Federal

Title 10 — Armed Forces

4,032 sections, each with the official text and a plain-English explanation of what it means for you.

• § 3863 — Retention of amounts collected from contractor during the pendency of contract dispute
• § 3864 — Assumption of uninsurable risk on certain contracts
• § 3901 — Contracts: prohibition on competition between Department of Defense and small businesses
• § 3902 — Credit for Indian contracting in meeting certain subcontracting goals for small disadvantaged businesses
• § 3903 — Subcontracting plans: credit for certain purchases
• § 3904 — Omitted]
• § 3905 — Products of Federal Prison Industries: procedural requirements
• § 391 — Reporting on cyber incidents with respect to networks and information systems of operationally critical contractors and certain other contractors
• § 391a — Annual reports on support by military departments for United States Cyber Command
• § 391b — Strategic cybersecurity program
• § 392 — Executive agents for cyber test and training ranges
• § 392a — Principal Cyber Advisors
• § 393 — Reporting on penetrations of networks and information systems of certain contractors
• § 394 — Authorities concerning military cyber operations
• § 395 — Notification requirements for sensitive military cyber operations
• § 396 — Notification requirements for cyber weapons
• § 397 — Principal Information Operations Advisor
• § 398 — Military information support operations in information environment
• § 398a — Pilot program for sharing cyber capabilities and related information with foreign operational partners
• § 399 — Notifications relating to military operations in the information environment: requirement to notify Chief of Mission
• § 4001 — Research and development projects
• § 4002, 4003 — Omitted]
• § 4004 — Contract authority for development and demonstration of initial or additional prototype units
• § 4007 — Science and technology programs to be conducted so as to foster the transition of science and technology to higher levels of research, development, test, and evaluation
• § 4008, 4009 — Omitted]
• § 401 — Humanitarian and civic assistance provided in conjunction with military operations
• § 4010 — Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
• § 4014 — Coordination and communication of defense research activities and technology domain awareness
• § 4015 — Omitted]
• § 402 — Transportation of humanitarian relief supplies to foreign countries
• § 4021 — Research projects: transactions other than contracts and grants
• § 4022 — Authority of the Department of Defense to carry out certain prototype projects
• § 4023 — Procurement for experimental purposes
• § 4024 — Merit-based award of grants for research and development
• § 4025 — Prizes for advanced technology achievements
• § 4026 — Cooperative research and development agreements under Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980
• § 4027 — Disclosure requirements for recipients of research and development funds
• § 403 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title X, § 1061(g)(1) , Feb. 10, 1996 , 110 Stat. 443 ]
• § 404 — Foreign disaster assistance
• § 405 — Use of Department of Defense funds for United States share of costs of United Nations peacekeeping activities: limitation
• § 406 — Renumbered § 401(f)]
• § 4061 — Defense Research and Development Rapid Innovation Program
• § 4062 — Defense Acquisition Challenge Program
• § 4063 to 4065 — Omitted]
• § 4066 — Global Research Watch Program
• § 4067 — Technology protection features activities
• § 407 — Humanitarian demining assistance and stockpiled conventional munitions assistance: authority; limitations
• § 408 — Assistance in support of Department of Defense accounting for missing United States Government personnel
• § 409 — Center for Complex Operations
• § 4091 — Authorities for certain positions at science and technology reinvention laboratories
• § 4092 — Personnel management authority to attract experts in science, engineering, and certain other disciplines
• § 4093 — Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Defense Education Program
• § 4094 — Enhanced pay authority for certain research and technology positions in science and technology reinvention laboratories
• § 410 — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title V, § 571(a)(1) , Feb. 10, 1996 , 110 Stat. 353 ]
• § 4121 — Science and technology reinvention laboratories: authority and designation
• § 4123 — Mechanisms to provide funds for defense laboratories and test organizations for research and development of technologies for military missions
• § 4124 — Centers for Science, Technology, and Engineering Partnership
• § 4125 — Functions of Defense research facilities
• § 4126 — Use of federally funded research and development centers
• § 4127 — Defense Innovation Unit
• § 4128 — Laboratory Quality Enhancement Program
• § 4129 — Joint Federated Assurance Center
• § 4141 — Award of grants and contracts to colleges and universities: requirement of competition
• § 4142 — Extramural acquisition innovation and research activities
• § 4143 — Research and development laboratories: contracts for services of university students
• § 4144 — Research and educational programs and activities: historically black colleges and universities and minority-serving institutions of higher education
