Federal

Title 10 — Armed Forces

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

• § 614 — Notice of convening of selection boards
• § 6141 — Tritium production program
• § 6142 — Tritium recycling
• § 6143 — Modernization and consolidation of tritium recycling facilities
• § 615 — Information furnished to selection boards
• § 6151 — Authority to conduct program relating to fissile materials
• § 6152 — Completion of material protection, control, and accounting activities in the Russian Federation
• § 6153 — Disposition of weapons-usable plutonium at Savannah River Site
• § 6154 — Disposition of surplus defense plutonium at Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina
• § 6155 — Acceleration of removal or security of fissile materials, radiological materials, and related equipment at vulnerable sites worldwide
• § 6156 — Acceleration of replacement of cesium blood irradiation sources
• § 6157 — International agreements on nuclear weapons data
• § 6158 — International agreements on information on radioactive materials
• § 6159 — Defense nuclear nonproliferation management plan
• § 616 — Recommendations for promotion by selection boards
• § 6160 — Information relating to certain defense nuclear nonproliferation programs
• § 6161 — Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on certain hardware relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation
• § 617 — Reports of selection boards
• § 6171 — Defense environmental cleanup account 1 1 So in original. Probably should be “Defense Environmental Cleanup Account”.
• § 6172 — Classification of defense environmental cleanup as capital asset projects or operations activities
• § 6173 — Requirement to develop future use plans for defense environmental cleanup
• § 6174 — Future-years defense environmental cleanup plan
• § 6175 — Accelerated schedule for defense environmental cleanup activities
• § 6176 — Defense environmental cleanup technology program
• § 6177 — Other programs relating to technology development
• § 6178 — Report on defense environmental cleanup expenditures
• § 6179 — Public participation in planning for defense environmental cleanup
• § 618 — Action on reports of selection boards
• § 6180 — Policy of Department of Energy regarding future defense environmental management matters
• § 6181 — Estimation of costs of meeting defense environmental cleanup milestones required by consent orders
• § 6182 — Public statement of environmental liabilities
• § 619 — Eligibility for consideration for promotion: time-in-grade and other requirements
• § 6191 — Reports in connection with permanent closures of Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities
• § 6192 — Defense site acceleration completion
• § 6193 — Sandia National Laboratories
• § 6194 — Plan for deactivation and decommissioning of nonoperational defense nuclear facilities
• § 619a — Eligibility for consideration for promotion: designation as joint qualified officer required before promotion to general or flag grade; exceptions
• § 620 — Active-duty lists
• § 6201 — Safety measures for waste tanks at Hanford Nuclear Reservation
• § 6202 — Hanford waste tank cleanup program reforms
• § 6203 — River protection project
• § 6204 — Notification regarding air release of radioactive or hazardous material
• § 621 — Competitive categories for promotion
• § 6211 — Accelerated schedule for isolating high-level nuclear waste at the Defense Waste Processing Facility, Savannah River Site
• § 6212 — Multi-year plan for clean-up
• § 6213 — Continuation of processing, treatment, and disposal of legacy nuclear materials
• § 622 — Numbers to be recommended for promotion
• § 6221 — Prohibition on international inspections of Department of Energy facilities unless protection of restricted data is certified
• § 6222 — Restrictions on access to national security laboratories by foreign visitors from sensitive countries
• § 6223 — Background investigations of certain personnel at Department of Energy facilities
• § 6224 — Department of Energy counterintelligence polygraph program
• § 6225 — Notice to congressional committees of certain security and counterintelligence failures within atomic energy defense programs
• § 6226 — Annual 1 report and certification on status of security of atomic energy defense facilities 1 So in original. Probably should be “Biennial”.
