{
  "id": "INT-19",
  "category": "Security cooperation",
  "capability": "Conduct National Guard State Partnerships and share activity costs",
  "summary": "Establish National Guard partnerships with foreign military, security and disaster/emergency organizations and pay eligible U.S. and foreign incremental costs.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 341",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section341&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1206",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "FY2026 NDAA enacted December 18, 2025."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence; Chief of National Guard Bureau designates state/territory coordinators.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners",
      "Embassy SCO and Chief of Mission country team"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "DoD/National Guard funds legally available for program"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense or documented authorized delegate",
      "Secretary of State where required"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "National Guard Bureau",
      "State/territory National Guard partnership coordinators"
    ],
    "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": [
    "National-security-interest finding and 15-day notice for covered nonmilitary-security/disaster activities.",
    "Members participating abroad must be in active-duty armed-forces status under this authority.",
    "Unit human-rights restriction §362 applies.",
    "FY26 §1206 requires partnership selection analysis to account for existing State partnerships and Guard capacity."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Not authority for State governments independently to conduct U.S. foreign policy.",
    "Foreign incremental-expense aggregate statutory cap applies."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Available DoD/Guard program appropriations; foreign expense cap is not an allocation."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "SCO/CCMD partnership priority → NGB/state coordinator → Defense-State approval → eligible status and funded activity.",
  "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 §1206 statutory selection-analysis requirement read.",
  "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Cooperation & exchanges"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense or documented authorized delegate"
    }
  ]
}