{
  "id": "INT-28",
  "category": "Interagency security cooperation",
  "capability": "Fund a partner agency to do complementary work DoD cannot do itself",
  "summary": "Support other U.S. agencies’ foreign-assistance activities necessary to effectiveness of DoD Chapter16 programs and beyond DoD’s own authority.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 385",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section385&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense, with receiving agency head for transfer notification.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners",
      "Embassy SCO and Chief of Mission country team"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "DoD funds legally available for §385 support"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense and receiving agency head"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Receiving U.S. agency with its own substantive authority",
      "DoD/DSCA transfer and program-monitoring 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": [
    "Activity necessary to a Chapter16 DoD program and cannot be carried out by DoD.",
    "For transfers, joint notice describing need, cost, theater plan, other funds and why DoD cannot act; 30-day wait."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Does not transfer another agency’s legal powers to DoD.",
    "Aggregate $75m annual support ceiling; recipient must have its own authority."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Proper transfer and purpose-available funds; not unrestricted funding augmentation."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Identify complementary non-DoD need → legal mismatch → empowered partner → joint notice/funding transfer → partner execution plus DoD outcome tracking.",
  "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 and receiving agency head"
    }
  ]
}