Finance foreign cryptologic-support arrangements
Pay expenses of foreign-country cryptologic arrangements with available intelligence/communications appropriations or qualifying other funds.
Security & information
INT-42 / Intelligence, counterintelligence and security
Exchange geospatial data and recycle map-sale receipts into foreign licensing fees
NGA can exchange/furnish mapping, charting and geomatics data/services under agreements and use map/publication sale proceeds for foreign data-acquisition fees.
At a glance
Mission goalProtect technology and industry
Possible toolINT-42 · Cooperation & exchanges
Legal basis10 U.S.C. § 453
Responsible rolesPlanning · funds · approval · execution
Authority holder: Secretary of Defense authorizing NGA; Director NGA has specified withholding role.
Cooperation & exchangesLicensing & IPFunds & shared servicesSecurity & information
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
- Qualifying production/exchange agreement; NGO/academic exchanges concern areas outside United States.
- Pricing/release decisions and security/international-agreement restrictions.
Limits & exclusions
- Not unrestricted sale or release of classified or protected geospatial data.
- Proceeds authority is limited to foreign data-acquisition fees, not general reinvestment.
Funding conditions
- Express map-sale receipts availability for specified licensing fees; other activities need normal funds.
Who contributes what
Need & planning
- USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination
Office profile
Office profile
Office profile - Relevant Defense intelligence element mission sponsor
Resources
- NGA program funds
Office profile - Specified sale proceeds available for foreign data licensing
Approval
- Secretary of Defense or documented delegate
Office profile - NGA data-release/security officials
Office profile
Execution
- NGA geospatial partnerships, acquisition and financial offices
Office profile
Partners & review
- DNI for NIP matters
- Relevant CCMD J2 and Service intelligence staff
Office profile - FBI/CIA or State only where required by the activity
Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.
Coordination pathway
NGA requirement → data/partner and rights review → approved agreement/price → exchange or license-fee payment.
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. §454 OLRC indexed text through2026-09-29; full GovInfo2024 Chapter22 read.
Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.