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INT-46 / Security cooperation, assistance and education

Provide foreign partners with digital learning content and necessary information technology

Supply internet-based education, distributed learning and computer-assisted exercise content together with software/IT needed to use it.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-46 · Security & information
Legal basis10 U.S.C. § 346

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence.

Security & information

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

  • Enhance multinational military interoperability and allied/friendly capabilities.
  • IT only to extent necessary to use the authorized learning content.
  • Follow issued utilization procedures; modifications must be reported within 30 days.

Limits & exclusions

  • Expressly subject to AECA and other applicable technology export controls.
  • Not general authority to equip foreign schools or businesses with IT unrelated to authorized content.

Funding conditions

  • Requires legally available funds; provision authority is not an appropriation.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Service/CCMD interoperability and distributed-learning sponsors
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Resources

  • Appropriate training/program appropriation holder

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense or valid delegate and Secretary of State concurrence
    Office profile
  • Export-control and foreign-disclosure officials

Execution

  • Authorized DoD education/training content and IT program offices
  • Warranted contracting offices where acquisition required
    Office profile

Partners & review

  • Friendly foreign government with its permission
  • Eligible foreign military and civilian personnel

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

Coordination pathway

Interoperability learning need → content/IT support design → partner permission and Defense-State/release approvals → eligible distribution.

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 §346 full body 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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