{
  "id": "INT-34",
  "category": "Intelligence resource administration",
  "capability": "Consolidate and transfer Defense intelligence appropriations into execution accounts",
  "summary": "Establish intelligence-element transfer accounts, receive lawful DNI transfers and reimbursements, and refund balances to originating accounts.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 429",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section429&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination",
      "Relevant Defense intelligence element mission sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Appropriate NIP/MIP program/resource owner and agency comptroller"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense/authorized fiscal official",
      "DNI for transfers under own statutory authority"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Defense intelligence element comptrollers",
      "DoD/Treasury accounting and payment organizations"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "DNI for NIP matters",
      "Relevant CCMD J2 and Service intelligence staff",
      "FBI/CIA or State only where required by the activity"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "OUSD(I&S) organization: PREM, SASP, CL&S, Warfighter Support",
      "url": "https://ousdi.defense.gov/About-Us/Organization/"
    },
    {
      "title": "DIA Finance and Acquisition career field: programming, budgeting, allocating, contracting",
      "url": "https://www.dia.mil/Careers/Career-Fields/Finance-Acquisition/"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Funds already available for Defense intelligence activities; lawful underlying inter-entity transactions.",
    "Record transfers as expenditure transfers."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Funds retain original time, purpose and statutory limits.",
    "No permission to reprogram to unrelated objects or evade appropriations controls."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Transfer/account administration authority only; not new budget authority."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Program resource allocation → intelligence element/DoD comptroller → lawful transfer account → retained-limitation tracking and payment.",
  "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": "Intelligence, counterintelligence and security",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Security & information"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "technology-protection"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "usd-intelligence-security",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "ddi-prem",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "ddi-warfighter-support",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "comptrollers",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Appropriate NIP/MIP program/resource owner and agency comptroller"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense/authorized fiscal official"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Relevant CCMD J2 and Service intelligence staff"
    }
  ]
}