12 recordsWhat this group is not: These pathways do not supply interchangeable powers or funds; each retains its own purpose, procedures and exclusions.
Basis: ACQ-43, FIN-01, FIN-11
Example limit · INT-01: Partner may not fund its contribution with U.S. military/economic assistance.
Recorded executing roles: Service international programs offices and warranted contracting/agreement officers; Relevant program executive office or laboratory; Military Department/Defense Agency test center and agreement/financial offices; CCMD/Service authorized ACSA order officials; DLA and supporting logistics organizations; Service installation, logistics and real-property offices; Service construction agents such as USACE/NAVFAC and supporting logistics offices; Service construction, logistics and financial offices; SecDef-designated construction agent, typically relevant Service construction organization; USTRANSCOM/Service transport and medical organizations under approved arrangements; DISA/Service communications support offices for §2350f arrangements; DHA/Service medical research and operational medical organizations; IWTSD and authorized program contracting/agreement offices
Examine these authorities →INT-01 · International research and acquisitionEnter cooperative R&D agreements, share cash and noncash project costs, and acquire domestic or foreign equipment for side-by-side testing.
What this is not / limit: Partner may not fund its contribution with U.S. military/economic assistance.
Executing role: Service international programs offices and warranted contracting/agreement officers; Relevant program executive office or laboratory
Cooperation & exchanges
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.
Agree to reciprocal testing of defense equipment and collect reimbursement for U.S. facility support.
What this is not / limit: Not a general right for any foreign commercial firm to use ranges without a government/international-organization agreement.
Executing role: Military Department/Defense Agency test center and agreement/financial offices
Cooperation & exchanges
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.
Use cooperative-project contracting, partner procurement and project property-disposal arrangements; NATO support/procurement partnerships separately permit common acquisition including armaments.
What this is not / limit: §2350b waiver does not waive AECA, competition provision itself, Treasury financial-management responsibilities or cargo-preference laws.
Executing role: Service international programs offices and warranted contracting/agreement officers; Relevant program executive office or laboratory
Contracts & purchasesCooperation & exchanges
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.
Acquire foreign logistics support and enter cross-servicing agreements to exchange eligible supplies/services by reimbursement, replacement-in-kind or equal-value exchange.
What this is not / limit: Cannot buy from foreign government what is reasonably available from U.S. commercial sources.
Executing role: CCMD/Service authorized ACSA order officials; DLA and supporting logistics organizations
Loans & guaranteesCooperation & exchanges
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Institutional routing from the recorded executing role. See the office profile for its published responsibilities and engagement routes.
Credit participating foreign-country or NATO cash contributions to DoD appropriations and use them for that participant’s project expenses.
What this is not / limit: Receipts only pay contributing participant’s project share, not unrelated U.S. program needs.
Executing role: Service international programs offices and warranted contracting/agreement officers; Relevant program executive office or laboratory
Cooperation & exchanges
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.
Accept and use real property or its use, supplies and services under mutual-defense/occupation arrangements, plus customary reciprocal courtesies.
What this is not / limit: May not use contributions to evade a prohibition or limitation on the supported program.
Executing role: Service installation, logistics and real-property offices
Property & leases
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.
Accept designated-country/regional-organization cash for local labor, construction, supplies/services and specified NATO deployed/rotational support, including costs in another country.
What this is not / limit: Contributed amounts cannot simply be repurposed to unrestricted departmental use.
Executing role: Service construction agents such as USACE/NAVFAC and supporting logistics offices
Other statutory tools
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Accept host-nation cash, irrevocable letters of credit or blocked-account drawing rights to fund force relocation within that nation.
What this is not / limit: Cannot fund unrelated missions; personnel-cost category excludes military personnel salary.
Executing role: Service construction, logistics and financial offices
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.
Accept U.S. host-nation designation for NATO Security Investment Program projects and use NATO/member contributions and qualifying U.S. NSIP funds.
What this is not / limit: Not generic authority to finance any foreign construction project.
Executing role: SecDef-designated construction agent, typically relevant Service construction organization
Cooperation & exchanges
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.
Enter tailored reciprocal transportation and patient-movement arrangements, including SEOS and ATARES participation. Separately exchange allied communications support and related supplies/services for equivalent value.
What this is not / limit: Different statutes are not interchangeable.
Executing role: USTRANSCOM/Service transport and medical organizations under approved arrangements; DISA/Service communications support offices for §2350f arrangements
Other statutory tools
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.
Enter Five Eyes agreements covering medical R&D/trials, education, credentialing, biodefense, logistics and patient movement.
What this is not / limit: Agreement authority alone does not waive drug regulation, human-subject rules, licensing or fiscal law.
Executing role: DHA/Service medical research and operational medical organizations
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.
New FY26 law permits joint emerging-technology RDT&E with a defined preexisting partner set under safeguards, cost sharing and U.S. intellectual-property rights.
What this is not / limit: Not authorization to cooperate with every country.
Executing role: IWTSD and authorized program contracting/agreement offices
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Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office.