• § 4145 — Program for the enhancement of the research, development, test, and evaluation centers of the Department of Defense
• § 4146, 4147 — Omitted]
• § 4171 — Operational test and evaluation of defense acquisition programs
• § 4172 — Major systems and munitions programs: survivability testing and lethality testing required before full-scale production
• § 4173 — Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center
• § 4174 — Contracts: acquisition, construction, or furnishing of test facilities and equipment
• § 4175 — Use of test and evaluation installations by commercial entities
• § 4201 — Major defense acquisition programs: definition; exceptions
• § 4202 — Authority to increase definitional threshold amounts: major defense acquisition programs; major systems
• § 4203 — Major subprograms
• § 4204 — Milestone decision authority
• § 4205 — Weapon systems for which procurement funding requested in budget: development and procurement schedules
• § 421 — Funds for foreign cryptologic support
• § 4211 — Acquisition strategy
• § 4212 — Risk management and mitigation in major defense acquisition programs and major systems
• § 4214 — Baseline description
• § 422 — Use of funds for certain incidental purposes
• § 423 — Authority to use proceeds from counterintelligence operations of the military departments or the Defense Intelligence Agency
• § 4231 — Major systems: determination of quantity for low-rate initial production
• § 4232 — Prohibition on use of lowest price technically acceptable source selection process
• § 4236 — Negotiation of price for technical data before development, production, or sustainment of major weapon systems
• § 424 — Disclosure of organizational and personnel information: exemption for specified intelligence agencies
• § 425 — Prohibition of unauthorized use of name, initials, or seal: specified intelligence agencies
• § 4251 — Major defense acquisition programs: factors to be considered before Milestone A approval
• § 4252 — Major defense acquisition programs: factors to be considered before Milestone B approval
• § 4253 — Major defense acquisition programs: submissions to Congress on Milestone C
• § 426 — Integration of Department of Defense intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities
• § 427 — Conflict Records Research Center
• § 4271 — Program cost, fielding, and performance goals in planning major defense acquisition programs
• § 4272 — Independent technical risk assessments
• § 4273 — Performance assessments and root cause analyses
• § 4274 — Omitted]
• § 428 — Defense industrial security
• § 429 — Appropriations for Defense intelligence elements: accounts for transfers; transfer authority
• § 4292 — Contracts: limitations on lead system integrators
• § 4293 — Major defense acquisition programs: incentive program for contractors to purchase capital assets manufactured in United States
• § 429a — Expenditure of funds for Department of Defense intelligence and counterintelligence activities
• § 430 — Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities Executive Agent
• § 430a — Executive agent for management and oversight of alternative compensatory control measures
• § 430b — Executive agent for open-source intelligence tools
• § 430c — Senior Intelligence Oversight Official
• § 430d — Cyber intelligence capability
• § 430e — Vendor support to clandestine activities
• § 431 — Authority to engage in commercial activities as security for intelligence collection activities
• § 432 — Use, disposition, and auditing of funds
• § 4321 — Development of major defense acquisition programs: sustainment of system to be replaced
• § 4323 — Sustainment reviews
• § 4324 — Life-cycle management and product support
• § 4325 — Major weapon systems: assessment, management, and control of operating and support costs
• § 4328 — Weapon system design: sustainment factors
• § 433 — Relationship with other Federal laws
• § 434 — Reservation of defenses and immunities
• § 435 — Limitations
• § 4350 — Omitted]
• § 4351 — Selected Acquisition Reports
• § 4352 to 4358 — Omitted]
• § 436 — Regulations
• § 437 — Congressional oversight
• § 4371 — Cost growth definitions; applicability of reporting requirements; constant base year dollars
• § 4372 — Unit cost reports: quarterly report from program manager to service acquisition executive
• § 4373 — Unit cost reports: immediate report from program manager to service acquisition executive upon breach of significant cost growth threshold
• § 4374 — Unit cost reports: determinations by service acquisition executive and secretary concerned of breach of significant cost growth threshold or critical cost growth threshold; reports to Congress
• § 4375 — Breach of significant cost growth threshold or critical cost growth threshold: required action
• § 4376 — Breach of critical cost growth threshold: reassessment of program; presumption of program termination
• § 4377 — Breach of critical cost growth threshold: actions if program not terminated
• § 4401 — Requirement for modular open system approach in major defense acquisition programs; definitions
• § 4402 — Requirement to address modular open system approach in program capabilities development and acquisition weapon system design
• § 4403 — Requirements relating to availability of major system interfaces and support for modular open system approach
• § 441 — Establishment
