{
  "id": "INT-33",
  "category": "Intelligence special expenditure",
  "capability": "Pay confidential, extraordinary or emergency intelligence expenses",
  "summary": "Use separate express expenditure mechanisms for MIP intelligence/CI and DIA NIP human-intelligence/CI purposes.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "10 U.S.C. § 429a",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section429a&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": ""
    },
    {
      "citation": "50 U.S.C. § 3038",
      "url": "https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section3038&num=0&edition=prelim",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Subsection(c) is DIA NIP expenditure authority, not general agency exemption."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Secretary of Defense for MIP; Director DIA for specified DIA NIP amounts.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination",
      "Relevant Defense intelligence element mission sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "MIP intelligence/CI funds",
      "DIA NIP HUMINT/CI funds"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Secretary of Defense: MIP >$200k expenditure cannot be delegated",
      "Director DIA: statutory NIP certification"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "MIP program finance officials",
      "DIA NIP HUMINT/CI finance officials"
    ],
    "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/"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Confidential/extraordinary/emergency object and certification for each expenditure.",
    "Above five percent of relevant fiscal-year amounts requires notice and 30-day wait; annual reports."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Different MIP/NIP authorities and bases must not be mixed.",
    "Expenditure flexibility is not an independent authority to conduct activities otherwise unlawful.",
    "§429a is exclusive MIP authority for these objects, rather than §127."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Only amounts made available to specified intelligence programs; no independent funding stream."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Intelligence mission need → proper MIP/NIP account → legal/object certification → statutory approval/notice → controlled disbursement 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": "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": "dia",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "DIA NIP HUMINT/CI funds"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "secretary-deputy-secretary",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Secretary of Defense: MIP >$200k expenditure cannot be delegated"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "dia",
      "role": "approver",
      "label": "Director DIA: statutory NIP certification"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "dia",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "DIA NIP HUMINT/CI finance officials"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Relevant CCMD J2 and Service intelligence staff"
    }
  ]
}