{
  "id": "INT-07",
  "category": "International contributions",
  "capability": "Use foreign burden-sharing cash for infrastructure and deployed support",
  "summary": "Accept designated-country/regional-organization cash for local labor, construction, supplies/services and specified NATO deployed/rotational support, including costs in another country.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2350j",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350j&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1246",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Expands eligible costs and third-country use."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense after consultation with Secretary of State; Service Secretary may construct with SecDef approval.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "CCMD posture planners",
      "Service installation/logistics sponsors"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Country/organization-specific contribution account"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense and State consultation",
      "Secretary of a military department with SecDef approval for construction"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Service construction agents such as USACE/NAVFAC and supporting logistics offices"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Contributing government or regional organization",
      "Congressional defense committees"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DSCA Security Assistance Management Manual, chapter 1: roles and implementing agencies",
      "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-1"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Designate contributor with State consultation; separate accounts and purpose alignment.",
    "Construction not otherwise authorized requires report and normally 14-day wait; emergency exception has its own notice."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "NATO deployed-support category excludes U.S. military pay, allowances and normal benefits.",
    "Contributed amounts cannot simply be repurposed to unrestricted departmental use."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Contributions remain available until expended for specified statutory purposes.",
    "No assumption a host nation has offered or funded a contribution."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "CCMD posture need → host-nation negotiation/State → SecDef acceptance → Service project/fiscal office → congressional process → execute.",
  "availability": "Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.",
  "confidence": "High on express statutory capability; execution/delegation and currently available resources require program-specific confirmation.",
  "currentness": "GovInfo 2024 U.S. Code baseline read; relevant FY2026 NDAA (Pub. L. 119-60, enacted 2025-12-18) amendments reviewed. Target 2026-10-02; source-specific OLRC checks and remaining delta are documented in international.md. No certification of current funds or executed delegations. FY26 §1246 amendment read directly; OLRC §2350j index dated 2026-09-18 corroborates current section.",
  "family": "International business, logistics and investment",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "CCMD posture planners"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense and State consultation"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of a military department with SecDef approval for construction"
    }
  ]
}