Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§430 Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Executive Agent

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART I — ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS › CHAPTER 21 — DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE MATTERS › SUBCHAPTER I — GENERAL MATTERS › § 430

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security must pick a civilian or a service member to be the Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Executive Agent. That person reports straight to the Under Secretary and works with combatant commands, military departments, and U.S. intelligence agencies to find ways to make warfighters more effective using national capabilities and to make those capabilities work across operations, training, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.

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Title 10, §430

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(a)Designation.—

The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security shall designate a civilian employee of the Department or a member of the armed forces to serve as the Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Executive Agent.

(b)Duties.—

The Executive Agent designated under subsection (a) shall—

(1)report directly to the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security;

(2)work with the combatant commands, military departments, and the intelligence community (as defined in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)) to—

(A)develop methods to increase warfighter effectiveness through the exploitation of national capabilities; and

(B)promote cross-domain integration of such capabilities into military operations, training, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance activities.

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Amendments

2021—Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 116–283 inserted “and Security” after “for Intelligence”. 2019—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 116–92 substituted “Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security” for “Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence”.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 430

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110