--- kind: "section" citation: "10 U.S.C. § 444" title: "10" title_heading: "Armed Forces" number: "444" heading: "Support from Central Intelligence Agency" release: "119-102" date: "2026-07-12" url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/444" units: - "Subtitle A — General Military Law" - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers" - "Chapter 22 — National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency" - "Subchapter I — Missions and Authority" --- # §444. Support from Central Intelligence Agency - (a) **Support Authorized.—** The Director of the Central Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) may provide support in accordance with this section to the Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3). The Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) may accept support provided under this section. - (b) **Administrative and Contract Services.—** - (1) In furtherance of the national intelligence effort, the Director of the Central Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) may provide administrative and contract services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) as if that [agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) were an organizational element of the Central Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3). - (2) Services provided under [paragraph (1)](#b-1) may include the services of security police. For purposes of section 15 of the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 ([50 U.S.C. 3515](/usc/50/3515.md)), an installation of the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) that is provided security police services under this section shall be considered an installation of the Central Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3). - (3) Support provided under this subsection shall be provided under terms and conditions agreed upon by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense and the Director of the Central Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3). - (c) **Detail of Personnel.—** The Director of the Central Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) may detail personnel of the Central Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) indefinitely to the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) without regard to any limitation on the duration of interagency details of Federal Government personnel. - (d) **Reimbursable or Nonreimbursable Support.—** Support under this section may be provided and accepted on either a reimbursable basis or a nonreimbursable basis. - (e) **Authority To Transfer Funds.—** - (1) The Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) may transfer funds available for that [agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) to the Director of the Central Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) for the Central Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3). - (2) The Director of the Central Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3)— - (A) may accept funds transferred under [paragraph (1)](#e-1); and - (B) shall expend such funds, in accordance with the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 ([50 U.S.C. 3501](/usc/50/3501.md) et seq.), to provide administrative and contract services or detail personnel to the National Geospatial-Intelligence [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) under this section. ## Source credit (Added Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XI, § 1112(a)(2), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2680; amended Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title IX, § 921(d)(2)(A), Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1568; Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title IX, § 931(b)(2), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 285; Pub. L. 110–417, [div. A], title IX, § 932(c), Oct. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 4576; Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title X, § 1073(c)(10), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2475; Pub. L. 113–291, div. A, title X, § 1071(c)(7), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3509.) ## Notes ### Editorial Notes ### References in Text The Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949, referred to in subsec. (e)(2)(B), is act June 20, 1949, ch. 227, 63 Stat. 208, which is classified generally to chapter 46 (§ 3501 et seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. ### Amendments 2014—Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 113–291, § 1071(c)(7)(A), substituted “(50 U.S.C. 3515)” for “(50 U.S.C. 403o)”. Subsec. (e)(2)(B). Pub. L. 113–291, § 1071(c)(7)(B), substituted “(50 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.)” for “(50 U.S.C. 403a et seq.)”. 2009—Pub. L. 111–84 repealed Pub. L. 110–417, § 932(c). See 2008 Amendment note below. 2008—Pub. L. 110–181 and Pub. L. 110–417, § 932(c), amended section identically, substituting “Director of the Central Intelligence Agency” for “Director of Central Intelligence” wherever appearing. Pub. L. 110–417, § 932(c), was repealed by Pub. L. 111–84. 2003—Subsecs. (a), (b)(1), (2), (c), (e)(1), (2)(B). Pub. L. 108–136 substituted “National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency” for “National Imagery and Mapping Agency” wherever appearing. ### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries ### Effective Date of 2009 Amendment Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title X, § 1073(c), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2474, provided that the amendment made by section 1073(c)(10) is effective as of Oct. 14, 2008, and as if included in Pub. L. 110–417 as enacted. ### Effective Date Section effective Oct. 1, 1996, see section 1124 of Pub. L. 104–201, set out as an Effective Date of 1996 Amendment note under section 193 of this title.