{
  "id": "INT-24",
  "category": "Foreign humanitarian assistance",
  "capability": "Provide civilian humanitarian and civic support with military operations",
  "summary": "Perform limited medical/veterinary care, rudimentary public works, water/sanitation and related assistance serving basic civilian needs; broader humanitarian assistance has a separate funding pathway.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 401",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section401&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2561",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2561&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Military Department Secretary under §401 regulations and Secretary of State approval; SecDef for §2561.",
  "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": [
      "Service engineering/medical forces and designated implementers",
      "DSCA humanitarian-assistance program offices"
    ],
    "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": [
    "§401 activities in conjunction with authorized military operations and promote both U.S./host security and operational-readiness skills.",
    "Complement rather than duplicate other U.S. social/economic assistance.",
    "§2561 notice before programs over $5m, with narrow 48-hour extraordinary-circumstances alternative."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "§401 may not directly or indirectly aid groups engaged in military/paramilitary activity.",
    "Not unrestricted development aid; separate statutory purposes and fund sources must be identified."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "§401 direct expenses require purpose-specific appropriations; other O&M only incidental costs.",
    "§2561 humanitarian amounts as actually authorized/appropriated; no-year treatment only to extent appropriation permits."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "CCMD/SCO civilian need → State and DSCA humanitarian coordination → choose §401/2561 and readiness/purpose finding → funded implementer.",
  "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.",
  "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"
    }
  ]
}