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§6161 Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on certain hardware relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— - General Military Law › Part PART VI— - ELEMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND OTHER MATTERS › Subpart Subpart B— - Atomic Energy Defense › Chapter CHAPTER 603— - PROLIFERATION MATTERS › § 6161

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each fiscal year the Administrator must send Congress's defense committees Selected Acquisition Reports for covered hardware projects. The reports must match the information required for a major defense acquisition program under section 4351 or any successor system, shown for that project. A covered hardware project is defense nuclear nonproliferation R&D focused on hardware, including satellites, that costs over $500,000,000 in five years.

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Title 10, §6161

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(a)(1)At the end of each fiscal year, the Administrator shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on each covered hardware project. The reports shall be known as Selected Acquisition Reports for the covered hardware project concerned.
(2)The information contained in the Selected Acquisition Report for a fiscal year for a covered hardware project shall be the information contained in the Selected Acquisition Report for such fiscal year for a major defense acquisition program under section 4351 or any successor system, expressed in terms of the covered hardware project.
(b)In this section, the term “covered hardware project” means a project carried out under the defense nuclear nonproliferation research and development program that—
(1)is focused on the production and deployment of hardware, including with respect to the development and deployment of satellites or satellite payloads; and
(2)exceeds $500,000,000 in total program cost over the course of five years.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 6161 was renumbered section 8271 of this title. Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2577 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(B), realigned margins. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(A), struck out pars. (1) and (2) headings which read as follows: “In general” and “Matters included”, respectively.

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10 U.S.C. § 6161

Title 10Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73