• § 6227 — Protection of certain nuclear facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft
• § 6228 — Reporting on penetrations of networks of contractors and subcontractors
• § 623 — Establishment of promotion zones
• § 6231 — Review of certain documents before declassification and release
• § 6232 — Protection against inadvertent release of restricted data and formerly restricted data
• § 6233 — Supplement to plan for declassification of restricted data and formerly restricted data
• § 6234 — Protection of classified information during laboratory-to-laboratory exchanges
• § 6235 — Identification in budget materials of amounts for declassification activities and limitation on expenditures for such activities
• § 624 — Promotions: how made
• § 6241 — Authority for appointment of certain scientific, engineering, and technical personnel
• § 6242 — Whistleblower protection program
• § 6243 — Department of Energy defense nuclear facilities workforce restructuring plan
• § 6244 — Authority to provide certificate of commendation to Department of Energy and contractor employees for exemplary service in stockpile stewardship and security
• § 625 — Authority to vacate promotions to grades of brigadier general and rear admiral (lower half)
• § 6251 — Executive management training in Department of Energy
• § 6252 — Stockpile stewardship recruitment and training program
• § 6253 — Fellowship program for development of skills critical to the nuclear security enterprise
• § 626 — Acceptance of promotions; oath of office
• § 6261 — Worker protection at nuclear weapons facilities
• § 6262 — Safety oversight and enforcement at defense nuclear facilities
• § 6263 — Program to monitor department of energy workers exposed to hazardous and radioactive substances
• § 6264 — Programs for persons who may have been exposed to radiation released from Hanford Nuclear Reservation
• § 6265 — Use of probabilistic risk assessment to ensure nuclear safety of facilities of the Administration and the Office of Environmental Management
• § 6266 — Notification of nuclear criticality and non-nuclear incidents
• § 627 — Failure of selection for promotion
• § 6271 — Definitions
• § 6272 — Reprogramming
• § 6273 — Minor construction projects
• § 6274 — General plant projects
• § 6275 — Limits on construction projects
• § 6276 — Fund transfer authority
• § 6277 — Conceptual and construction design
• § 6278 — Authority for emergency planning, design, and construction activities
• § 6279 — Scope of authority to carry out plant projects
• § 628 — Special selection boards
• § 6280 — Availability of funds
• § 6281 — Transfer of defense environmental cleanup funds
• § 6282 — Transfer of weapons activities funds
• § 6283 — Funds available for all national security programs of the Department of Energy
• § 6284 — Notification of cost overruns for certain Department of Energy projects
• § 6285 — Life-cycle cost estimates of certain atomic energy defense capital assets
• § 6286 — Use of best practices for capital asset projects and nuclear weapon life extension programs
• § 6287 — Matters relating to critical decisions
• § 6288 — Unfunded priorities of the Administration
• § 6289 — Review of adequacy of nuclear weapons budget
• § 628a — Special selection review boards
• § 629 — Removal from a list of officers recommended for promotion
• § 6290 — Improvements to cost estimates informing analyses of alternatives
• § 630 — Discharge of commissioned officers with less than six years of active commissioned service or found not qualified for promotion for first lieutenant or lieutenant (junior grade)
• § 6301 — Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under environmental laws
• § 6302 — Restriction on use of funds to pay penalties under Clean Air Act
• § 631 — Effect of failure of selection for promotion: first lieutenants and lieutenants (junior grade)
• § 6311 — Reports on financial balances for atomic energy defense activities
• § 6312 — Independent acquisition project reviews of capital assets acquisition projects
• § 632 — Effect of failure of selection for promotion: captains and majors of the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force and lieutenants and lieutenant commanders of the Navy
• § 6321 — Costs not allowed under covered contracts
• § 6322 — Prohibition and report 1 on bonuses to contractors operating defense nuclear facilities 1 So in original. Requirement to submit report was repealed by Pub. L. 112–239 without corresponding amendment to section catchline.
