10 U.S.C. § 4172
Major systems and munitions programs: survivability testing and lethality testing required before full-scale production
United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective
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The Secretary of Defense shall provide that—
The Secretary of Defense shall provide that a covered product improvement program may not proceed beyond low-rate initial production until—
The Secretary of Defense may waive the application of the survivability and lethality tests of this section to a covered system, munitions program, missile program, or covered product improvement program if the Secretary determines that live-fire testing of such system or program would be unreasonably expensive and impractical and submits a certification of that determination to Congress—
in the case of a system or program initiated at—
If a decision is made within the Department of Defense to proceed to operational use of a system, or to make procurement funds available for a system, before Milestone C approval of that system, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees, as soon as practicable after such decision, the following:
In this section:
The term “covered system” means—
a vehicle, weapon platform, or conventional weapon system that—
The term “major munitions program” means—
The term “covered product improvement program” means a program under which—
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone.
- A joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1987, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Defense Technical Corrections Act of 1987House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991House: no recorded tallySenate: 91–8
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994
- Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994House: 425–0Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2002
- Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003House: 359–58Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004
- Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009
- William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022House: 363–70Senate: no recorded tally