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INT-12 / International business, logistics and investment

Partner across Five Eyes military medical research, logistics and care interoperability

Enter Five Eyes agreements covering medical R&D/trials, education, credentialing, biodefense, logistics and patient movement.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-12 · Other statutory tools

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense.

Other statutory tools

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

  • Bilateral/multilateral MOU or formal agreement with listed Five Eyes countries.
  • Annual statutory reporting on agreements/activities and additional areas SecDef designates.

Limits & exclusions

  • Agreement authority alone does not waive drug regulation, human-subject rules, licensing or fiscal law.
  • Does not itself provide money.

Funding conditions

  • Program-specific available funding; no contribution or loan authority inferred beyond express text.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • ASD(Health Affairs), Defense Health Agency and Service medical sponsors

Resources

  • Relevant medical RDT&E/O&M or other authorized program appropriation

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense or documented authorized agreement official
    Office profile

Execution

  • DHA/Service medical research and operational medical organizations

Partners & review

  • Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom defense-medical authorities
  • State/foreign-disclosure partners as applicable

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

Coordination pathway

Medical capability need → DHA/Service research or operational sponsor → agreement/legal/fiscal review → Five Eyes arrangement → accountable execution.

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: New §2350t enacted in Pub. L. 119-60 §715 on 2025-12-18; enacted text read. First annual report due one year after enactment. Later amendment delta not certified.

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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