{
  "id": "INT-17",
  "category": "Security cooperation",
  "capability": "Pay for combined training and exercises and partner incremental expenses",
  "summary": "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.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 321",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section321&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 322",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section322&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 119-60, § 1201",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ60/html/PLAW-119publ60.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Military Department Secretary or combatant commander for §321 payments; designated combatant commanders for §322, within SecDef-approved procedures.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners",
      "Embassy SCO and Chief of Mission country team"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Training/exercise Service or CCMD available funds"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense prior approval under prescribed regulations",
      "Service Secretary or combatant commander statutory payment authority"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Service units and exercise contracting/support offices",
      "USSOCOM/theater special operations commands for §322"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Foreign partner government",
      "Department of State",
      "Export-control/foreign-disclosure officials"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DSCA Security Assistance Management Manual, chapter 1: roles and implementing agencies",
      "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-1"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Primary purpose is training U.S. forces (SOF for §322).",
    "Partner incremental-expense eligibility; developing-country restrictions/exception under §321 regulations.",
    "Required fiscal controls and reports."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Not substitute for §333 partner-capacity assistance where principal purpose differs.",
    "FY26 law removed general-purpose-force military-only restriction but retained comparable-function national-security-force qualification."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "§321 allows covered activities spanning into next fiscal year; check actual funds.",
    "Partner incremental expenses do not become general salary/budget support."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Exercise sponsor → CCMD/Service counsel and comptroller → identify §321 vs322 purpose/recipient → SecDef approval → authorized payments and reporting.",
  "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": "GovInfo2024 §§321-322 read; Pub. L.119-60 §1201 directly applied: revised eligible forces and payment categories; quarterly retrospective report replaces prospective schedule.",
  "family": "Security cooperation, assistance and education",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "allies-partners"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Training/exercise Service or CCMD available funds"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense prior approval under prescribed regulations"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "ussocom",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "USSOCOM/theater special operations commands for §322"
    }
  ]
}