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Industrial capacity, capital and credit · 7 records
IND-12 · Industrial capacity assistanceUse contracts, grants, cooperative agreements and other transactions; provide private-sector incentives to create, maintain, protect, expand or restore essential domestic industrial-base capabilities. Express eligible uses include workforce, facilities and production infrastructure.
What this is not / limit: Purpose-limited supply-chain program, not general economic development
Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer
Grants & cooperative agreements
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Make awards to intermediaries supporting investments in small/medium entities working in defense-interest areas that benefit DoD missions.
What this is not / limit: This text expressly authorizes third-party investment awards; it does not expressly enumerate a general direct government equity portfolio
Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer
Investment & capital
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Provide subsidies to offset market manipulation; use conditioned material subsidy payments, including loss-making resale or purchase commitments, for specified supply risks.
What this is not / limit: No covered-country source subsidies under §4817(i)(3)
Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer
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Make purchase commitments for federal use or resale, critical-mineral development, components, production capacity and dual-use technology transition.
What this is not / limit: Commitment term no more than 10 years
Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer
Contracts & purchases
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Expressly procure/install equipment, construct private facilities, modify production processes, transfer government equipment and construct facilities for eligible supply chains.
What this is not / limit: No free-standing commercial real-estate speculation authority
Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer
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Support material/component substitutes and production incentives; use reliable-source restrictions, stockpiles, reserves and lead-time planning. Excess acquired materials may transfer to National Defense Stockpile without acquisition reimbursement.
What this is not / limit: No blanket waiver of acquisition restrictions
Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer
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An uncodified pilot expressly lists loans, guarantees, purchase commitments, cost-sharing and third-party awards supporting debt/equity investment in small/medium manufacturers.
What this is not / limit: Express third-party equity support does not establish unlimited direct Treasury equity acquisition
Executing role: WIRE/IBAS program and assigned warranted contracting or agreements officer
Investment & capital
Editorial cross-list: the recorded pilot summary also names credit and purchase commitments. An operating program and new awards are not verified.
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International business, logistics and investment · 12 records
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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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
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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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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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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
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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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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
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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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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
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Make a specifically authorized contribution to the NATO Innovation Fund, rather than infer a general authority to invest equity.
What this is not / limit: This is fund-contribution authority, not a general permission for every DoD office to buy company shares.
Executing role: Designated DoD contribution administrator; current implementation owner not verified; NATO Innovation Fund as external fund manager
Investment & capital
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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
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Demonstrate and field contested-logistics support, shared parts, prepositioning and advanced manufacturing near point of use through existing contracting, partnership and OT authorities. The Overseas Workload Program separately permits NATO/MNNA firms to compete for overseas DoD maintenance, repair and overhaul.
What this is not / limit: Program does not blanket-waive domestic depot, export-control or fiscal restrictions.
Executing role: Service product-support managers and program offices; CCMD logistics sponsors; Qualified U.S./covered-nation public or private product-support providers
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Security cooperation, assistance and education · 18 records
INT-14 · Security cooperationBuild partner capacity with defense articles/services, training, supplies and small-scale construction for nine listed missions, including military intelligence and defensive cyber.
What this is not / limit: Limited statutory mission menu; not unrestricted economic aid.
Executing role: DSCA-designated implementing agency; Army DASA(DE&C)/USASAC; Navy NIPO and systems commands; Air Force SAF/IA and implementing program offices as applicable
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Provide support for SecDef-designated coalition, combined, military or stability operations within statutory categories.
What this is not / limit: No support otherwise prohibited by law.
Executing role: DSCA-designated implementing agency; Army DASA(DE&C)/USASAC; Navy NIPO and systems commands; Air Force SAF/IA and implementing program offices as applicable
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Assign advisors/trainers to build ministries’ governance, internal controls, resource-management and core defense competencies.
What this is not / limit: Defense institution remit, not general economic administration of foreign countries.
