Sec. 1207. Cross servicing agreements for loan of personnel protection and personnel survivability equipment in coalition operations
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Subchapter I of chapter 138 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 2342 the following new section: The Secretary of Defense may, with the concurrence of the Secretary of State, enter into an arrangement, under an agreement concluded pursuant to section 2342 of this title, under which the United States agrees to loan personnel protection and personnel survivability equipment for the use of such equipment by military forces of a nation participating with the United States in a coalition operation as part of a contingency operation or a peacekeeping operation under the Charter of the United Nations or another international agreement.
Equipment may be loaned to the military forces of a nation under the authority of this section only upon a determination by the Secretary of Defense that the United States forces in the coalition operation concerned have no unfulfilled requirements for such equipment. Equipment loaned to the military forces of a nation under the authority of this section may be used by those forces only for personnel protection or to aid in the personnel survivability of those forces and only in a coalition operation with the United States described in subsection (a).
Equipment loaned to the military forces of a nation under the authority of this section may be used by the military forces of that nation for the duration of that country’s participation in the coalition operation concerned. In the case of equipment loaned under the authority of this section that is damaged or destroyed as a result of combat operations during coalition operations while held by forces to which loaned under this section, the Secretary of Defense may, with respect to such equipment, waive any other applicable requirement under this subchapter for— reimbursement; replacement-in-kind; or exchange of supplies or services of an equal value.
Any waiver under this subsection may be made only if the Secretary determines that the waiver is in the national security interest of the United States. Any waiver under this subsection may be made only on a case-by-case basis. If the authority provided under this section is exercised during a fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense shall, in coordination with the Secretary of State, submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the exercise of such authority by not later than October 30 of the year in which such fiscal year ends.
Each report on the exercise of such authority shall specify the recipient country of the equipment loaned, the type of equipment loaned, and the duration of the loan of such equipment. . The table of sections at the beginning of subchapter I of chapter 138 of such title is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 2342 the following new item: 2342a. Cross-servicing agreements: use for loan of personnel protection and personnel survivability equipment in coalition operations. .
Section 2350 of such title is amended by adding at end the following new paragraphs: The term personnel protection and personnel survivability equipment means items designated as significant military equipment in categories I, II, III, VII, XI, XIII of the United States Munitions List under section 38(a)(1) of the Arms Export Control Act ( 22 U.S.C. 2778(a)(1) that the Secretary of Defense designates as available for loan under section 2342a of this title. The term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. .
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Cross servicing agreements for loan of personnel protection and personnel survivability equipment in coalition operations
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