{
  "id": "USC-51",
  "category": "Defense rewards",
  "capability": "Pay rewards for qualifying counterterrorism information or force-protection assistance",
  "summary": "Pay money or provide payment-in-kind for information or nonlethal assistance benefiting covered overseas counterterrorism operations or U.S./allied force protection.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 127b",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127b.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense or narrowly authorized delegate",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Combatant-command force-protection sponsor (illustrative routing lead)"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense or narrowly authorized delegate"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized rewards-program and financial officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Department of State",
      "Department of Justice"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 127b statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap3-sec127b.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Consult State and Justice through required policies; State consultation for rewards above $2 million.",
    "Follow statutory delegation ceilings and country-designation/annual reporting."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Maximum $5 million per reward; combatant-command delegation normally limited to $1 million, with narrower redelegation rules.",
    "U.S. citizens, U.S. officers/employees and employees of U.S. contractors are ineligible."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Identify lawfully available program funds; section does not create unlimited reward funding."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.",
  "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.",
  "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.",
  "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.",
  "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05",
  "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05",
  "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.",
  "usc_review_notes": [
    "Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified."
  ],
  "mechanisms": [
    "Security & information"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "Combatant-command force-protection sponsor (illustrative routing lead)"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "comptrollers",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense or narrowly authorized delegate"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "security-cooperation-assistance-and-education",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Security & information"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-51",
    "name": "Authorized rewards-program and financial officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)",
    "label": "Authorized rewards-program and financial officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-51/",
    "basis": "Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office."
  },
  "program_context": [],
  "program_research": null,
  "checks": [
    {
      "key": "legal",
      "label": "Legal basis",
      "state": "Sources linked",
      "detail": "Legal sources and instrument limits are recorded."
    },
    {
      "key": "eligibility",
      "label": "Requirements",
      "state": "Gates recorded",
      "detail": "Read the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action."
    },
    {
      "key": "funds",
      "label": "Public funding",
      "state": "Rules recorded",
      "detail": "Identify lawfully available program funds; section does not create unlimited reward funding. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-51/#funding"
    },
    {
      "key": "delegation",
      "label": "Assigned roles",
      "state": "Roles recorded",
      "detail": "Public sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-51/#roles"
    },
    {
      "key": "execution",
      "label": "Engagement",
      "state": "Program unverified",
      "detail": "Added in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.",
      "url": "/sources/usc/"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "Maximum $5 million per reward; combatant-command delegation normally limited to $1 million, with narrower redelegation rules."
}