Executing role: DSCA and Defense Security Cooperation University institutional-capacity-building implementers; Assigned DoD civilian/military advisors and approved support contractors
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Train U.S. forces with friendly military or similar-function national security forces and pay permitted exercise, partner and small-construction costs; special-operations training has a separate path.
What this is not / limit: Not substitute for §333 partner-capacity assistance where principal purpose differs.
Executing role: Service units and exercise contracting/support offices; USSOCOM/theater special operations commands for §322
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Reciprocal or nonreciprocal exchanges, R&D assignments to supporting foreign industry, and narrowly eligible cooperation travel/liaison support.
What this is not / limit: No oath of allegiance or official capacity in host government under §311.
Executing role: Service personnel/international offices; Host headquarters support and travel offices
Cooperation & exchanges
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Establish National Guard partnerships with foreign military, security and disaster/emergency organizations and pay eligible U.S. and foreign incremental costs.
What this is not / limit: Not authority for State governments independently to conduct U.S. foreign policy.
Executing role: National Guard Bureau; State/territory National Guard partnership coordinators
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Government-to-government sales from stocks and procurement for cash sales, with recipient undertakings to meet costs and cancellation liabilities.
What this is not / limit: Not unilateral DoD foreign-policy financing discretion.
Executing role: DSCA-designated implementing agency; Army DASA(DE&C)/USASAC; Navy NIPO and systems commands; Air Force SAF/IA and implementing program offices as applicable
Contracts & purchases
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Finance foreign defense procurement and guarantee eligible financing through Presidential/State-supervised statutory programs administered with DoD support.
What this is not / limit: Not authority for DoD to give any foreign firm a loan or guarantee for any national-security purpose.
Executing role: DSCA foreign-military-financing and financial offices; Implementing agency contracting/case offices
Loans & guarantees
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Provide temporary access to qualifying DoD stocks under AECA leasing or separate authorized assistance-loan pathways.
What this is not / limit: Cannot use ordinary 10 USC2667 property lease authority as substitute for foreign defense-article lease.
Executing role: DSCA-designated implementing agency; Army DASA(DE&C)/USASAC; Navy NIPO and systems commands; Air Force SAF/IA and implementing program offices as applicable
Loans & guaranteesProperty & leases
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Use excess-defense-article grants/sales or Presidential drawdowns under distinct statutory triggers.
What this is not / limit: EDA is not authority to buy new equipment for transfer from DoD procurement funds.
Executing role: DSCA and Service/DLA property owners; Supporting transportation and training organizations
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Perform limited medical/veterinary care, rudimentary public works, water/sanitation and related assistance serving basic civilian needs; broader humanitarian assistance has a separate funding pathway.
What this is not / limit: §401 may not directly or indirectly aid groups engaged in military/paramilitary activity.
Executing role: Service engineering/medical forces and designated implementers; DSCA humanitarian-assistance program offices
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Carry nongovernmental relief supplies on a space-available basis or, when directed by the President, provide transport, supplies, services and equipment for foreign disasters.
What this is not / limit: §402 aid not for military/paramilitary recipients.
Executing role: USTRANSCOM/Service transportation and disaster-response elements
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Provide humanitarian demining and stockpiled conventional-munitions technical assistance, training, equipment and support.
What this is not / limit: U.S. members generally cannot physically detect, lift or destroy mines under this authority unless concurrently supporting a U.S. military operation.
Executing role: Service humanitarian mine-action teams; Designated training/technical assistance and contracting offices
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Cooperative Threat Reduction supports weapons/material security, elimination, transport, bio-threat detection and partner contacts; emergent/urgent branches offer additional conditional flexibility.
What this is not / limit: §3711 permits goods/services/equipment but NOT direct cash funding of the foreign project/activity.
Executing role: DTRA CTR program and contracting offices
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Support other U.S. agencies’ foreign-assistance activities necessary to effectiveness of DoD Chapter16 programs and beyond DoD’s own authority.
What this is not / limit: Does not transfer another agency’s legal powers to DoD.
