Support partners facilitating authorized special-operations irregular warfare
- Objective
- Work with allies and partners
- Family / instrument
- Security cooperation, assistance and education · Irregular-warfare partner support
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense, with concurrence of the relevant Chief of Mission
- Executor · routing lead
- Authorized special-operations support and financial offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Support must facilitate ongoing and authorized U.S. SOF irregular warfare; follow prescribed vetting, legal-review, notification and reporting procedures.
Secretary funding authority is nondelegable; 15-day advance notice applies to initiation and changes meeting the lower of $500,000 or 10% funding threshold.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Annual DoD operation-and-maintenance amounts; authority alone supplies no appropriation.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Not authority to conduct covert action, introduce forces into hostilities, or undertake otherwise unauthorized military operations.
- Annual ceiling $20 million from DoD operation-and-maintenance funds.
- Statutory irregular warfare means activities not involving armed conflict; support cannot violate the laws of armed conflict.
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProgram unverified
Implementation caution: Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.
Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction. Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.
Actor sources
Independent public-source guide; not an official U.S. government website. Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Read the full record for currentness, coordination and all source notes.