10 U.S.C. § 2350e: NATO Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) program: authority of Secretary of Defense

Auditing. Quality assurance. Codification. Inspection. Contract administration. Acceptance testing. Certification services. Planning, programming, and management services. Waive any surcharge for administrative services otherwise chargeable. program losses resulting from the gross negligence of any contracting officer of the United States; identifiable taxes, customs duties, and other charges levied within the United States on the program; and the United States share of the unfunded termination liability. Authority under this section to enter into contracts shall be effective for any fiscal year only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts. the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Ministers of Defence on the NATO E–3A Cooperative Programme, signed by the Secretary of Defense on December 6, 1978 ; the Memorandum of Understanding for Operations and Support of the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Force, signed by the United States Ambassador to NATO on September 26, 1984 ; the Addendum to the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding Between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Ministers of Defence on the NATO E–3A Cooperative Programme (dated December 6, 1978 ) relating to the modernization of the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control (NAEW&C) System, dated December 7, 1990 ; and any other follow-on support agreement for the NATO E–3A Cooperative Programme.