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USC-68 / Enterprise resources and shared execution

Partner with nonprofits for military museums and education

Enter nonprofit cooperative agreements supporting military museum or educational-institution programs; separately loan, gift or exchange qualifying historical/obsolete material with eligible recipients.

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Authority / instrument · USC-68

Museum and education partnerships

Enterprise resources and shared execution

Statute & instrument
Authority holder

Secretary concerned

What this does not authorize / hard limit

Not authority for unrestricted grants to for-profit partners; loan/gift/exchange conditions remain distinct.

Recorded executor

Authorized agreements and historical-property offices (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 recordedAvailable program funds; exchange consideration or recipient costs under the selected property route. 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-68 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: Secretary concerned

Other statutory tools

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

  • §2615 agreements must meet the §6305 cooperative-agreement instrument definition and be with nonprofit entities.
  • §2572 property must fit eligible historical/obsolete categories and recipients, under prescribed controls.

Limits & exclusions

  • Not authority for unrestricted grants to for-profit partners; loan/gift/exchange conditions remain distinct.
  • Applicable later disposition restrictions must be checked, including FY26 restrictions for covered WWII-era aircraft.

Funding conditions

  • Available program funds; exchange consideration or recipient costs under the selected property route.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Military museum or education sponsor (illustrative routing lead)

Resources

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

Approval

  • Secretary concerned

Execution

  • Authorized agreements and historical-property offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)

Partners & review

    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 recordedAvailable program funds; exchange consideration or recipient costs under the selected property route. 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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