EconDefense
INT-05 / International business, logistics and investment

Receive and spend foreign contributions to joint defense projects

Credit participating foreign-country or NATO cash contributions to DoD appropriations and use them for that participant’s project expenses.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-05 · Cooperation & exchanges

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense.

Cooperation & exchanges

Mechanism tags describe the source text; they do not expand the authority.

Availability and verification

Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.

Requirements and limits

Eligibility & prerequisites

  • Written jointly managed cost-sharing cooperative project improving conventional defense capabilities.
  • Allocate the foreign participant’s share and identify appropriate receiving DoD account.

Limits & exclusions

  • Receipts only pay contributing participant’s project share, not unrelated U.S. program needs.
  • Receipt authority does not independently authorize the underlying project.

Funding conditions

  • May pay contractors, program overhead, claims/cancellation expenses and participant refunds attributable to its share.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Service acquisition program/laboratory international-cooperation staff
  • CCMD capability sponsor
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Resources

  • Military Department or Defense Agency program manager and comptroller
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Approval

  • Secretary of Defense or validly delegated official
    Office profile
  • Department of State where statute or agreement process requires

Execution

  • Service international programs offices and warranted contracting/agreement officers
    Office profile
  • Relevant program executive office or laboratory

Partners & review

Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.

Coordination pathway

International agreement → program business/financial manager → designated receiving account → participant-specific project accounting.

Actor and execution-role sources

Legal basis

What this research establishes

Legal powerSource and conditions recorded
EligibilityProject-specific check needed
Available fundsBalances not verified
DelegationValid signature authority must be checked
ExecutionOffice capacity and approvals must be checked

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.

Research target: October 2, 2026. A record-specific last-review date is not supplied. Publication date is not legal-currentness certification.

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