---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 1457"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "1457"
heading: "Rendition of technical and other services to foreign governments; limitations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/1457"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — United States Information and Educational Exchange Programs"
  - "Subchapter IV — Participation by Government Agencies"
---

# §1457. Rendition of technical and other services to foreign governments; limitations


A [Government agency](/usc/22/1433.md?p=3), at the request of the [Secretary](/usc/22/1433.md?p=1), may perform such technical or other services as such agency may be competent to render for the government of another country desirous of obtaining such services, upon terms and conditions which are satisfactory to the [Secretary](/usc/22/1433.md?p=1) and to the head of the [Government agency](/usc/22/1433.md?p=3), when it is determined by the [Secretary](/usc/22/1433.md?p=1) that such services will contribute to the purposes of this chapter. However, nothing in this chapter shall authorize the performance of services relating to the organization, training, operation, development, or combat equipment of the armed forces of a foreign government.


## Source credit

(Jan. 27, 1948, ch. 36, title IV, § 402, 62 Stat. 9.)