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Title 10 - Armed Forces
Subtitle A - General Military Law
Part I - Organization and General Military Powers
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 3, Title 10 - ARMED FORCES |
| Category | Bills and Statutes |
| Collection | United States Code |
| SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
| Contained Within | Title 10 - ARMED FORCES Subtitle A - General Military Law PART I - ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS |
| Contains | sections 101 to 499b |
| Date | 2021 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 3, 2022 |
| Positive Law | Yes |
| Disposition | standard |
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
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Chapter 2 - Department of Defense
(Section 111 - 120)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 111 - Executive department
- Sec. 112 - Department of Defense: seal
- Sec. 113 - Secretary of Defense
- Sec. 113a - Transmission of annual defense authorization request
- Sec. 114 - Annual authorization of appropriations
- Sec. 114a - Renumbered §221
- Sec. 115 - Personnel strengths: requirement for annual authorization
- Sec. 115a - Annual defense manpower profile report and related reports
- Sec. 115b - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title XI, §1102(a), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2444
- Sec. 116 - Annual operations and maintenance report
- Sec. 117 - Readiness reporting system
- Sec. 118 - Materiel readiness metrics and objectives for major weapon systems
- Sec. 118a - Quadrennial quality of life review
- Sec. 118b - National Defense Sustainment and Logistics Review
- Sec. 118c - National Defense Science and Technology Strategy
- Sec. 119 - Special access programs: congressional oversight
- Sec. 119a - Programs managed under alternative compensatory control measures: congressional oversight
- Sec. 120 - Department of Defense executive aircraft controlled by Secretaries of military departments
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Chapter 3 - General Powers and Functions
(Section 121 - 130k)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 121 - Regulations
- Sec. 122 - Official registers
- Sec. 122a - Public availability of Department of Defense reports required by law
- Sec. 123 - Authority to suspend officer personnel laws during war or national emergency
- Sec. 123a - Suspension of end-strength and other strength limitations in time of war or national emergency
- Sec. 123b - Forces stationed abroad: limitation on number
- Sec. 124 - Detection and monitoring of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs: Department of Defense to be lead agency
- Sec. 125 - Functions, powers, and duties: transfer, reassignment, consolidation, or abolition
- Sec. 125a - Reform: improvement of efficacy and efficiency
- Sec. 126 - Transfer of funds and employees
- Sec. 127 - Emergency and extraordinary expenses
- Sec. 127a - Operations for which funds are not provided in advance: funding mechanisms
- Sec. 127b - Department of Defense rewards program
- Sec. 127c - Purchase of weapons overseas: force protection
- Sec. 127d - Renumbered §331
- Sec. 127e - Support of special operations to combat terrorism
- Sec. 127f - Expenditure of funds for clandestine activities that support operational preparation of the environment
- Sec. 128 - Control and physical protection of special nuclear material: limitation on dissemination of unclassified information
- Sec. 129 - Civilian personnel management
- Sec. 129a - General policy for total force management
- Sec. 129b - Authority to procure personal services
- Sec. 129c - Medical personnel: limitations on reductions
- Sec. 129d - Disclosure to litigation support contractors
- Sec. 130 - Authority to withhold from public disclosure certain technical data
- Sec. 130a - Repealed. Pub. L. 110-181, div. A, title IX, §901(a)(1), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 272
- Sec. 130b - Personnel in overseas, sensitive, or routinely deployable units: nondisclosure of personally identifying information
- Sec. 130c - Nondisclosure of information: certain sensitive information of foreign governments and international organizations
- Sec. 130d - Treatment under Freedom of Information Act of certain confidential information shared with State and local personnel
- Sec. 130e - Treatment under Freedom of Information Act of certain critical infrastructure security information
- Sec. 130f - Notification requirements for sensitive military operations
- Sec. 130g - Renumbered §394
- Sec. 130h - Prohibitions relating to missile defense information and systems
- Sec. 130i - Protection of certain facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft
- Secs. 130j, 130k - Renumbered §§395, 396
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Chapter 4 - Office of the Secretary of Defense
(Section 131 - 147)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 131 - Office of the Secretary of Defense
- Sec. 132 - Deputy Secretary of Defense
- Sec. 132a - Repealed. Pub. L. 116-283, div. A, title IX, §901(a)(1), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3794
- Sec. 133 - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title IX, §901(a)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2339
- Sec. 133a - Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
- Sec. 133b - Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment
- Sec. 134 - Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
