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Intelligence, counterintelligence and security

Find the bounded financial, information-sharing or protection mechanisms that support authorized defense intelligence and security work.

Groups can overlap. Counts are records, not distinct statutory powers. Executing roles below are routing leads, not verified delegations.

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Other statutory tools

What this group is not: These pathways do not supply interchangeable powers or funds; each retains its own purpose, procedures and exclusions.

Basis: ACQ-43, FIN-01, FIN-11

Example limit · INT-42: Not unrestricted sale or release of classified or protected geospatial data.

Recorded executing roles: NGA geospatial partnerships, acquisition and financial offices

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INT-42 · Intelligence research and information partnerships

Exchange geospatial data and recycle map-sale receipts into foreign licensing fees

NGA can exchange/furnish mapping, charting and geomatics data/services under agreements and use map/publication sale proceeds for foreign data-acquisition fees.

What this is not / limit: Not unrestricted sale or release of classified or protected geospatial data.

Executing role: NGA geospatial partnerships, acquisition and financial offices

Cooperation & exchangesLicensing & IPFunds & shared servicesSecurity & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingPartial disclosure
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

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Security & information

What this group is not: Information and security tools do not create general police or commercial-investigation powers, or unrestricted release of protected data.

Basis: IND-07, IND-07, INT-36, INT-37, INT-42

Example limit · INT-30: Other funds cannot support a purpose Congress denied or principally benefit the United States.

Recorded executing roles: NSA/CSS and authorized cryptologic support resource/agreement offices; Authorized Military Department CI components; DIA counterintelligence program and fiscal offices; Only Defense elements authorized by implementing regulations; public transaction-level delegations not verified; MIP program finance officials; DIA NIP HUMINT/CI finance officials; Defense intelligence element comptrollers; DoD/Treasury accounting and payment organizations; DIA authorized partnership and finance offices; DCSA Industrial Security and CI/Insider Threat directorates; Service CI: ACIC, NCIS, AFOSI; DCMA/DCAA and program contracting offices as relevant; Properly authorized Defense CI/intelligence element and trained records-request officials; NSA research and grants offices; NGA geospatial partnerships, acquisition and financial offices

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INT-30 · Intelligence partnership finance

Finance foreign cryptologic-support arrangements

Pay expenses of foreign-country cryptologic arrangements with available intelligence/communications appropriations or qualifying other funds.

What this is not / limit: Other funds cannot support a purpose Congress denied or principally benefit the United States.

Executing role: NSA/CSS and authorized cryptologic support resource/agreement offices

Security & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingPartial disclosure
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

INT-31 · Counterintelligence operational finance

Reuse proceeds of authorized counterintelligence operations

Offset necessary/reasonable operation costs and exceptional performance awards with proceeds when appropriated funding would be impracticable.

What this is not / limit: Necessary/reasonable expenses must not otherwise be prohibited by law.

Executing role: Authorized Military Department CI components; DIA counterintelligence program and fiscal offices

Security & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingPartial disclosure
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

INT-32 · Intelligence commercial activities

Create and operate commercial arrangements to protect authorized foreign intelligence collection

Use ordinary commercial transactions, leases/employment contracts, financial accounts, permits and legal entities only as security for authorized DoD intelligence collection abroad.

What this is not / limit: Domestic acts only to support foreign intelligence; cannot use cover businesses to supply DoD domestically except needed for security of covered activity.

Executing role: Only Defense elements authorized by implementing regulations; public transaction-level delegations not verified

Security & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

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

INT-33 · Intelligence special expenditure

Pay confidential, extraordinary or emergency intelligence expenses

Use separate express expenditure mechanisms for MIP intelligence/CI and DIA NIP human-intelligence/CI purposes.

What this is not / limit: Different MIP/NIP authorities and bases must not be mixed.

Executing role: MIP program finance officials; DIA NIP HUMINT/CI finance officials

Security & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingPartial disclosure
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

INT-34 · Intelligence resource administration

Consolidate and transfer Defense intelligence appropriations into execution accounts

Establish intelligence-element transfer accounts, receive lawful DNI transfers and reimbursements, and refund balances to originating accounts.

What this is not / limit: No permission to reprogram to unrelated objects or evade appropriations controls.

Executing role: Defense intelligence element comptrollers; DoD/Treasury accounting and payment organizations

Security & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingParent context
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
EngagementRole recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

INT-35 · Intelligence partnership finance

Accept foreign funding for joint military intelligence collection and analysis

DIA may accept and spend partner contributions to share expenses of joint/combined military intelligence collection and analysis.

What this is not / limit: Cannot spend for a purpose Congress previously denied or acquire items/services solely for U.S. benefit.

Executing role: DIA authorized partnership and finance offices

Security & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingPartial disclosure
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

INT-36 · Industrial security and counterintelligence

Protect classified contractor information and mitigate foreign ownership risks

Conduct industrial-security functions, assist other agencies, and integrate DCSA FOCI assessment with acquisition responsibility, contract conditions and oversight.

What this is not / limit: DCSA is not a general regulator of every U.S. company or substitute for CFIUS.

Executing role: DCSA Industrial Security and CI/Insider Threat directorates; Service CI: ACIC, NCIS, AFOSI; DCMA/DCAA and program contracting offices as relevant

Security & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingScale documented
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

INT-37 · Financial intelligence support

Obtain narrowly authorized financial records or consumer reports for intelligence/counterterrorism

Invoke statutory financial-privacy exceptions for authorized foreign-intelligence/CI requests and the separate consumer-report disclosure power for authorized international-terrorism work.

What this is not / limit: 12 USC3414(a)(5) mandatory financial-institution compliance power is specifically FBI; do not infer identical compulsory bank-record power for DoD from(a)(1).

Executing role: Properly authorized Defense CI/intelligence element and trained records-request officials

Security & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
Actor sources & routing basis

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

INT-41 · Intelligence research and information partnerships

Fund cryptologic research by private individuals and institutions

NSA grants support cryptologic research under an agency-specific express statutory grant authority.

What this is not / limit: Cryptologic research purpose; not unrestricted business investment or general scholarship power.

Executing role: NSA research and grants offices

Security & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingPartial disclosure
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

INT-42 · Intelligence research and information partnerships

Exchange geospatial data and recycle map-sale receipts into foreign licensing fees

NGA can exchange/furnish mapping, charting and geomatics data/services under agreements and use map/publication sale proceeds for foreign data-acquisition fees.

What this is not / limit: Not unrestricted sale or release of classified or protected geospatial data.

Executing role: NGA geospatial partnerships, acquisition and financial offices

Cooperation & exchangesLicensing & IPFunds & shared servicesSecurity & information
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingPartial disclosure
Assigned rolesRemit sourced
Actor sources & routing basis

Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.

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