{
  "id": "INT-44",
  "category": "Security cooperation education and networks",
  "capability": "Operate international education/research networks and fund university partnerships",
  "summary": "Host bilateral and multilateral research, discussion and training; pay eligible participant costs, receive reimbursements, and use specified grants/contracts/cooperative agreements for Irregular Warfare Center higher-education partnerships.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 342",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section342&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 345",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section345&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1203",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "FY2026 NDAA enacted December 18, 2025."
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1204",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "FY2026 NDAA enacted December 18, 2025."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; Regional Center directors for authorized service agreements; ASD(SO/LIC) is IWC executive agent after FY26 amendment.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "CCMD and regional-center academic/program staffs",
      "OUSD(P)/ASD(SO/LIC) for irregular warfare priorities"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Regional Center appropriations and eligible reimbursements",
      "Irregular Warfare Center and Regional Defense Fellowship Program resource holders"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense or documented delegate",
      "State concurrence for prescribed participant categories and joint fellowship planning"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Six statutory Regional Centers",
      "Irregular Warfare Center and Defense Security Cooperation University contracting/grants offices"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Foreign officials and eligible NGO/international-organization participants",
      "U.S. agencies and higher-education institutions"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 342 statutory operator and decision-maker roles",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section342&num=0&edition=prelim"
    },
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 345 statutory operator and decision-maker roles",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section345&num=0&edition=prelim"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1203 statutory operator and decision-maker roles",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1204 statutory operator and decision-maker roles",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Use statutory center and authorized subject matter; regional-center reimbursements normally required unless eligible waiver.",
    "FY26 removed developing-country limitation for §342(f)(3)(A) military/defense/security participant waivers; national-security-interest finding remains.",
    "For IWC university partnerships use §2679 support agreement or contract/cooperative agreement/grant through DSCU."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Cannot designate an unlisted institution as a §342 Regional Center.",
    "RDFP statutory annual cap $35 million; center-specific costs are not automatically included in that fellowship cap.",
    "Reimbursable Regional Center services to other Federal agencies require SecDef concurrence and full-cost payment."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Center appropriations, eligible reimbursements, and authorized gifts under §2611 subject to their terms.",
    "IWC faculty and operating costs require appropriations; statute permits higher-education partnering rather than unrestricted business grants."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Theater or institutional need → relevant center/IWC → cost and participant eligibility → State/Defense approval or waiver → education/research agreement and funded execution.",
  "availability": "Existing statutory pathway; program-specific approvals, eligible recipients, actual appropriations and delegations remain necessary.",
  "confidence": "High on statutory capability; implementation and available resources not certified.",
  "currentness": "Full GovInfo2024 §§342 and345 read; FY26 §§1203-1204 directly applied, including IWC executive-agent replacement from DSCA to ASD(SO/LIC). Target October 2, 2026; subsequent enactment delta not certified.",
  "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Cooperation & exchanges"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "CCMD and regional-center academic/program staffs"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense or documented delegate"
    }
  ]
}