EconDefense
Record-specific actor routing

Follow through on USC-26

Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

This is a record-specific route, not an additional institutional directory node. Current assignment must be verified.

Authority holder · recorded legal basis

Secretary of Defense

Executing office · routing lead

Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

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

Intake

Use the responsible program or contracting office for this instrument.

The recorded role is not itself a general application endpoint.

What this role does not control

A routing lead does not establish funds, an individual delegation or approval of the proposed action.

Legal basisSources linkedLegal sources and instrument limits are recorded.
RequirementsGates recordedRead the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action.
Public fundingRules recordedChapter 389 requires advance appropriations provision; the permanent §4971 note supplies a continuing guarantee authorization within its cap and fee/reporting conditions. Administrative-fee receipts have specifically authorized uses. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.
Assigned rolesRoles recordedPublic sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.
EngagementProgram unverifiedAdded in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.

Selected instrument

USC-26 · Defense export loan guarantees

Guarantee eligible defense-export sale and long-term-lease financing

Issue guarantees against principal or interest losses for financing defense-article, defense-service, or design-and-construction sales or long-term leases to the statutorily specified foreign countries.

What this is not / limit: The continuing provision caps total contingent liability at $15 billion and requires country-paid exposure fees that cannot be financed in the guaranteed loan.

Executing role: Authorized contracting, grants, agreements, property, or finance office; implementation not verified

Authority holder

Secretary of Defense

Eligibility gate

  • Confirm covered-country eligibility under §4971(b), export-control compliance, applicable terms, and fee requirements.
  • Read the continuing appropriations provision in Pub. L. 108-287 §8065 with chapter 389.

Funding condition

  • Chapter 389 requires advance appropriations provision; the permanent §4971 note supplies a continuing guarantee authorization within its cap and fee/reporting conditions. Administrative-fee receipts have specifically authorized uses.

All recorded limits

  • The continuing provision caps total contingent liability at $15 billion and requires country-paid exposure fees that cannot be financed in the guaranteed loan.
  • No guarantee payments for losses caused by the payee’s fraud or misrepresentation; no acceleration beyond original loan-payment terms.
  • Legal authority does not establish an active lending window or current execution arrangements.
Loans & guaranteesProperty & leases
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.