{
  "id": "INT-23",
  "category": "Security assistance transfers",
  "capability": "Transfer excess articles or draw down existing resources for authorized partner needs",
  "summary": "Use excess-defense-article grants/sales or Presidential drawdowns under distinct statutory triggers.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2321j",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2321j&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "22 U.S.C. § 2318",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section2318&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "President; State supervision and DoD implementing agencies.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Geographic or functional CCMD security-cooperation planners",
      "Embassy SCO and Chief of Mission country team"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "DSCA and the specified program appropriation holder",
      "Service/Defense Agency comptroller"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "President/authorized delegate",
      "State and applicable congressional notification"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DSCA and Service/DLA property owners",
      "Supporting transportation and training organizations"
    ],
    "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": [
    "EDA drawn from existing stocks; readiness/industrial-base findings and recipient justification.",
    "Drawdown emergency/national-interest or Taiwan-specific statutory branch must fit; applicable notices and ceilings."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "EDA is not authority to buy new equipment for transfer from DoD procurement funds.",
    "EDA crating/transport costs have restrictions and limited exception.",
    "Drawdown authorization does not automatically fund replacement of U.S. stocks."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Value ceilings and replacement/transport appropriations separate; country-specific supplemental law may modify general ceilings."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Strategic requirement → State/President pathway choice → Service inventory/readiness → DSCA transfer case → transport/end-use/accountability.",
  "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": "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": "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": "comptrollers",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Service/Defense Agency comptroller"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "defense-agencies",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Service/Defense Agency comptroller"
    }
  ]
}