• § 442 — Missions
• § 4421 — Weapon system component or technology prototype projects: display of budget information
• § 4422 — Weapon system component or technology prototype projects: oversight
• § 4423 — Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title VIII, § 811(a)(7) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 948 ]
• § 4424 — Mechanisms to speed deployment of successful weapon system component or technology prototypes
• § 4425 — Definition of weapon system component
• § 443 — Imagery intelligence and geospatial information: support for foreign countries, regional organizations, and security alliances
• § 444 — Support from Central Intelligence Agency
• § 445 — Repealed. Pub. L. 105–107, title V, § 503(c) , Nov. 20, 1997 , 111 Stat. 2262 ]
• § 4501 — Procurement of contract services: management structure
• § 4502 — Procurement of contract services: senior officials responsible for management of acquisition of contract services
• § 4505 — Procurement of services: tracking of purchases
• § 4506 — Procurement of services: data analysis and requirements validation
• § 4507 — Procurement of services: contracts for professional and technical services
• § 4508 — Contractor performance of acquisition functions closely associated with inherently governmental functions
• § 4509 — Contracts for advisory and assistance services: cost comparison studies
• § 451 — Maps, charts, books, and datasets
• § 452 — Pilot charts
• § 453 — Sale of maps, charts, and navigational publications: prices; use of proceeds
• § 454 — Exchange of mapping, charting, and geomatics data with foreign countries, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and academic institutions
• § 455 — Maps, charts, and geomatics data: public availability; exceptions
• § 456 — Civil actions barred
• § 457 — Operational files previously maintained by or concerning activities of National Photographic Interpretation Center: authority to withhold from public disclosure
• § 4571 — Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title VIII, § 811(a)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 948 ]
• § 4576 — Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title VIII, § 811(a)(1) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 948 ]
• § 4601 — Electronic submission and processing of claims for contract payments
• § 4602 — Contracted property and services: prompt payment of vouchers
• § 4603 — Advance notification of contract performance outside the United States
• § 4604 — Changes to certain documents
• § 461 — Management rights
• § 462 — Financial assistance to certain employees in acquisition of critical skills
• § 4651 — Expenditure of appropriations: limitation
• § 4652 — Prohibition on use of funds for documenting economic or employment impact of certain acquisition programs
• § 4653 — Prohibition on use of funds to relieve economic dislocations
• § 4654 — Prohibition against doing business with certain offerors or contractors
• § 4655 — Prohibition of contractors limiting subcontractor sales directly to the United States
• § 4656 — Prohibition on persons convicted of defense-contract related felonies and related criminal penalty on defense contractors
• § 4657 — Prohibition on criminal history inquiries by contractors prior to conditional offer
• § 4658 — Debarment of persons convicted of fraudulent use of “Made in America” labels
• § 4659 — Prohibition on contracting with entities that comply with the secondary Arab boycott of Israel
• § 4660 — Prohibition on collection of political information
• § 4661 — Prohibition on certain procurements from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
• § 4662 — Prohibition on the transfer of certain data on employees of the Department of Defense to third parties
• § 4663 — Prohibition on contracting with covered entities that contract with lobbyists for Chinese military companies
• § 4664 — Requirements relating to long-term concessions agreements with certain retailers
• § 467 — Definitions
• § 4701 — Contractor employees: protection from reprisal for disclosure of certain information
• § 4702 — Incentives and consideration for qualified training programs
• § 4703 — Displaced contractor employees: assistance to obtain certification and employment as teachers or employment as teachers’ aides
• § 4704 — Defense contractors: listing of suitable employment openings with local employment service office
• § 4705 — Notice of contract cancellation or termination relating to remote or isolated installations
• § 4751 — Determinations and decisions
• § 4752 — Remission of liquidated damages
• § 4753 — Supplies: identification of supplier and sources
• § 4754 — Management of purchase cards
• § 480 — Reports to Congress: submission in electronic form
• § 4801 — Definitions
• § 481 — Racial and ethnic issues; gender issues: surveys
• § 4811 — National security strategy for national technology and industrial base
• § 4812 — National Defense Technology and Industrial Base Council
• § 4813 — National defense program for analysis of the technology and industrial base
• § 4814 — National technology and industrial base: biennial report
• § 4815 — Unfunded priorities of the national technology and industrial base: annual report
• § 4816 — National technology and industrial base: periodic defense capability assessments
• § 4817 — Industrial Base Fund