{
  "id": "INT-27",
  "category": "Cooperative threat reduction",
  "capability": "Supply goods, equipment and services to reduce foreign WMD proliferation threats",
  "summary": "Cooperative Threat Reduction supports weapons/material security, elimination, transport, bio-threat detection and partner contacts; emergent/urgent branches offer additional conditional flexibility.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 3711",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3711&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 3712",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3712&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 3713",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3713&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; urgent ungoverned-area branch requires President.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "USD(P) threat-reduction policy",
      "DTRA CTR Directorate and CCMD partner planners"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "CTR appropriation/program account"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense",
      "State concurrence; Energy concurrence for specified urgent governed-area branch",
      "President for urgent ungoverned-area branch"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DTRA CTR program and contracting offices"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Foreign partner governments",
      "State, Energy and other reimbursed federal agencies"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "DTRA Cooperative Threat Reduction Directorate",
      "url": "https://www.dtra.mil/About/Mission/Cooperative-Threat-Reduction/"
    },
    {
      "title": "DSCA Security Assistance Management Manual, chapter 1: roles and implementing agencies",
      "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-1"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Authorized proliferation-reduction purpose; eligible agreements and legal country conditions.",
    "Normally 15-day obligation notice; urgent statutory branch has specified findings and different notices.",
    "Emergent projects generally completed within five years and DoD best capable, subject to statutory exception."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "§3711 permits goods/services/equipment but NOT direct cash funding of the foreign project/activity.",
    "Urgent notwithstanding-law branch capped at 15% of fiscal-year CTR funds; not a general waiver for unrelated missions."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "CTR funds legally available; reimburse other U.S. agencies for participation where authorized."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "WMD risk requirement → DTRA/CCMD and State/Energy → branch-specific findings/notice → DTRA acquisition/partner project.",
  "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": "usd-policy",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(P) threat-reduction policy"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "DTRA CTR Directorate and CCMD partner planners"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense"
    }
  ]
}