INT-14 · Security cooperationBuild partner capacity with defense articles/services, training, supplies and small-scale construction for nine listed missions, including military intelligence and defensive cyber.
What this is not / limit: Limited statutory mission menu; not unrestricted economic aid.
Executing role: DSCA-designated implementing agency; Army DASA(DE&C)/USASAC; Navy NIPO and systems commands; Air Force SAF/IA and implementing program offices as applicable
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Assign advisors/trainers to build ministries’ governance, internal controls, resource-management and core defense competencies.
What this is not / limit: Defense institution remit, not general economic administration of foreign countries.
Executing role: DSCA and Defense Security Cooperation University institutional-capacity-building implementers; Assigned DoD civilian/military advisors and approved support contractors
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Train U.S. forces with friendly military or similar-function national security forces and pay permitted exercise, partner and small-construction costs; special-operations training has a separate path.
What this is not / limit: Not substitute for §333 partner-capacity assistance where principal purpose differs.
Executing role: Service units and exercise contracting/support offices; USSOCOM/theater special operations commands for §322
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Reciprocal or nonreciprocal exchanges, R&D assignments to supporting foreign industry, and narrowly eligible cooperation travel/liaison support.
What this is not / limit: No oath of allegiance or official capacity in host government under §311.
Executing role: Service personnel/international offices; Host headquarters support and travel offices
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Establish National Guard partnerships with foreign military, security and disaster/emergency organizations and pay eligible U.S. and foreign incremental costs.
What this is not / limit: Not authority for State governments independently to conduct U.S. foreign policy.
Executing role: National Guard Bureau; State/territory National Guard partnership coordinators
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Provide temporary access to qualifying DoD stocks under AECA leasing or separate authorized assistance-loan pathways.
What this is not / limit: Cannot use ordinary 10 USC2667 property lease authority as substitute for foreign defense-article lease.
Executing role: DSCA-designated implementing agency; Army DASA(DE&C)/USASAC; Navy NIPO and systems commands; Air Force SAF/IA and implementing program offices as applicable
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Use excess-defense-article grants/sales or Presidential drawdowns under distinct statutory triggers.
What this is not / limit: EDA is not authority to buy new equipment for transfer from DoD procurement funds.
Executing role: DSCA and Service/DLA property owners; Supporting transportation and training organizations
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Perform limited medical/veterinary care, rudimentary public works, water/sanitation and related assistance serving basic civilian needs; broader humanitarian assistance has a separate funding pathway.
What this is not / limit: §401 may not directly or indirectly aid groups engaged in military/paramilitary activity.
Executing role: Service engineering/medical forces and designated implementers; DSCA humanitarian-assistance program offices
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Carry nongovernmental relief supplies on a space-available basis or, when directed by the President, provide transport, supplies, services and equipment for foreign disasters.
What this is not / limit: §402 aid not for military/paramilitary recipients.
Executing role: USTRANSCOM/Service transportation and disaster-response elements
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Provide humanitarian demining and stockpiled conventional-munitions technical assistance, training, equipment and support.
What this is not / limit: U.S. members generally cannot physically detect, lift or destroy mines under this authority unless concurrently supporting a U.S. military operation.
Executing role: Service humanitarian mine-action teams; Designated training/technical assistance and contracting offices
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Cooperative Threat Reduction supports weapons/material security, elimination, transport, bio-threat detection and partner contacts; emergent/urgent branches offer additional conditional flexibility.
What this is not / limit: §3711 permits goods/services/equipment but NOT direct cash funding of the foreign project/activity.
Executing role: DTRA CTR program and contracting offices
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Support other U.S. agencies’ foreign-assistance activities necessary to effectiveness of DoD Chapter16 programs and beyond DoD’s own authority.
What this is not / limit: Does not transfer another agency’s legal powers to DoD.
Executing role: Receiving U.S. agency with its own substantive authority; DoD/DSCA transfer and program-monitoring offices
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Provide eligible material or financial support to foreign forces, irregular forces, groups or individuals supporting authorized U.S. SOF operations.
What this is not / limit: Not authorization for covert action or for introduction into hostilities; no support inconsistent with law of armed conflict.
Executing role: Authorized special operations program execution and support offices
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Host bilateral and multilateral research, discussion and training; pay eligible participant costs, receive reimbursements, and use specified grants/contracts/cooperative agreements for Irregular Warfare Center higher-education partnerships.
What this is not / limit: Cannot designate an unlisted institution as a §342 Regional Center.
Executing role: Six statutory Regional Centers; Irregular Warfare Center and Defense Security Cooperation University contracting/grants offices
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Fund U.S. participation and a share of operating costs at eligible multinational centers of excellence; furnish facilities, supplies, services and faculty support to the Inter-American Defense College.
What this is not / limit: These sections do not finance pay/salaries of participating U.S. military/civilian employees.
Executing role: Designated supporting Service or Defense component; Eligible multinational center or Inter-American Defense College support offices
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