• § 6323 — Assessments of emergency preparedness of defense nuclear facilities
• § 6324 — Contractor liability for injury or loss of property arising out of atomic weapons testing programs
• § 6325 — Notice-and-wait requirement applicable to certain third-party financing arrangements
• § 6326 — Publication of contractor performance evaluations leading to award fees
• § 6327 — Enhanced procurement authority to manage supply chain risk
• § 6328 — Cost-benefit analyses for competition of management and operating contracts
• § 633 — Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force lieutenant colonels; regular Navy commanders
• § 6331 — Laboratory-directed research and development programs
• § 6332 — Laboratory-directed research and development
• § 6333 — Funding for laboratory directed research and development
• § 6334 — Charges to individual program, project, or activity
• § 6335 — Limitations on use of funds for laboratory directed research and development purposes
• § 6336 — Report on use of funds for certain research and development purposes
• § 6337 — Critical technology partnerships and cooperative research and development centers
• § 6338 — University-based research collaboration program
• § 6339 — Limitation on establishing an enduring bioassurance program within the administration
• § 634 — Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force colonels; regular Navy captains
• § 6340 — Appropriate scoping of artificial intelligence research within the administration
• § 635 — Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force brigadier generals; regular Navy rear admirals (lower half)
• § 6351 — Transfers of real property at certain Department of Energy facilities
• § 6352 — Engineering and manufacturing research, development, and demonstration by managers of certain nuclear weapons production facilities
• § 6353 — Activities at covered nuclear weapons facilities
• § 6354 — Pilot program relating to use of proceeds of disposal or utilization of certain department of energy assets
• § 6355 — Department of Energy energy parks program
• § 6356 — Authority to use passenger carriers for contractor commuting
• § 636 — Retirement for years of service: regular and Space Force officers in grades above brigadier general; regular Navy officers in grades above rear admiral (lower half)
• § 6361 — Payment of costs of operation and maintenance of infrastructure at Nevada National Security Site
• § 6362 — University-based defense nuclear policy collaboration program
• § 637 — Selection of regular officers for continuation on active duty
• § 637a — Continuation on active duty: officers in certain military specialties and career tracks
• § 638 — Selective early retirement
• § 638a — Modification to rules for continuation on active duty; enhanced authority for selective early retirement and early discharges
• § 638b — Voluntary retirement incentive
• § 639 — Continuation on active duty to complete disciplinary action
• § 640 — Deferment of retirement or separation for medical reasons
• § 641 — Applicability of chapter
• § 642 — Entitlement of officers discharged or retired under this chapter to separation pay or retired pay
• § 643 — Chaplains: discharge or retirement upon loss of professional qualifications
• § 644 — Repealed. Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1622(b) , Oct. 5, 1994 , 108 Stat. 2961 ]
• § 645 — Definitions
• § 646 — Consideration of performance as a member of the Joint Staff
• § 647 — Force shaping authority
• § 649a — Officers in designated competitive categories
• § 649b — Selection for promotion
• § 649c — Eligibility for consideration for promotion
• § 649d — Opportunities for consideration for promotion
• § 649e — Promotions
• § 649f — Failure of selection for promotion
• § 649g — Retirement: retirement for years of service; selective early retirement
• § 649h — Continuation on active duty
• § 649i — Continuation on active duty: officers in certain military specialties and career tracks
• § 649j — Other administrative authorities
• § 649k — Regulations
• § 651 — Members: required service
• § 652 — Notice to Congress of proposed changes in units, assignments, etc. to which female members may be assigned
• § 653 — Minimum service requirement for certain flight crew positions
• § 654 — Minimum service requirement for certain cyberspace occupational specialties
• § 655 — Designation of persons having interest in status of a missing member
• § 656 — Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title IX, § 901(c) , Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1007 ]
• § 657 — Prohibition on service in the armed forces by individuals convicted of certain sexual offenses
• § 658 — Medical accession standards for members of the armed forces
• § 661 — Management policies for joint qualified officers
• § 662 — Promotion policy objectives for joint officers
• § 663 — Joint duty assignments after completion of joint professional military education
• § 664 — Length of joint duty assignments
• § 665 — Procedures for monitoring careers of joint qualified officers
• § 666 — Reserve officers not on the active-duty list
• § 667 — Repealed. Pub. L. 113–291, div. A, title V, § 505(a)(1) , Dec. 19, 2014 , 128 Stat. 3356 ]
• § 668 — Definitions
• § 671 — Members not to be assigned outside United States before completing training
• § 671a — Members: service extension during war
• § 671b — Members: service extension when Congress is not in session
• § 672 — Reference to chapter 1209
• § 673 — Consideration of application for permanent change of station or unit transfer for members on active duty who are the victim of a sexual assault or related offense
• § 673a — Renumbered § 12303]
• § 673b — Renumbered § 12304]
• § 673c — Renumbered § 12305]
• § 674 — Temporary administrative reassignment or removal of a member on active duty accused of committing a sexual assault or related offense
• § 675 — Renumbered § 12307]
• § 676 — Renumbered § 12308]
• § 677 — Renumbered § 12309]
• § 678 — Renumbered § 12310]
• § 679 — Renumbered § 12311]
• § 680 — Renumbered § 12312]
• § 681 — Renumbered § 12313]
• § 682 — Renumbered § 12314]
• § 683 — Renumbered § 12315]
• § 684 — Renumbered § 12316]
• § 685 — Renumbered § 12317]
• § 686 — Renumbered § 12318]