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USC-63 / Security cooperation, assistance and education

Furnish grant or loan military assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act

Acquire and furnish defense articles/services by loan or grant, assign noncombatant DoD personnel, or transfer military-assistance funds to eligible recipients’ FMS payment accounts.

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Authority / instrument · USC-63

Foreign Assistance Act military assistance

Security cooperation, assistance and education

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

President; State foreign-policy supervision; Secretary of Defense for assigned military-assistance execution

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Article loans require a bona fide reason beyond funding shortage, expected return, fixed term no more than five years and damage/loss reimbursement terms.

Recorded executor

Authorized DoD implementing agency (illustrative; delegation not verified)

Continue to actor →

Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedApplicable military-assistance funds and statutory reimbursements; no present appropriation certified. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Public evidence describes the institution and instrument; it is not approval of an individual transaction.

At a glance

Possible toolUSC-63 · Grants & cooperative agreements

Authority holder: President; State foreign-policy supervision; Secretary of Defense for assigned military-assistance execution

Grants & cooperative agreementsLoans & guarantees

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

Availability and verification

Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Eligible friendly country/organization; presidential security/world-peace finding and applicable end-use, security and retransfers assurances.

Limits & exclusions

  • Article loans require a bona fide reason beyond funding shortage, expected return, fixed term no more than five years and damage/loss reimbursement terms.
  • Separate from excess-defense-article and emergency drawdown authorities; not autonomous DoD foreign aid.

Funding conditions

  • Applicable military-assistance funds and statutory reimbursements; no present appropriation certified.

Read the funding and execution guide

Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • State and DoD military-assistance sponsor (illustrative routing lead)

Resources

  • Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified
    Office profile

Approval

  • President; State foreign-policy supervision; Secretary of Defense for assigned military-assistance execution
    Office profile

Execution

  • Authorized DoD implementing agency (illustrative; delegation not verified)

Partners & review

  • Department of State
  • DSCA

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

Coordination pathway

Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.

Actor and execution-role sources

October 5 statutory review

Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified.

Section coverage and review findings

Legal basis

  • 22 U.S.C. § 2311Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks.
  • 22 U.S.C. § 2314Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks.
  • 22 U.S.C. § 2382Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks.
  • 22 U.S.C. § 2383Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks.

What this research establishes

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedApplicable military-assistance funds and statutory reimbursements; no present appropriation certified. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Confidence: High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.

Currentness: Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.

Review scope: Record reviewed 2026-10-05. Publication is not legal-currentness certification.

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