§166b Combatant Commands: Funding for Combating Terrorism Readiness Initiatives

Summary

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff can use money from the Combating Terrorism Readiness Initiatives Fund to give to a combatant commander who asks, or to an officer the Chairman picks for areas not covered by a commander. The money can start a security activity and keep it going for the year it starts and one additional fiscal year. Allowed uses include buying and keeping physical security equipment, improving security sites, and in rare cases planning, hiring/supporting security forces and technicians, doing security reviews and vulnerability checks, or other physical-security work. The Chairman should put emergency or sudden high‑priority counterterrorism needs first. These funds must be extra to other money available for the same work and cannot pay for any activity Congress has denied.