- Sec. 134a - Repealed. Pub. L. 111-383, div. A, title IX, §901(b)(1), Jan. 7, 2011, 124 Stat. 4317
- Sec. 134b - Repealed. Pub. L. 111-84, div. A, title IX, §905(a)(1), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2425
- Sec. 135 - Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
- Sec. 136 - Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness
- Sec. 136a - Repealed. Pub. L. 111-383, div. A, title IX, §901(b)(1), Jan. 7, 2011, 124 Stat. 4317
- Sec. 137 - Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security
- Sec. 137a - Deputy Under Secretaries of Defense
- Sec. 138 - Assistant Secretaries of Defense
- Secs. 138a, 138b - Repealed. Pub. L. 113-291, div. A, title IX, §901(h)(4), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3467
- Sec. 138c - Repealed. Pub. L. 113-291, div. A, title IX, §901(g)(2), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3466
- Sec. 138d - Repealed. Pub. L. 113-291, div. A, title IX, §901(h)(4), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3467
- Sec. 139 - Director of Operational Test and Evaluation
- Sec. 139a - Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation
- Sec. 139b - Secretariat for Special Operations; Special Operations Policy and Oversight Council
- Sec. 139c - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title IX, §901(e)(2), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2342
- Secs. 139d, 139e - Renumbered §§139b, 139c
- Sec. 140 - General Counsel
- Sec. 140a - Renumbered §422
- Sec. 140b - Renumbered §423
- Sec. 140c - Renumbered §130
- Sec. 141 - Inspector General
- Sec. 142 - Chief Information Officer
- Sec. 143 - Office of the Secretary of Defense personnel: limitation
- Sec. 144 - Director of Small Business Programs
- Sec. 145 - Principal Advisor on Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Sec. 146 - Renumbered §198
- Sec. 147 - Chief Diversity Officer
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Chapter 5 - Joint Chiefs of Staff
(Section 151 - 156)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 151 - Joint Chiefs of Staff: composition; functions
- Sec. 152 - Chairman: appointment; grade and rank
- Sec. 153 - Chairman: functions
- Sec. 154 - Vice Chairman
- Sec. 155 - Joint Staff
- Sec. 155a - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title V, §502(a)(1), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2102
- Sec. 156 - Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Chapter 6 - Combatant Commands
(Section 161 - 169)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 161 - Combatant commands: establishment
- Sec. 162 - Combatant commands: assigned forces; chain of command
- Sec. 163 - Role of Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Sec. 164 - Commanders of combatant commands: assignment; powers and duties
- Sec. 165 - Combatant commands: administration and support
- Sec. 166 - Combatant commands: budget proposals
- Sec. 166a - Combatant commands: funding through the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Sec. 166b - Combatant commands: funding for combating terrorism readiness initiatives
- Sec. 167 - Unified combatant command for special operations forces
- Sec. 167a - Repealed. Pub. L. 115-232, div. A, title VIII, §812(a)(1)(A), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1846
- Sec. 167b - Unified combatant command for cyber operations
- Sec. 168 - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title XII, §1253(a)(1)(A), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2532
- Sec. 169 - Repealed. Pub. L. 116-92, div. A, title XVI, §1601(a), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1722
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Chapter 7 - Boards, Councils, and Committees
(Section 171 - 190)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 171 - Armed Forces Policy Council
- Sec. 171a - Council on Oversight of the National Leadership Command, Control, and Communications System
- Sec. 172 - Explosive safety board
- Sec. 173 - Advisory personnel
- Sec. 174 - Advisory personnel: research and development
- Sec. 175 - Reserve Forces Policy Board
- Sec. 176 - Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
- Sec. 177 - American Registry of Pathology
- Sec. 178 - The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
- Sec. 179 - Nuclear Weapons Council
- Sec. 180 - Service academy athletic programs: review board
- Sec. 181 - Joint Requirements Oversight Council
- Sec. 182 - Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance
- Sec. 183 - Department of Defense Board of Actuaries
- Sec. 183a - Military Aviation and Installation Assurance Clearinghouse for review of mission obstructions
- Sec. 184 - Joint Safety Council
- Sec. 185 - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-328, div. A, title IX, §904(a), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2345
- Sec. 186 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113-291, div. A, title IX, §901(c), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3463
- Sec. 187 - Strategic Materials Protection Board
- Sec. 188 - Interagency Council on the Strategic Capability of the National Laboratories
- Sec. 189 - Communications Security Review and Advisory Board
- Sec. 190 - Repealed. Pub. L. 116-92, div. A, title VIII, §810(a), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1487
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Chapter 8 - Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities
(Section 191 - 205)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - Common Supply and Service Activities (Section 191 - 198)
