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INT-45 / Security cooperation, assistance and education

Share multinational education-center operating costs, facilities and personnel support

Fund U.S. participation and a share of operating costs at eligible multinational centers of excellence; furnish facilities, supplies, services and faculty support to the Inter-American Defense College.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-45 · Other statutory tools
Legal basis10 U.S.C. § 344

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence for required agreements.

Other statutory tools

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Existing statutory pathway; program-specific approvals, eligible recipients, actual appropriations and delegations remain necessary.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Formal memorandum specifying cost sharing when DoD funds/facilities/equipment used.
  • New §344 center participation requires 30-day congressional notice.
  • Inter-American Defense College MOU includes curriculum and academic development plan.

Limits & exclusions

  • These sections do not finance pay/salaries of participating U.S. military/civilian employees.
  • Centers must fit statutory definition; no general authority to endow arbitrary foreign think tanks.
  • Developing-country reimbursement waiver for Inter-American Defense College requires national-security-interest determination.

Funding conditions

  • O&M may pay covered operating and participation/support costs, not the excluded salaries.
  • §351 permits covered fiscal-year-start activities to end in next fiscal year.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

Resources

  • Purpose-available DoD operation and maintenance account holder

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State agreement concurrence
    Office profile

Execution

  • Designated supporting Service or Defense component
  • Eligible multinational center or Inter-American Defense College support offices

Partners & review

  • NATO-accredited centers, European Centre for Countering Hybrid Threats, International Special Training Centre
  • Inter-American Defense Board

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

Coordination pathway

Interoperability/academic requirement → sponsoring component → State-concurred MOU/cost sharing → required notice and resource certification → center support.

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 statutory capability; implementation and available resources not certified.

Currentness: GovInfo2024 §§344 and351 full bodies read; FY26 NDAA text searched for amendments. Target October 2, 2026; later enactment delta not certified.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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