Finance foreign cryptologic-support arrangements
Pay expenses of foreign-country cryptologic arrangements with available intelligence/communications appropriations or qualifying other funds.
Security & information
INT-33 / Intelligence, counterintelligence and security
Pay confidential, extraordinary or emergency intelligence expenses
Use separate express expenditure mechanisms for MIP intelligence/CI and DIA NIP human-intelligence/CI purposes.
At a glance
Mission goalProtect technology and industry
Possible toolINT-33 · Security & information
Legal basis10 U.S.C. § 429a
Responsible rolesPlanning · funds · approval · execution
Authority holder: Secretary of Defense for MIP; Director DIA for specified DIA NIP amounts.
Security & information
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
- Confidential/extraordinary/emergency object and certification for each expenditure.
- Above five percent of relevant fiscal-year amounts requires notice and 30-day wait; annual reports.
Limits & exclusions
- Different MIP/NIP authorities and bases must not be mixed.
- Expenditure flexibility is not an independent authority to conduct activities otherwise unlawful.
- §429a is exclusive MIP authority for these objects, rather than §127.
Funding conditions
- Only amounts made available to specified intelligence programs; no independent funding stream.
Who contributes what
Need & planning
- USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination
Office profile
Office profile
Office profile - Relevant Defense intelligence element mission sponsor
Resources
- MIP intelligence/CI funds
- DIA NIP HUMINT/CI funds
Office profile
Approval
- Secretary of Defense: MIP >$200k expenditure cannot be delegated
Office profile - Director DIA: statutory NIP certification
Office profile
Execution
- MIP program finance officials
- DIA NIP HUMINT/CI finance officials
Office profile
Partners & review
- DNI for NIP matters
- Relevant CCMD J2 and Service intelligence staff
Office profile - FBI/CIA or State only where required by the activity
Office links are editorial matches to the original role text, not verified delegations. Composite labels and unmatched actors are preserved.
Coordination pathway
Intelligence mission need → proper MIP/NIP account → legal/object certification → statutory approval/notice → controlled disbursement and reporting.
Legal basis
- 10 U.S.C. § 429a
- 50 U.S.C. § 3038Subsection(c) is DIA NIP expenditure authority, not general agency exemption.
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.