§166b Combatant commands: funding for combating terrorism readiness initiatives

Summary

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff can give money from the Combating Terrorism Readiness Initiatives Fund to a combatant command commander if the commander asks, or to an officer the Chairman picks for areas not covered by a commander. The money can start any listed physical-security activity and pay to keep that activity going in the fiscal year it starts and for one additional fiscal year. Allowed uses include buying and keeping physical security equipment, improving security sites, and, in extraordinary cases, planning, funding security forces and technicians, doing security reviews and vulnerability checks, and other physical-security work. The Chairman should put emergency or unexpected high-priority counterterrorism needs first. These funds must be extra to other money already available for the same activity. No funds may go to activities Congress has denied authorization for.