EconDefense
Authority / instrument

Contracts & purchases

Find a purpose-specific route to train, equip, educate, supply or assist foreign partners and eligible humanitarian recipients.

1 records in this family–mechanism intersection. These editorial groups do not expand legal scope.

What this group is not: A contract or purchase tag is not general lending or equity authority; priorities, purchase commitments and financing-cost treatment remain distinct routes.

Basis: ACQ-35, ACQ-41, IND-01, IND-55

INT-20 · Security assistance sales

Sell DoD stocks or procure defense articles/services for foreign customers

Government-to-government sales from stocks and procurement for cash sales, with recipient undertakings to meet costs and cancellation liabilities.

What this is not / limit: Not unilateral DoD foreign-policy financing discretion.

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

Authority holder

President and Secretary of State statutory policy/supervision roles; DoD/DSCA executes authorized delegated sales.

Eligibility gate

  • Eligible country/organization and end-use/retransfer assurances.
  • Price, advance-payment/dependable-undertaking rules; applicable §2776 congressional review.
  • Review combat readiness, release/security and export conditions.

Funding condition

  • Purchaser/authorized assistance financing; relevant FMS trust/admin accounts and cost recovery.

All recorded limits

  • Not unilateral DoD foreign-policy financing discretion.
  • Personnel performing sold defense services may not perform combatant duties under §2761(c).
  • No presumption of authority to subsidize a purchaser’s costs.
Contracts & purchases
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementRole recorded
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Actor sources & routing basis

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

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