{
  "id": "FIN-09",
  "category": "Resource coordination and financial administration",
  "capability": "Settle and pay qualifying noncombat damage claims",
  "summary": "Resolve specified property, injury, or death claims under the Military Claims Act or applicable Federal Tort Claims Act mechanism.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2733",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2733&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "28 U.S.C. § 2672",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section2672&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary concerned or authorized claims official; Attorney General approval/delegation where applicable",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Responsible component claims/legal office"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Applicable claims appropriation or judgment-payment mechanism"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Statutorily authorized claims official",
      "Attorney General/designee where required"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Military claims offices",
      "Agency counsel"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Department of Justice when required"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 2733",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2733&num=0&edition=prelim"
    },
    {
      "title": "28 U.S.C. § 2672",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title28-section2672&num=0&edition=prelim"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Applicable claims statute, facts, filing period, settlement delegation, and payment source."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "§2733 has a $100,000 ordinary payment ceiling with a separate excess-claim referral route; narrower delegations exist.",
    "Not a general business-loss bailout or voluntary commercial indemnity.",
    "FTCA exceptions and statutory exclusions require separate case review."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Statute-specific payment and judgment-fund rules; no generic program discretion."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Need owner → responsible component counsel and comptroller → statutory official or verified delegate → authorized execution office. Office labels describe functional roles; individual delegations and funds are not certified.",
  "availability": "Existing statutory pathway; transaction-specific funds, approval, and delegation verification required.",
  "confidence": "High for statutory mechanism; individual execution readiness not verified.",
  "currentness": "2024 official Code baseline compared with available current text; targeted FY2026 NDAA and FY2027 continuing-resolution review. See coverage audit; not a complete legal citator.",
  "family": "Enterprise resources and shared execution",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Funds & shared services"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "funding-execution"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Agency counsel"
    }
  ]
}