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[CITE: 10USC2350i]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
CHAPTER 138--COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS WITH NATO ALLIES AND OTHER COUNTRIES
 
               SUBCHAPTER II--OTHER COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS
 
Sec. 2350i. Foreign contributions for cooperative projects

    (a) Crediting of Contributions.--Whenever the United States 
participates in a cooperative project with a friendly foreign country or 
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on a cost-sharing basis, 
any contribution received by the United States from that foreign country 
or NATO to meet its share of the costs of the project may be credited to 
appropriations available to an appropriate military department or 
another appropriate organization within the Department of Defense, as 
determined by the Secretary of Defense.
    (b) Use of Amounts Credited.--The amount of a contribution credited 
pursuant to subsection (a) to an appropriation account in connection 
with a cooperative project referred to in that subsection shall be 
available only for payment of the share of the project expenses 
allocated to the foreign country or NATO making the contribution. 
Payments for which such amount is available include the following:
        (1) Payments to contractors and other suppliers (including the 
    Department of Defense and other participants acting as suppliers) 
    for necessary articles and services.
        (2) Payments for any damages and costs resulting from the 
    performance or cancellation of any contract or other obligation.
        (3) Payments or reimbursements of other program expenses, 
    including program office overhead and administrative costs.
        (4) Refunds to other participants.

    (c) Definitions.--In this section:
        (1) The term ``cooperative project'' means a jointly managed 
    arrangement, described in a written cooperative agreement entered 
    into by the participants, that--
            (A) is undertaken by the participants in order to improve 
        the conventional defense capabilities of the participants; and
            (B) provides for--
                (i) one or more participants (other than the United 
            States) to share with the United States the cost of research 
            and development, testing, evaluation, or joint production 
            (including follow-on support) of defense articles;
                (ii) the United States and another participant 
            concurrently to produce in the United States and the country 
            of such other participant a defense article jointly 
            developed in a cooperative project described in clause (i); 
            or
                (iii) the United States to procure a defense article or 
            a defense service from another participant in the 
            cooperative project.

        (2) The term ``defense article'' has the meaning given such term 
    in section 47(3) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2794(3)).
        (3) The term ``defense service'' has the meaning given such term 
    in section 47(4) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2794(4)).

(Added Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title X, Sec. 1047(a), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 
Stat. 1467.)
