{
  "id": "INT-25",
  "category": "Foreign humanitarian assistance",
  "capability": "Transport donated relief and furnish foreign disaster assistance",
  "summary": "Carry nongovernmental relief supplies on a space-available basis or, when directed by the President, provide transport, supplies, services and equipment for foreign disasters.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 402",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section402&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 404",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section404&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense for donated transport; President directing SecDef for foreign disaster assistance.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners",
      "Embassy SCO and Chief of Mission country team"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Existing eligible transportation capacity",
      "OHDACA or other available purpose-appropriate funds"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense for §402 eligibility",
      "President for §404 direction"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "USTRANSCOM/Service transportation and disaster-response elements"
    ],
    "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": [
    "Donated supplies must be suitable, needed, usable and have distribution arrangements; space available.",
    "§404 manmade/natural disaster necessity to prevent loss of lives or serious environmental harm; 48-hour congressional report."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "§402 aid not for military/paramilitary recipients.",
    "Environmental-only transport needs unavailability of other sources.",
    "Capacity and operational availability are not guaranteed."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "§402 normally without charge; environmental transport reimbursement permitted.",
    "Disaster authority and appropriation availability remain distinct."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Relief requirement/State coordination → capacity and eligibility review → correct approval branch → transportation/disaster 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.",
  "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": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense for §402 eligibility"
    }
  ]
}