Federal · Title 10 — Armed Forces
10 U.S.C. § 122a: Public availability of Department of Defense reports required by law
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posting the report on a publicly accessible Internet website of the Department of Defense; and upon request, transmitting the report by other means, as long as such transmission is at no cost to the Department. Except as provided in paragraph (2), a report described in this subsection is any report that is required by law to be submitted to Congress by the Secretary of Defense, or by any element of the Department of Defense. classified information; proprietary information; information that is exempt from disclosure under section 552 of title 5 (commonly referred to as the “Freedom of Information Act”); or any other type of information that the Secretary of Defense determines should not be made available to the public in the interest of national security. Not later than January 1 and July 1 of each year, the Secretary of Defense shall make publicly available on an appropriate internet website a summary of all reports submitted to Congress by the Department of Defense for the preceding six-month period that are required to be submitted by statute. Each such summary shall include, for each report covered by the summary, the title of report, the date of delivery, and the section of law under which such report is required. Except as provided in subsection (b), the Secretary of Defense shall make publicly available, on a quarterly basis, on a website of the Department the top-line numbers of members of the Armed Forces deployed for each country as of the date of the submittal of the report and the total number of members of the Armed Forces so deployed during the quarter covered by the report. the Secretary determines the public disclosure of the number of deployed members of the Armed Forces could reasonably be expected to provide an operational military advantage to an adversary; or members of the Armed Forces are deployed for a period that does not exceed 30 days. a notice of the waiver; and the reasons for the determination to issue the waiver. The term ‘sensitive military operation’ has the meaning given that term in section 130f(d) of title 10 , United States Code.” The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and the Director of the Bureau of Economic Analysis, shall post on the public Internet website of the Department of Defense the costs to each United States taxpayer of any contingency operation conducted by the United States Armed Forces on or after September 18, 2001 . be posted directly on the website of the Department of Defense, in an accessible and clear format; include corresponding documentation as links or attachments; and include, for each contingency operation, a list of countries where the contingency operation has taken place. The Secretary shall ensure that all the information required to be posted under subsection (a) is updated by not later than 90 days after the last day of each fiscal year. In this section, the term ‘contingency operation’ has the meaning given such term in section 101(a)(13) of title 10 , United States Code.”
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