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USC-66 / Security cooperation, assistance and education

Accept foreign contributions for multilateral security cooperation

Accept, manage and expend foreign-government money, defense articles or defense services for mutually agreed activities under specified security-cooperation authorities.

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Authority / instrument · USC-66

Multilateral partner contributions

Security cooperation, assistance and education

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence

What this does not authorize / hard limit

No bypass of underlying prohibitions, notifications, AECA or purposes Congress denied funding.

Recorded executor

Authorized security-cooperation and financial officials (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 recordedForeign contributions in designated account and separate country subaccounts; articles enter U.S. inventory. 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-66 · Cooperation & exchanges

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence

Cooperation & exchanges

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

  • Qualifying chapter 16, Taiwan Security Cooperation Initiative or P.L. 114-92 §1250 activity; mutually agreed purpose and country subaccounts.
  • Notify Congress within 48 hours of receipt; transmit covered instruments within 30 days; annual reports through 2030.

Limits & exclusions

  • Authority terminates December 31, 2029; contributed funds available for the following two fiscal years.
  • No bypass of underlying prohibitions, notifications, AECA or purposes Congress denied funding.

Funding conditions

  • Foreign contributions in designated account and separate country subaccounts; articles enter U.S. inventory.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • DoD security-cooperation sponsor (illustrative routing lead)

Resources

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

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence
    Office profile

Execution

  • Authorized security-cooperation and financial officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)

Partners & review

  • Department of State

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

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 recordedForeign contributions in designated account and separate country subaccounts; articles enter U.S. inventory. 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. Full §1208 note and December 31, 2029 termination read; current OLRC §301 index corroborates note.

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

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