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Authority / instrument

Grants & cooperative agreements

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

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

What this group is not: These are purpose-limited awards, not general economic-development funding or interchangeable grant and contract labels.

Basis: ACQ-02, IND-12

USC-56 · Missing-personnel recovery partnerships

Partner, grant and procure to account for missing personnel

Use recovery-focused public-private partnerships, grants, cooperative agreements, property support and gifts; separately assist and procure goods/services from foreign nations for missing-U.S.-personnel accounting.

What this is not / limit: §408 annual assistance ceiling is $15 million, subject to notified waiver—not the obsolete $5 million baseline.

Executing role: Designated Defense Agency agreements, grants and recovery offices (illustrative; delegation not verified)

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense; Secretary of State concurrence or approval where specified

Eligibility gate

  • Private assistance must support the designated missing-personnel Defense Agency; foreign partnerships need State concurrence.
  • §408 foreign assistance needs specific State approval; annual reporting and terrorism-related recipient prohibitions apply.

Funding condition

  • Available mission funds; gifts of money go to the DoD General Gift Fund under §1501a.

All recorded limits

  • §408 annual assistance ceiling is $15 million, subject to notified waiver—not the obsolete $5 million baseline.
  • §1501a gifts cannot compromise integrity or its appearance; sole-source grants/agreements and no-cost property support remain mission-limited.
Contracts & purchasesGrants & cooperative agreements
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProgram unverified
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Actor sources & routing basis

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

USC-63 · Foreign Assistance Act military assistance

Furnish grant or loan military assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act

Acquire and furnish defense articles/services by loan or grant, assign noncombatant DoD personnel, or transfer military-assistance funds to eligible recipients’ FMS payment accounts.

What this is not / limit: Article loans require a bona fide reason beyond funding shortage, expected return, fixed term no more than five years and damage/loss reimbursement terms.

Executing role: Authorized DoD implementing agency (illustrative; delegation not verified)

Authority holder

President; State foreign-policy supervision; Secretary of Defense for assigned military-assistance execution

Eligibility gate

  • Eligible friendly country/organization; presidential security/world-peace finding and applicable end-use, security and retransfers assurances.

Funding condition

  • Applicable military-assistance funds and statutory reimbursements; no present appropriation certified.

All recorded limits

  • Article loans require a bona fide reason beyond funding shortage, expected return, fixed term no more than five years and damage/loss reimbursement terms.
  • Separate from excess-defense-article and emergency drawdown authorities; not autonomous DoD foreign aid.
Grants & cooperative agreementsLoans & guarantees
Legal basisSources linked
RequirementsGates recorded
Public fundingRules recorded
Assigned rolesRoles recorded
EngagementProgram unverified
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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.