EconDefense
INT-38 / Domestic and interagency support

Share military information, equipment, facilities and expertise with civilian law enforcement

Provide lawfully collected information and controlled equipment/facility/training/maintenance support; selected equipment operations have enumerated statutory conditions. Separate authorities support Justice in specified WMD emergencies and bombing situations.

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At a glance

Possible toolINT-38 · Security & information
Legal basis10 U.S.C. § 271

Authority holder: Secretary of Defense; requesting civilian agency retains its law-enforcement authority.

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

  • Valid request and authorized support category; mission preparedness and applicable-law review.
  • Economy Act/other reimbursement unless statutory waiver conditions met.
  • §§282-283 need Attorney General request and applicable joint rules; §282 requires joint emergency finding, unavailable civilian capability and no adverse preparedness effect.

Limits & exclusions

  • §275 prohibits specified direct military searches, seizures, arrests or similar acts unless otherwise authorized by law.
  • Sharing normally collected information is not blanket permission to collect for civilian policing.
  • Posse Comitatus and other constitutional/statutory limits require separate application.
  • §§282-283 normally bar direct arrest, evidence search/seizure and law-enforcement intelligence collection, with expressly bounded immediate-life-protection or otherwise-lawful exceptions; not general domestic police jurisdiction.

Funding conditions

  • Reimbursable support or narrow training/operations benefit waiver; no free general assistance fund.

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Who contributes what

Need & planning

  • Civilian law-enforcement requesting agency
  • CCMD/Service support planners
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Resources

  • Supporting DoD appropriation with reimbursement as required

Approval

  • Secretary of Defense/authorized official
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  • Attorney General and State joint approvals for specified §274 tasks

Execution

Partners & review

  • DOJ/FBI, DHS, State/local law-enforcement officials as appropriate

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

Coordination pathway

Partner law-enforcement need → Defense support review → purpose/reimbursement/operational limits → approved support while civilian agency exercises coercive powers.

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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