Pay narrowly authorized emergency and extraordinary expenses
- Objective
- Choose a mission objective
- Family / instrument
- Enterprise resources and shared execution · Emergency expenditure authority
- Statute
- Authority holder
- Secretary of Defense, DoD Inspector General, or military-department Secretary within the statutory scope
- Executor · routing lead
- Authorized financial and approving officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)
Recorded eligibility gates (excerpt)
Use only appropriations made for the purpose and follow congressional notices, waiting periods and annual reporting.All requirements & limits
Recorded funding condition (excerpt)
Purpose-specific available appropriations; not open-ended authority to override funding limits.All funding conditions
What this does not authorize / limits
Ordinary expenditures above $500,000 trigger advance notice; more than $1 million ordinarily requires 15 days, otherwise 5 days.
- Military Intelligence Program confidential intelligence expenses use §429a instead; emergency notification exceptions require statutory findings.
- For non-MIP intelligence/counterintelligence expenditures under §127, amounts over $100,000 require defense and intelligence committee notice and 15 days; extraordinary national-security waiver requires written notice and justification within 48 hours.
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.