§9022 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of the Air Force must have the Assistant Secretary for Financial Management run and oversee the Air Force’s money operations. The Assistant Secretary must supervise budget estimates and perform the budget duties that section 135(c) gives to the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). The Assistant Secretary also must approve and oversee new or improved financial systems and any asset management systems, including cash, credit, debt collection, and systems that track property and inventory by quantity, location, and cost. All accounting, internal control, and financial reporting systems must follow the accounting and control standards the Comptroller General sets under 31 U.S.C. 3511 and 3512. Those systems must give complete, reliable, consistent, and timely information; report costs; link accounting and budgeting; and measure performance. The Assistant Secretary must keep a five-year plan for improving financial management, update it every year, and send an annual report to the Secretary of the Air Force about the past year’s activities and the department’s financial management status.

Title 10, §9022

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(a)The Secretary of the Air Force shall provide that the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management shall direct and manage financial management activities and operations of the Department of the Air Force, including ensuring that financial management systems of the Department of the Air Force comply with subsection (b). The authority of the Assistant Secretary for such direction and management shall include the authority to—

(1)supervise and direct the preparation of budget estimates of the Department of the Air Force and otherwise carry out, with respect to the Department of the Air Force, the functions specified for the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) in section 135(c) of this title;

(2)approve and supervise any project to design or enhance a financial management system for the Department of the Air Force; and

(3)approve the establishment and supervise the operation of any asset management system of the Department of the Air Force, including—

(A)systems for cash management, credit management, and debt collection; and

(B)systems for the accounting for the quantity, location, and cost of property and inventory.

(b)(1)Financial management systems of the Department of the Air Force (including accounting systems, internal control systems, and financial reporting systems) shall be established and maintained in conformance with—

(A)the accounting and financial reporting principles, standards, and requirements established by the Comptroller General under section 3511 of title 31; and

(B)the internal control standards established by the Comptroller General under section 3512 of title 31.

(2)Such systems shall provide for—

(A)complete, reliable, consistent, and timely information which is prepared on a uniform basis and which is responsive to the financial information needs of department management;

(B)the development and reporting of cost information;

(C)the integration of accounting and budgeting information; and

(D)the systematic measurement of performance.

(c)The Assistant Secretary shall maintain a five-year plan describing the activities the Department of the Air Force proposes to conduct over the next five fiscal years to improve financial management. Such plan shall be revised annually.

(d)The Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management shall transmit to the Secretary of the Air Force a report each year on the activities of the Assistant Secretary during the preceding year. Each such report shall include a description and analysis of the status of Department of the Air Force financial management.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 9022, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 558, authorized Secretary of the Air Force to employ contract surgeons in an emergency, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98–94, title IX, § 932(c)(1), (f), Sept. 24, 1983, 97 Stat. 650, effective Oct. 1, 1983, with provision for contracts existing on that date. See section 1091 of this title.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 8022 of this title as this section. 1996—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 104–106 substituted “Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)” for “Comptroller of the Department of Defense”. 1994—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 103–337 substituted “135(c)” for “137(c)”.

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Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

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and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

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Section effective July 1, 1989, but with an earlier

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, not before Jan. 21, 1989, if so prescribed by the President in advance by Executive order, see section 702(e)(2) of Pub. L. 100–456, set out as an

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of 1988 Amendment note under section 9016 of this title.

§9022 Financial management

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Title 10, §9022

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