Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§197 Defense Logistics Agency: Fees Charged for Logistics Information

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART I — ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS › CHAPTER 8 — DEFENSE AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FIELD ACTIVITIES › SUBCHAPTER I — COMMON SUPPLY AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES › § 197

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense can charge fees for giving out information from the Federal Logistics Information System through Defense Logistics Information Services. These fees may be billed to other federal executive branch agencies, to states or local governments, or to any person. The Secretary sets the fee amounts to recover the cost of providing the information. Money collected is put into the Defense Logistics Information Services budget for the fiscal year it is collected, is combined with other funds in that budget, and can be used for the same purposes and during the same time period as that budget allows. Defense Logistics Information Services is the part of the Defense Logistics Agency that provides this information.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §197

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Authority.—

The Secretary of Defense may charge fees for providing information in the Federal Logistics Information System through Defense Logistics Information Services to a department or agency of the executive branch outside the Department of Defense, or to a State, a political subdivision of a State, or any person.

(b)Amount.—

The fee or fees prescribed under subsection (a) shall be such amount or amounts as the Secretary of Defense determines appropriate for recovering the costs of providing information as described in such subsection.

(c)Retention of Fees.—

Fees collected under this section shall be credited to the appropriation available for Defense Logistics Information Services for the fiscal year in which collected, shall be merged with other sums in such appropriation, and shall be available for the same purposes and period as the appropriation with which merged.

(d)Defense Logistics Information Services Defined.—

In this section, the term “Defense Logistics Information Services” means the organization within the Defense Logistics Agency that is known as Defense Logistics Information Services.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 197

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110