{
  "id": "USC-65",
  "category": "Institution-specific foreign education",
  "capability": "Operate specialized allied education programs and support their students",
  "summary": "Operate named Western Hemisphere, aviation and naval-small-craft programs and service-academy foreign engagements, using each statute’s specific student support, reimbursement and facility-funding rules.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 343",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec343.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 347",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec347.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 348",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec348.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 349",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec349.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 350",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec350.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 352",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec352.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1205",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Enacted December 18, 2025; operative amendment read."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense and the specified military-department Secretaries",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Service international education sponsor (illustrative routing lead)"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense and the specified military-department Secretaries"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Named academy or school financial and education office (illustrative; delegation not verified)"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Department of State"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 343 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec343.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 347 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec347.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 348 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec348.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 349 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec349.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 350 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec350.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 352 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title10/html/USCODE-2024-title10-subtitleA-partI-chap16-subchapV-sec352.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1205 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Apply school-specific national eligibility, State consultation/concurrence, foreign-assistance prohibitions and human-rights training requirements.",
    "§347 academy attendance normally requires reimbursement unless waived; foreign cadets capped at 80 per academy; exchanges have separate one-for-one limits.",
    "§343 also permits foreign gifts for Institute costs/operations under its specific terms and crediting provisions."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "§352 now requires school operation; tuition cannot include fixed operation/maintenance costs.",
    "This grouping maps distinct statutory routes, not a general foreign-scholarship authority."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Account-specific O&M, procurement and military-construction authority; aviation student benefits only as allowed by §§348/350."
  ],
  "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. P.L. 119-60 §1205 read: mandatory NAVSCIATTS operation and exclusion of fixed O&M costs from tuition.",
  "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": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "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 and the specified military-department Secretaries"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "security-cooperation-assistance-and-education",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-65",
    "name": "Named academy or school financial and education office (illustrative; delegation not verified)",
    "label": "Named academy or school financial and education office (illustrative; delegation not verified)",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-65/",
    "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": "Account-specific O&M, procurement and military-construction authority; aviation student benefits only as allowed by §§348/350. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-65/#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-65/#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": "§352 now requires school operation; tuition cannot include fixed operation/maintenance costs."
}