- Subchapter II - Miscellaneous Defense Agency Matters (Section 201 - 205)
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Chapter 9 - Defense Budget Matters
(Section 221 - 239c)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 221 - Future-years defense program: submission to Congress; consistency in budgeting
- Sec. 222 - Future-years mission budget
- Sec. 222a - Unfunded priorities of the armed forces and combatant commands: annual report
- Sec. 222b - Unfunded priorities of the Missile Defense Agency: annual report
- Sec. 222c - Armed forces: Out-Year Unconstrained Total Munitions Requirements; Out-Year inventory numbers
- Sec. 223 - Ballistic missile defense programs: program elements
- Sec. 223a - Ballistic missile defense programs: procurement
- Sec. 224 - Ballistic missile defense programs: display of amounts for research, development, test, and evaluation
- Sec. 225 - Acquisition accountability reports on the ballistic missile defense system
- Sec. 226 - Special operations forces: display of service-common and other support and enabling capabilities
- Sec. 227 - Repealed. Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title X, §1061(f)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 443
- Sec. 228 - Repealed. Pub. L. 114-92, div. A, title X, §1073(a)(1), Nov. 25, 2015, 129 Stat. 995
- Sec. 229 - Programs for combating terrorism: display of budget information
- Sec. 230 - Repealed. Pub. L. 107-314, div. A, title X, §1041(a)(2)(A), Dec. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 2645
- Sec. 231 - Budgeting for construction of naval vessels: annual plan and certification
- Sec. 231a - Budgeting for life-cycle costs of aircraft for the Army, Navy, and Air Force: annual plan and certification
- Sec. 232 - Repealed. Pub. L. 112-239, div. A, title X, §1081(1)(A), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 1960
- Sec. 233 - Operation and maintenance budget presentation
- Sec. 234 - POW/MIA activities: display of budget information
- Sec. 235 - Repealed. Pub. L. 117-81, div. A, title VIII, §815(b)(1), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1825
- Sec. 236 - Personal protection equipment procurement: display of budget information
- Sec. 237 - Embedded mental health providers of the reserve components: display of budget information
- Sec. 238 - Cyber mission forces: program elements
- Sec. 239 - National security space programs: major force program and budget assessment
- Sec. 239a - Missile defense and defeat programs: major force program and budget assessment
- Sec. 239b - Certain intelligence-related programs: budget justification materials
- Sec. 239c - Certain multiyear contracts for acquisition of property: budget justification materials
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Chapter 9A - Audit
(Section 240a - 254b)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 240a - Audit of Department of Defense financial statements
- Sec. 240b - Financial Improvement and Audit Remediation Plan
- Sec. 240c - Audit: consolidated corrective action plan; centralized reporting system
- Sec. 240d - Audits: audit of financial statements of Department of Defense components by independent external auditors
- Sec. 240e - Audits: use of commercial data integration and analysis products in preparing audits
- Sec. 240f - Audits: selection of service providers for audit services
- Sec. 240g - Defense Business Audit Remediation Plan
- Sec. 240h - Annual report on auditable financial statements
- Sec. 240i - Annual report on unfunded priorities
- Secs. 251 to 254b - Renumbered §§240a to 240f
- + Chapter 11 - Reserve Components (Section 241 - 241)
- + Chapter 12 - The Militia (Section 246 - 247)
- + Chapter 13 - Insurrection (Section 251 - 255)
- + Chapter 14 - Arming of American Vessels (Section 261 - 261)
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Chapter 15 - Military Support for Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies
(Section 271 - 284)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 271 - Use of information collected during military operations
- Sec. 272 - Use of military equipment and facilities
- Sec. 273 - Training and advising civilian law enforcement officials
- Sec. 274 - Maintenance and operation of equipment
- Sec. 275 - Restriction on direct participation by military personnel
- Sec. 276 - Support not to affect adversely military preparedness
- Sec. 277 - Reimbursement
- Sec. 278 - Nonpreemption of other law
- Sec. 279 - Assignment of Coast Guard personnel to naval vessels for law enforcement purposes
- Sec. 280 - Enhancement of cooperation with civilian law enforcement officials
- Sec. 281 - Procurement of equipment by State and local governments through the Department of Defense: equipment for counter-drug, homeland security, and emergency response activities
- Sec. 282 - Emergency situations involving weapons of mass destruction
- Sec. 283 - Situations involving bombings of places of public use, Government facilities, public transportation systems, and infrastructure facilities
- Sec. 284 - Support for counterdrug activities and activities to counter transnational organized crime
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Chapter 16 - Security Cooperation
(Section 301 - 386)
- Table of Contents
- Subchapter I - General Matters (Section 301 - 301)
- Subchapter II - Military-to-Military Engagements (Section 311 - 313)
- Subchapter III - Training With Foreign Forces (Section 321 - 322)
- Subchapter IV - Support for Operations and Capacity Building (Section 331 - 336)
