United States · statute · 10 U.S.C. · 2,848 active provisions
The following definitions apply in this title: The term “uniformed services” means— The term “Secretary concerned” means— The term “Defense Agency” means an organizational entity of the Department of Defense— The term “Department of Defense Field Activity” means an organizational entity of the Department of Defense— Th…
Subsection (a) shall not apply to an amendment described in such subsection when— In this section, the term “covered defense law” means—
The Department is composed of the following:
The Secretary of Defense shall have a seal for the Department of Defense. The design of the seal is subject to approval by the President. Judicial notice shall be taken of the seal.
A person may not be appointed as Secretary of Defense— The Secretary shall report annually in writing to the President and the Congress on the expenditures, work, and accomplishments of the Department of Defense during the period covered by the report, together with— The Secretary shall include in his annual report to…
In this section, the term “defense authorization request”, with respect to a fiscal year, means a legislative proposal submitted to Congress for the enactment of the following:
No funds may be appropriated for any fiscal year to or for the use of any armed force or obligated or expended for— Notwithstanding section 37(a) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2777(a)), amounts received by the United States pursuant to subparagraph (A) of section 21(a)(1) of that Act (22 U.S.C. 2761(a)(1))—
Congress shall authorize personnel strength levels for each fiscal year for each of the following: Congress shall annually authorize the maximum number of members of a reserve component permitted to be on active duty or full-time National Guard duty at any given time who are called or ordered to— A member of a reserve…
Not later than April 1 each year, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and furnish to any Member of Congress upon request, a defense manpower profile report. The report shall contain the Secretary’s recommendations for— The justificati…
The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a written report, not later than February 15 of each fiscal year, with respect to the operations and maintenance of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force for the next fiscal year. The Secretary shall include in each such report recommendations for— In…
The Secretary of Defense shall establish a comprehensive readiness reporting system for the Department of Defense. The readiness reporting system shall measure in an objective, accurate, and timely manner the capability of the armed forces to carry out— In establishing and maintaining the readiness reporting system, th…
Each head of an element of the Department specified in paragraphs (1) through (10) of section 111(b) of this title shall establish and maintain materiel readiness metrics to enable assessment of the readiness of members of the armed forces to carry out— Not later than five days after the date on which the Secretary of…
Each quadrennial quality of life review shall be conducted so as— The Secretary shall consider addressing the following matters as part of the quadrennial quality of life review: The Secretary shall submit a report on each quadrennial quality of life review to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Commi…
Not later than the first Monday in February of the year following the fiscal year during which the National Defense Strategy was submitted under section 113(g) of this title, the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the review required by subsection (a). Each such report shall incl…
The Secretary of Defense shall develop a strategy— The strategy required under subsection (a) shall— link the priorities, goals, and investments in subsection (a)(1) with needed critical enablers to specific programs, or broader portfolios, including— In developing the strategy under subsection (a), the Secretary of De…
Each such report shall set forth— for each program in that budget that is a special access program— In the case of a report under paragraph (1) submitted in a year during which the President’s budget for the next fiscal year, because of multiyear budgeting for the Department of Defense, does not include a full budget r…
Each report under paragraph (1) shall set forth the following: For each program in that budget that is a program being managed under alternative compensatory control measures in the Department— the estimated total cost of the program and the estimated cost of the program for— In the case of a report under paragraph (1)…
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The President may prescribe regulations to carry out his functions, powers, and duties under this title.
The Secretary of a military department may have published, annually or at such other times as he may designate, official registers containing the names of, and other pertinent information about, such regular and reserve officers of the armed forces under his jurisdiction as he considers appropriate. The register may al…
To the maximum extent practicable, on or after the date on which each report described in subsection (b) is submitted to Congress, the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, shall ensure that the report is made available to the public by— A report otherwise de…
To carry out subsection (a), Department of Defense personnel may operate equipment of the Department to intercept a vessel or an aircraft detected outside the land area of the United States for the purposes of—
The framework required by paragraph (1) may address duties under the following: For purposes of this section and the policies, guidance, and reporting framework required by subsection (c), covered elements of reform may include the following: At the same time the budget of the President for a fiscal year is submitted t…
When a function, power, or duty or an activity of a department or agency of the Department of Defense is transferred or assigned to another department or agency of that department, balances of appropriations that the Secretary of Defense determines are available and needed to finance or discharge that function, power,…
Funds may not be obligated or expended in an amount in excess of $500,000 under the authority of subsection (a) or (b) until the Secretary of Defense has notified the congressional defense committees of the intent to obligate or expend the funds, and— Not later than December 1 each year, the Secretary of Defense shall…