{
  "id": "INT-10",
  "category": "International investment",
  "capability": "Contribute to a multinational dual-use venture capital fund",
  "summary": "Make a specifically authorized contribution to the NATO Innovation Fund, rather than infer a general authority to invest equity.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2350s",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350s&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Service acquisition program/laboratory international-cooperation staff",
      "CCMD capability sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Military Department or Defense Agency program manager and comptroller"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense or validly delegated official",
      "Department of State where statute or agreement process requires"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Designated DoD contribution administrator; current implementation owner not verified",
      "NATO Innovation Fund as external fund manager"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "USD(A&S), USD(R&E), USD(P)/DTSA",
      "Foreign defense ministries or NATO organizations"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DSCA Security Assistance Management Manual, chapter 1: roles and implementing agencies",
      "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-1"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Amounts must be authorized by law for this purpose.",
    "Five-year period following FY2025 NDAA enactment (2024-12-23); aggregate statutory ceiling $200 million."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "This is fund-contribution authority, not a general permission for every DoD office to buy company shares.",
    "No conclusion that an appropriation, participation agreement or investment commitment currently exists."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Needs purpose-available authorized and appropriated funding; statutory ceiling does not supply cash."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Investment policy/resource sponsor → SecDef counsel/comptroller → verify specific authorization/funding and fund terms → contribution.",
  "availability": "Express time-limited statutory route; current U.S. participation, delegated administrator and funded amount were not established in this public-source review.",
  "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.",
  "family": "International business, logistics and investment",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Investment & capital"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "CCMD capability sponsor"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "defense-agencies",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Military Department or Defense Agency program manager and comptroller"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense or validly delegated official"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "usd-policy",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "USD(A&S), USD(R&E), USD(P)/DTSA"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "usd-research-engineering",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "USD(A&S), USD(R&E), USD(P)/DTSA"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "usd-acquisition-sustainment",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "USD(A&S), USD(R&E), USD(P)/DTSA"
    }
  ]
}