{
  "id": "INT-12",
  "category": "International medical cooperation",
  "capability": "Partner across Five Eyes military medical research, logistics and care interoperability",
  "summary": "Enter Five Eyes agreements covering medical R&D/trials, education, credentialing, biodefense, logistics and patient movement.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 2350t",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section2350t&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 715",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "New codified authority and agreement/activity reporting."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "ASD(Health Affairs), Defense Health Agency and Service medical sponsors"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Relevant medical RDT&E/O&M or other authorized program appropriation"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense or documented authorized agreement official"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DHA/Service medical research and operational medical organizations"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom defense-medical authorities",
      "State/foreign-disclosure partners as applicable"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DSCA Security Assistance Management Manual, chapter 1: roles and implementing agencies",
      "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-1"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Bilateral/multilateral MOU or formal agreement with listed Five Eyes countries.",
    "Annual statutory reporting on agreements/activities and additional areas SecDef designates."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Agreement authority alone does not waive drug regulation, human-subject rules, licensing or fiscal law.",
    "Does not itself provide money."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Program-specific available funding; no contribution or loan authority inferred beyond express text."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Medical capability need → DHA/Service research or operational sponsor → agreement/legal/fiscal review → Five Eyes arrangement → accountable execution.",
  "availability": "Existing statutory pathway; conditional on the listed findings, approvals, eligible purpose and actual available funds. Not an obligation-ready certification.",
  "confidence": "High on express statutory capability; execution/delegation and currently available resources require program-specific confirmation.",
  "currentness": "New §2350t enacted in Pub. L. 119-60 §715 on 2025-12-18; enacted text read. First annual report due one year after enactment. Later amendment delta not certified.",
  "family": "International business, logistics and investment",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense or documented authorized agreement official"
    }
  ]
}