---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 382"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "382"
heading: "Execution and administration of programs and activities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/382"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 16 — Security Cooperation"
  - "Subchapter VII — Administrative and Miscellaneous Matters"
---

# §382. Execution and administration of programs and activities

- (a) **Policy Oversight and Resource Allocation.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall assign responsibility for the oversight of strategic policy and guidance and responsibility for overall resource allocation for [security cooperation programs and activities of the Department of Defense](/usc/10/301.md?p=7) to a single official and office in the Office of the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense at the level of Under [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense or below.
- (b) **Execution and Administration of Certain Programs and Activities.—**
  - (1) **In general.—** The Director of the Defense Security Cooperation [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) shall be responsible for the execution and administration of all [security cooperation programs and activities of the Department of Defense](/usc/10/301.md?p=7) involving the provision of [defense articles](/usc/10/301.md?p=2), [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9), and other defense-related services by grant, loan, cash sale, or lease.
  - (2) **Designation of responsibility.—** The Director may designate an element of an armed force, combatant command, [Defense Agency](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-11), [Department of Defense Field Activity](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-12), or other element or organization of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense to execute and administer security cooperation [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) and activities described in [paragraph (1)](#b-1) if the Director determines that the designation will achieve maximum effectiveness, efficiency, and economy in the activities for which designated.
- (c) **Availability of Funds.—**
  - (1) **In general.—** Funds available to the Defense Security Cooperation [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3), and other funds available to the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense for [security cooperation programs and activities of the Department of Defense](/usc/10/301.md?p=7), may be used to implement [security cooperation programs and activities of the Department of Defense](/usc/10/301.md?p=7) authorized by this chapter.
  - (2) **Budget justification.—** Funds necessary for implementing [security cooperation programs and activities of the Department of Defense](/usc/10/301.md?p=7) under this chapter for a fiscal year shall be identified, with appropriate justification, in the consolidated budget for such fiscal year required by [section 381 of this title](/usc/10/381.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XII, § 1241(m), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2509.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 382 was renumbered section 282 of this title.