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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102

§3015 Simplified Acquisition Threshold

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART V — ACQUISITION › Subpart A — General › CHAPTER 201 — DEFINITIONS › SUBCHAPTER II — DEFINITIONS APPLICABLE TO PROCUREMENT GENERALLY › § 3015

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The phrase "simplified acquisition threshold" is the amount shown in section 134 of title 41, but if a contract or purchase is made and carried out outside the United States to support a contingency operation or a humanitarian or peacekeeping operation, the threshold is two times the amount in that section. A "humanitarian or peacekeeping operation" is a military action that helps deliver humanitarian or foreign disaster aid or that supports U.N. peacekeeping under Chapter VI or VII of the U.N. Charter; it does not include routine training, force rotations, or stationing.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §3015

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

In this part:
(1)The term “simplified acquisition threshold” has the meaning provided that term in section 134 of title 41, except that, in the case of any contract to be awarded and performed, or purchase to be made, outside the United States in support of a contingency operation or a humanitarian or peacekeeping operation, the term means an amount equal to two times the amount specified for that term in such section.
(2)The term “humanitarian or peacekeeping operation” means a military operation in support of the provision of humanitarian or foreign disaster assistance or in support of a peacekeeping operation under chapter VI or VII of the Charter of the United Nations. The term does not include routine training, force rotation, or stationing.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification The text of pars. (7) and (8) of section 2302 of this title, which were transferred to this section, redesignated as pars. (1) and (2), respectively, and amended by Pub. L. 116–283, § 1806(b)(6), was based on Pub. L. 103–355, title I, § 1502, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3296; Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title VIII, § 807(a), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2606; Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title VIII, § 803(b), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1832; Pub. L. 111–350, § 5(b)(8)(C), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3843; Pub. L. 113–291, div. A, title X, § 1071(a)(2)(A), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3504.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 3015 was renumbered section 7015 of this title. Another prior section 3015, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 158, § 3014; renumbered § 3015, Oct. 1, 1986, Pub. L. 99–433, title V, § 501(a)(2), 100 Stat. 1034, related to Comptroller and Deputy Comptroller of the Army, powers and duties, and appointment, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 99–433, § 501(a)(5). Another prior section 3015 was renumbered section 3040 of this title and subsequently repealed.

Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283, § 1806(b)(6), redesignated pars. (7) and (8) of section 2302 of this title as pars. (1) and (2), respectively, of this section and inserted introductory provisions.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section and amendment by Pub. L. 116–283 effective Jan. 1, 2022, with additional provisions for delayed implementation and applicability of existing law, see section 1801(d) of Pub. L. 116–283, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2021 Amendment note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 3015

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102