- Subchapter V - Educational and Training Activities (Section 341 - 352)
- Subchapter VI - Limitations on Use of Department of Defense Funds (Section 361 - 380)
- Subchapter VII - Administrative and Miscellaneous Matters (Section 381 - 386)
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Chapter 19 - Cyber and Information Operations Matters
(Section 391 - 397)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 391 - Reporting on cyber incidents with respect to networks and information systems of operationally critical contractors and certain other contractors
- Sec. 392 - Executive agents for cyber test and training ranges
- Sec. 393 - Reporting on penetrations of networks and information systems of certain contractors
- Sec. 394 - Authorities concerning military cyber operations
- Sec. 395 - Notification requirements for sensitive military cyber operations
- Sec. 396 - Notification requirements for cyber weapons
- Sec. 397 - Principal Information Operations Advisor
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Chapter 20 - Humanitarian and Other Assistance
(Section 401 - 410)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 401 - Humanitarian and civic assistance provided in conjunction with military operations
- Sec. 402 - Transportation of humanitarian relief supplies to foreign countries
- Sec. 403 - Repealed. Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title X, §1061(g)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 443
- Sec. 404 - Foreign disaster assistance
- Sec. 405 - Use of Department of Defense funds for United States share of costs of United Nations peacekeeping activities: limitation
- Sec. 406 - Renumbered §401(f)
- Sec. 407 - Humanitarian demining assistance and stockpiled conventional munitions assistance: authority; limitations
- Sec. 408 - Equipment and training of foreign personnel to assist in Department of Defense accounting for missing United States Government personnel
- Sec. 409 - Center for Complex Operations
- Sec. 410 - Repealed. Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title V, §571(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 353
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Chapter 21 - Department of Defense Intelligence Matters
(Section 421 - 437)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - General Matters (Section 421 - 430b)
- Subchapter II - Intelligence Commercial Activities (Section 431 - 437)
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Chapter 22 - National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
(Section 441 - 467)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Subchapter I - Missions and Authority (Section 441 - 445)
- Subchapter II - Maps, Charts, and Geomatics Products (Section 451 - 457)
- Subchapter III - Personnel Management (Section 461 - 462)
- Subchapter IV - Definitions (Section 467 - 467)
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Chapter 23 - Miscellaneous Studies and Reports
(Section 480 - 490a)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 480 - Reports to Congress: submission in electronic form
- Sec. 481 - Racial and ethnic issues; gender issues: surveys
- Sec. 481a - Workplace and gender relations issues: surveys of Department of Defense civilian employees
- Sec. 482 - Readiness reports
- Sec. 483 - Notifications related to basing decision-making process
- Sec. 484 - Quarterly cyber operations briefings
- Sec. 485 - Monthly counterterrorism operations briefings
- Sec. 486 - Annual reports on racial and ethnic demographics in the military justice system
- Sec. 487 - Repealed. Pub. L. 112-81, div. A, title X, §1061(9)(A), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1583
- Sec. 488 - Management and review of electromagnetic spectrum
- Sec. 489 - Repealed. Pub. L. 113-291, div. A, title III, §331(a), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3344
- Sec. 490 - Repealed. Pub. L. 112-81, div. A, title X, §1061(10)(A), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1583
- Sec. 490a - Renumbered §492
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Chapter 24 - Nuclear Posture
(Section 491 - 499b)
- Table of Contents
- Front Matter
- Sec. 491 - Nuclear weapons employment strategy of the United States: reports on modification of strategy
- Sec. 492 - Biennial assessment and report on the delivery platforms for nuclear weapons and the nuclear command and control system
- Sec. 492a - Annual report on the plan for the nuclear weapons stockpile, nuclear weapons complex, nuclear weapons delivery systems, and nuclear weapons command and control system
- Sec. 493 - Reports to Congress on the modification of the force structure for the strategic nuclear weapons delivery systems of the United States
- Sec. 494 - Nuclear force reductions
- Sec. 495 - Strategic delivery systems
- Sec. 496 - Consideration of expansion of nuclear forces of other countries
- Sec. 497 - Notification required for reduction, consolidation, or withdrawal of nuclear forces based in Europe
- Sec. 497a - Notification required for reduction or consolidation of dual-capable aircraft based in Europe
- Sec. 498 - Unilateral change in nuclear weapons stockpile of the United States
- Sec. 499 - Annual assessment of cyber resiliency of nuclear command and control system
- Sec. 499a - Collection, storage, and sharing of data relating to nuclear security enterprise and nuclear forces
- Sec. 499b - Participation in United States Strategic Command strategic deterrence exercises
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