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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§1582 Assistive Technology, Assistive Technology Devices, and Assistive Technology Services

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 81 — CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES › § 1582

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense can give assistive technology, devices, and services to help people with disabilities. That help can go to DoD employees with disabilities, to DoD parts that must make their programs or places usable by people with disabilities, and to other federal agencies if their head asks for it. Definitions (one line each): assistive technology — tools or systems that help people with disabilities; assistive technology device — the actual equipment; assistive technology service — help to use the equipment; disability — as defined in section 3 of the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 3002).

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §1582

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Authority.—
The Secretary of Defense may provide assistive technology, assistive technology devices, and assistive technology services to the following:
(1)Department of Defense employees with disabilities.
(2)Organizations within the Department that have requirements to make programs or facilities accessible to, and usable by, persons with disabilities.
(3)Any other department or agency of the Federal Government, upon the request of the head of that department or agency, for its employees with disabilities or for satisfying a requirement to make its programs or facilities accessible to, and usable by, persons with disabilities.
(b)Definitions.—
In this section, the terms “assistive technology”, “assistive technology device”, “assistive technology service”, and “disability” have the meanings given those terms in section 3 of the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 3002).

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 1582, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 118; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85–861, § 1(35), 72 Stat. 1456; Sept. 23, 1959, Pub. L. 86–377, § 3, 73 Stat. 701, directed Secretary of Defense to report annually to Congress on civilian research and development personnel employed by Department of Defense under former section 1581 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–295, § 1(19)(A), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1290.

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10 U.S.C. § 1582

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110