{
  "id": "INT-29",
  "category": "Special operations support",
  "capability": "Support partners facilitating ongoing authorized U.S. counterterrorism operations",
  "summary": "Provide eligible material or financial support to foreign forces, irregular forces, groups or individuals supporting authorized U.S. SOF operations.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 127e",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section127e&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense personally; funding-availability decision is nondelegable; relevant Chief of Mission concurrence.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "USSOCOM/theater special operations planners",
      "ASD(SO/LIC) policy oversight"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Purpose-available DoD O&M"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense personally",
      "Relevant Chief of Mission"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized special operations program execution and support offices"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "State country team",
      "Other Federal agencies as procedures require"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "10 U.S.C. § 127e",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section127e&num=0&edition=prelim"
    },
    {
      "title": "DSCA Security Assistance Management Manual, chapter 1: roles and implementing agencies",
      "url": "https://samm.dsca.mil/chapter/chapter-1"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Existing authorized ongoing U.S. SOF counterterrorism operation.",
    "Legal review, recipient human-rights checks, Chief of Mission concurrence and statutory notices."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Not authorization for covert action or for introduction into hostilities; no support inconsistent with law of armed conflict.",
    "Statutory annual support ceiling $100m; distinct from actual resource allocation."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "O&M amounts legally available for that fiscal year."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Operational sponsor → SO/LIC/State/legal/resource review → SecDef nondelegable approval → notice and controlled support.",
  "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": "ussocom",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USSOCOM/theater special operations planners"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense personally"
    }
  ]
}