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

Summary

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff may use money from the Combating Terrorism Readiness Initiatives Fund to give funds to a combatant commander who asks, or to an officer the Chairman names for areas outside any commander’s region. The money can start activities listed below and keep them going in the fiscal year started and for one more fiscal year. Allowed uses include buying and maintaining physical security equipment, improving security sites, and, in extraordinary cases, security planning, support for security forces and technicians, security reviews and vulnerability checks, and other physical-security work. The Chairman should give priority to emergency or unforeseen high‑priority terrorism needs. These funds are in addition to other available funds for the same activity and cannot be used for anything Congress has denied.