{
  "id": "INT-41",
  "category": "Intelligence research and information partnerships",
  "capability": "Fund cryptologic research by private individuals and institutions",
  "summary": "NSA grants support cryptologic research under an agency-specific express statutory grant authority.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 3611",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3611&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Director of the National Security Agency.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination",
      "Relevant Defense intelligence element mission sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "NSA appropriations available for cryptologic research grants"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Director NSA or documented lawful approval chain"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "NSA research and grants offices"
    ],
    "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": "50 U.S.C. § 3038",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3038&num=0&edition=prelim"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Director determines grant clearly consistent with national security.",
    "Federal grant/cooperative-agreement framework applies to extent consistent with NSA information-protection statute."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Cryptologic research purpose; not unrestricted business investment or general scholarship power."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Effective only to extent appropriated funds available."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Research requirement → NSA research/grants office → national-security determination → funded grant and oversight.",
  "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": [
    "develop-technology",
    "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": "nsa-css",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "NSA appropriations available for cryptologic research grants"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "nsa-css",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Director NSA or documented lawful approval chain"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "nsa-css",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "NSA research and grants offices"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Relevant CCMD J2 and Service intelligence staff"
    }
  ]
}