EconDefense
INT-15 / Security cooperation, assistance and education

Support partner operations with logistics, equipment loans, training and small construction

Provide support for SecDef-designated coalition, combined, military or stability operations within statutory categories.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-15 · Loans & guarantees
Legal basis10 U.S.C. § 331

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense with Secretary of State concurrence.

Loans & guarantees

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

  • Designate operation and notify Congress; annual continuing-designation review.
  • Where United States not participating, joint Defense-State national-interest certification and 15-day wait.

Limits & exclusions

  • No support otherwise prohibited by law.
  • Equipment-loan, interoperability and construction categories have particular recipient/purpose/geography conditions.
  • Aggregate ceilings differ by category; this is not a general foreign grant fund.

Funding conditions

  • Applicable O&M/program funds and statutory value ceilings; resource availability not certified.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners
    Office profile
  • Embassy SCO and Chief of Mission country team

Resources

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense or documented authorized delegate
    Office profile
  • Secretary of State where required

Execution

Partners & review

  • Foreign partner government
  • Department of State
  • Export-control/foreign-disclosure officials

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

Coordination pathway

CCMD operational requirement → State/DSCA/Service design → SecDef designation and necessary certifications → logistics or loan 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: 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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