • DHS equipment-list authority
  • State/local/tribal eligible agencies

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

Coordination pathway

Local/State need → State coordinator/catalog eligibility → advance funds → DoD purchase and purchaser shipment.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedThe record states funding rules and conditions; no program amount is attributed to this action.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementRole recordedRecorded executing role: DoD eligible procurement channels and contracting officers. Use the responsible program’s process.

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.

Review scope: Original research target October 2, 2026; no record-specific last-review date supplied. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.

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