{
  "id": "INT-45",
  "category": "Security cooperation education and networks",
  "capability": "Share multinational education-center operating costs, facilities and personnel support",
  "summary": "Fund U.S. participation and a share of operating costs at eligible multinational centers of excellence; furnish facilities, supplies, services and faculty support to the Inter-American Defense College.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 344",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section344&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 351",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section351&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence for required agreements.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "CCMD/Service interoperability and education sponsors"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Purpose-available DoD operation and maintenance account holder"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State agreement concurrence"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Designated supporting Service or Defense component",
      "Eligible multinational center or Inter-American Defense College support offices"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "NATO-accredited centers, European Centre for Countering Hybrid Threats, International Special Training Centre",
      "Inter-American Defense Board"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 344 statutory operator and decision-maker roles",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section344&num=0&edition=prelim"
    },
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 351 statutory operator and decision-maker roles",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section351&num=0&edition=prelim"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Formal memorandum specifying cost sharing when DoD funds/facilities/equipment used.",
    "New §344 center participation requires 30-day congressional notice.",
    "Inter-American Defense College MOU includes curriculum and academic development plan."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "These sections do not finance pay/salaries of participating U.S. military/civilian employees.",
    "Centers must fit statutory definition; no general authority to endow arbitrary foreign think tanks.",
    "Developing-country reimbursement waiver for Inter-American Defense College requires national-security-interest determination."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "O&M may pay covered operating and participation/support costs, not the excluded salaries.",
    "§351 permits covered fiscal-year-start activities to end in next fiscal year."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Interoperability/academic requirement → sponsoring component → State-concurred MOU/cost sharing → required notice and resource certification → center support.",
  "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": "GovInfo2024 §§344 and351 full bodies read; FY26 NDAA text searched for amendments. Target October 2, 2026; later enactment delta not certified.",
  "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "CCMD/Service interoperability and education sponsors"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State agreement concurrence"
    }
  ]
}