{
  "id": "INT-14",
  "category": "Security cooperation",
  "capability": "Train, equip and sustain foreign national security forces for enumerated missions",
  "summary": "Build partner capacity with defense articles/services, training, supplies and small-scale construction for nine listed missions, including military intelligence and defensive cyber.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 333",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section333&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 362",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section362&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 382",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section382&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1202",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence; DSCA administers subject to lawful designations.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners",
      "Embassy SCO and Chief of Mission country team"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "DSCA and the specified program appropriation holder",
      "Service/Defense Agency comptroller"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense or documented authorized delegate",
      "Secretary of State where required"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DSCA-designated implementing agency",
      "Army DASA(DE&C)/USASAC; Navy NIPO and systems commands; Air Force SAF/IA and implementing program offices as applicable"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Foreign partner government",
      "Department of State",
      "Export-control/foreign-disclosure officials"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DSCA Security Assistance Management Manual, chapter 1: roles and implementing agencies",
      "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-1"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Joint Defense-State development/planning and coordinated implementation.",
    "Required human-rights, law-of-armed-conflict, rule-of-law/civilian-control and institutional-capacity elements and certifications.",
    "Unit eligibility/Leahy review; 15-day notice, absorption and sustainment assessments."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Limited statutory mission menu; not unrestricted economic aid.",
    "Other legal prohibitions remain; extended sustainment beyond five years needs added justification/transition information.",
    "Construction above statutory reporting threshold needs project details and masterplan."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Sole source: O&M, Defense-wide amounts available to DSCA for these programs.",
    "As amended, amounts available in FY2025 or later may support programs beginning that year through end of third fiscal year thereafter; check actual appropriation availability."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "CCMD/SCO requirements → joint State planning → DSCA implementing agency design/cost/sustainment → concurrence/certification/notice → funded case execution.",
  "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. §333(g)(2) FY26 amendment changes amounts MADE available to amounts AVAILABLE; direct enacted text checked.",
  "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "comptrollers",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Service/Defense Agency comptroller"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "defense-agencies",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Service/Defense Agency comptroller"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense or documented authorized delegate"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "army",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Army DASA(DE&C)/USASAC; Navy NIPO and systems commands; Air Force SAF/IA and implementing program offices as applicable"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "navy-marine-corps",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Army DASA(DE&C)/USASAC; Navy NIPO and systems commands; Air Force SAF/IA and implementing program offices as applicable"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "air-force-space-force",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "Army DASA(DE&C)/USASAC; Navy NIPO and systems commands; Air Force SAF/IA and implementing program offices as applicable"
    }
  ]
}