{
  "id": "INT-35",
  "category": "Intelligence partnership finance",
  "capability": "Accept foreign funding for joint military intelligence collection and analysis",
  "summary": "DIA may accept and spend partner contributions to share expenses of joint/combined military intelligence collection and analysis.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "Pub. L. 118-31, § 1621",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-118publ31/html/PLAW-118publ31.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "10 USC chapter21 note; authority expires2028-12-31."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Director of DIA in coordination with DNI.",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "USD(I&S) PREM and Warfighter Support: requirements/resource coordination",
      "Relevant Defense intelligence element mission sponsor"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Accepted foreign-partner funds for shared activities"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Director DIA",
      "Director of National Intelligence coordination"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "DIA authorized partnership and finance 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/"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Joint/combined military intelligence activity and partner expense sharing.",
    "Annual reports identifying partners and purposes."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Cannot spend for a purpose Congress previously denied or acquire items/services solely for U.S. benefit.",
    "Public law does not create blanket operational intelligence powers or unrestricted donations authority."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Specific foreign-partner receipts; statutory acceptance/expenditure authority ends2028-12-31."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "DIA partner requirement → DNI coordination and legal/fiscal review → contribution arrangement → joint-expense accounting/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": "Enacted PL118-31§1621 reproduced in GovInfo2024 chapter21 note read; corroborated OLRC current indexed chapter21 front matter. Sunset2028-12-31; later amendment delta not certified.",
  "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": "approver",
      "label": "Director DIA"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "dia",
      "role": "executor",
      "label": "DIA authorized partnership and finance offices"
    },
    {
      "office_id": "combatant-commands",
      "role": "partners",
      "label": "Relevant CCMD J2 and Service intelligence staff"
    }
  ]
}