10 U.S.C. § 429 — Appropriations for Defense intelligence elements: accounts for transfers; transfer authority

(a) Accounts for Appropriations for Defense Intelligence Elements
The Secretary of Defense may move Department of Defense money that is available for Defense intelligence elements into one or more special accounts set up to receive these transfers. Money from the Director of National Intelligence can also go into these accounts, if the transfer follows section 102A of the National Security Act of 1947. So can transfers and reimbursements that come from lawful transactions between a Defense intelligence element and some other entity. Any leftover money in these accounts can be transferred back to the account it came from, as a kind of refund.

(b) Recordation of Transfers
Every transfer made under subsection (a) must be recorded as an expenditure transfer.

(c) Availability of Funds
Money transferred under subsection (a) keeps the same rules it started with. It stays available for the same length of time and for the same purpose as the original appropriation, and it stays subject to the same legal limits.

(d) Obligation and Expenditure of Funds
Unless some other law specifically allows something different, money transferred under subsection (a) can only be obligated and spent according to chapter 15 of title 31 of the U.S. Code and any other law that applies.

(e) Defense Intelligence Element Defined
In this section, "Defense intelligence element" means any Department of Defense agency^*, office, or part that falls under the definition of "intelligence community" in section 3(4) of the National Security Act of 1947.