Executing role: Receiving U.S. agency with its own substantive authority; DoD/DSCA transfer and program-monitoring offices
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Host bilateral and multilateral research, discussion and training; pay eligible participant costs, receive reimbursements, and use specified grants/contracts/cooperative agreements for Irregular Warfare Center higher-education partnerships.
What this is not / limit: Cannot designate an unlisted institution as a §342 Regional Center.
Executing role: Six statutory Regional Centers; Irregular Warfare Center and Defense Security Cooperation University contracting/grants offices
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Fund U.S. participation and a share of operating costs at eligible multinational centers of excellence; furnish facilities, supplies, services and faculty support to the Inter-American Defense College.
What this is not / limit: These sections do not finance pay/salaries of participating U.S. military/civilian employees.
Executing role: Designated supporting Service or Defense component; Eligible multinational center or Inter-American Defense College support offices
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Supply internet-based education, distributed learning and computer-assisted exercise content together with software/IT needed to use it.
What this is not / limit: Not general authority to equip foreign schools or businesses with IT unrelated to authorized content.
Executing role: Authorized DoD education/training content and IT program offices; Warranted contracting offices where acquisition required
Security & information
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Intelligence, counterintelligence and security · 9 records
INT-30 · Intelligence partnership financePay expenses of foreign-country cryptologic arrangements with available intelligence/communications appropriations or qualifying other funds.
What this is not / limit: Other funds cannot support a purpose Congress denied or principally benefit the United States.
Executing role: NSA/CSS and authorized cryptologic support resource/agreement offices
Security & information
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Offset necessary/reasonable operation costs and exceptional performance awards with proceeds when appropriated funding would be impracticable.
What this is not / limit: Necessary/reasonable expenses must not otherwise be prohibited by law.
Executing role: Authorized Military Department CI components; DIA counterintelligence program and fiscal offices
Security & information
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Use ordinary commercial transactions, leases/employment contracts, financial accounts, permits and legal entities only as security for authorized DoD intelligence collection abroad.
What this is not / limit: Domestic acts only to support foreign intelligence; cannot use cover businesses to supply DoD domestically except needed for security of covered activity.
Executing role: Only Defense elements authorized by implementing regulations; public transaction-level delegations not verified
Security & information
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Use separate express expenditure mechanisms for MIP intelligence/CI and DIA NIP human-intelligence/CI purposes.
What this is not / limit: Different MIP/NIP authorities and bases must not be mixed.
Executing role: MIP program finance officials; DIA NIP HUMINT/CI finance officials
Security & information
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Establish intelligence-element transfer accounts, receive lawful DNI transfers and reimbursements, and refund balances to originating accounts.
What this is not / limit: No permission to reprogram to unrelated objects or evade appropriations controls.
Executing role: Defense intelligence element comptrollers; DoD/Treasury accounting and payment organizations
Security & information
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DIA may accept and spend partner contributions to share expenses of joint/combined military intelligence collection and analysis.
What this is not / limit: Cannot spend for a purpose Congress previously denied or acquire items/services solely for U.S. benefit.
Executing role: DIA authorized partnership and finance offices
Security & information
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Invoke statutory financial-privacy exceptions for authorized foreign-intelligence/CI requests and the separate consumer-report disclosure power for authorized international-terrorism work.
What this is not / limit: 12 USC3414(a)(5) mandatory financial-institution compliance power is specifically FBI; do not infer identical compulsory bank-record power for DoD from(a)(1).
Executing role: Properly authorized Defense CI/intelligence element and trained records-request officials
Security & information
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NSA grants support cryptologic research under an agency-specific express statutory grant authority.
What this is not / limit: Cryptologic research purpose; not unrestricted business investment or general scholarship power.
Executing role: NSA research and grants offices
Security & information
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NGA can exchange/furnish mapping, charting and geomatics data/services under agreements and use map/publication sale proceeds for foreign data-acquisition fees.
What this is not / limit: Not unrestricted sale or release of classified or protected geospatial data.
Executing role: NGA geospatial partnerships, acquisition and financial offices
Cooperation & exchangesLicensing & IPFunds & shared servicesSecurity & information
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