What this is not / limit: No support otherwise prohibited by law.
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
Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence.
Eligibility gate
Designate operation and notify Congress; annual continuing-designation review.
Where United States not participating, joint Defense-State national-interest certification and 15-day wait.
Funding condition
Applicable O&M/program funds and statutory value ceilings; resource availability not certified.
All recorded limits
No support otherwise prohibited by law.
Equipment-loan, interoperability and construction categories have particular recipient/purpose/geography conditions.
Aggregate ceilings differ by category; this is not a general foreign grant fund.
Finance foreign defense procurement and guarantee eligible financing through Presidential/State-supervised statutory programs administered with DoD support.
President under AECA; State policy/supervision and delegated administration, with DSCA execution role.
Eligibility gate
Friendly-country or organization defense procurement; specific financing terms and statutory repayment/interest rules unless later country-specific law controls.
Guarantee fees and applicable Federal credit-budget requirements.
Funding condition
Credit/guarantee ceiling and subsidy resources must be legally available; no current credit capacity inferred.
All recorded limits
Not authority for DoD to give any foreign firm a loan or guarantee for any national-security purpose.
Annual appropriations/country restrictions and cash-flow financing notices may control.
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
Authority holder
President, with statutory State supervision and authorized DoD execution.
Eligibility gate
Compelling reasons for lease rather than sale; articles not currently needed for public use.
Industrial-base effects considered; cost/depreciation/damage-return terms unless specific exception.
Congressional certification and 15/30-day wait for leases of one year or more.
Funding condition
Lessee payment of specified costs subject to narrow statutory exceptions; U.S. expenditures still require funds.
All recorded limits
Normally maximum five years plus specified refurbishment period; President can terminate and demand return.
Cannot use ordinary 10 USC2667 property lease authority as substitute for foreign defense-article lease.