{
  "id": "INT-31",
  "category": "Counterintelligence operational finance",
  "capability": "Reuse proceeds of authorized counterintelligence operations",
  "summary": "Offset necessary/reasonable operation costs and exceptional performance awards with proceeds when appropriated funding would be impracticable.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 423",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section423&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense; applies to military-department components and DIA.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination",
      "Relevant Defense intelligence element mission sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Appropriate NIP/MIP program/resource owner and agency comptroller"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Statutory holder; specific delegation must be confirmed",
      "Agency general counsel and intelligence oversight officials"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized Military Department CI components",
      "DIA counterintelligence program and fiscal offices"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "DNI for NIP matters",
      "Relevant CCMD J2 and Service intelligence staff",
      "FBI/CIA or State only where required by the activity"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "OUSD(I&S) organization: PREM, SASP, CL&S, Warfighter Support",
      "url": "https://ousdi.defense.gov/About-Us/Organization/"
    },
    {
      "title": "DIA Finance and Acquisition career field: programming, budgeting, allocating, contracting",
      "url": "https://www.dia.mil/Careers/Career-Fields/Finance-Acquisition/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Army Counterintelligence Command mission and organization",
      "url": "https://www.army.mil/acic"
    },
    {
      "title": "NCIS field offices, including Economic Crimes and Cyber Operations",
      "url": "https://www.ncis.navy.mil/About-NCIS/Locations/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Air Force OSI: support to the Air Force and Space Force",
      "url": "https://www.osi.af.mil/News/Commentaries/Display/Article/2379116/important-strategic-steps-by-osi-support-usaf-and-ussf/"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Authorized underlying counterintelligence operation.",
    "SecDef authorization and finding of impracticability of appropriated funds; internal accounting controls."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Necessary/reasonable expenses must not otherwise be prohibited by law.",
    "Net proceeds no longer needed for operation must be deposited as miscellaneous receipts.",
    "Does not grant general commercial-enterprise or intelligence-operation authority."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Express limited exception to 31 USC3302 receipts rule."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "CI operation sponsor → legal/fiscal justification → SecDef/valid delegate → controlled receipts use and residual Treasury deposit.",
  "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": "Intelligence, counterintelligence and security",
  "mechanisms": [
    "Security & information"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "technology-protection"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "usd-intelligence-security",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "ddi-prem",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "ddi-warfighter-support",
      "role": "planner",
      "label": "USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "comptrollers",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Appropriate NIP/MIP program/resource owner and agency comptroller"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "counsel-award-officials",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Agency general counsel and intelligence oversight officials"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "dia",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "DIA counterintelligence program and fiscal offices"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Relevant CCMD J2 and Service intelligence staff"
    }
  ]
}