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10 U.S.C. § 2279

Foreign commercial satellite services and foreign launches

United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective

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10 U.S.C. § 2279, Foreign commercial satellite services and foreign launches, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/433869
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Except as provided in subsection (c), the Secretary of Defense may not enter into a contract for satellite services with a foreign entity if the Secretary reasonably believes that— In addition to the prohibition in subsection (a), and except as provided in paragraph (2) and in subsection (c), the Secretary may not enter into a contract for satellite services with any entity if the Secretary reasonably believes that such satellite services will be provided using satellites that will be— The limitation in paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to— The prohibitions in subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to a contract if— not later than 7 days before entering into such contract, the Secretary, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, submits to the congressional defense committees a national security assessment for such contract that includes the following: In this section: The term “covered foreign country” means any of the following:

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