---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 430"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "430"
heading: "Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Executive Agent"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/430"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 21 — Department of Defense Intelligence Matters"
  - "Subchapter I — General Matters"
---

# §430. Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Executive Agent

- (a) **Designation.—** The Under [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense for Intelligence and Security shall designate a civilian employee of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) or a member of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) to serve as the Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Executive Agent.
- (b) **Duties.—** The Executive Agent designated under [subsection (a)](#a) shall—
  - (1) report directly to the Under [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense for Intelligence and Security;
  - (2) work with the combatant commands, [military departments](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-8), and the intelligence community (as defined in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 ([50 U.S.C. 3003(4)](/usc/50/3003.md?p=4)) to—
    - (A) develop methods to increase warfighter effectiveness through the exploitation of national capabilities; and
    - (B) promote cross-domain integration of such capabilities into [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) operations, [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9), intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance activities.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 113–291, div. A, title XVI, § 1621(a), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3631; amended Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title XVI, § 1621(e)(1)(A)(viii), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1733; Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title X, § 1081(a)(17), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3871.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 116–283 inserted “and Security” after “for Intelligence”.

2019—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–92 substituted “Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security” for “Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence”.