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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§3783 Technical Data: Time for Contractors to Submit Justifications

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART V — ACQUISITION › Subpart D — General Contracting Provisions › CHAPTER 275 — PROPRIETARY CONTRACTOR DATA AND RIGHTS IN TECHNICAL DATA › SUBCHAPTER II — VALIDATION OF PROPRIETARY DATA RESTRICTIONS › § 3783

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Contracting officers must give extra time when a contractor or subcontractor claiming a restriction on technical data sends a written request explaining why more time is needed to justify that restriction. If a party gets challenge notices from several contracting officers and tells each officer about the others, the officer who started the first challenge must talk with the party and the other officers and make a schedule that gives the party a fair chance to answer each challenge.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §3783

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Additional Time to Submit Justifications.—
If a contractor or subcontractor asserting a use or release restriction submits to the contracting officer a written request, showing the need for additional time to comply with the requirement to justify the current validity of the asserted restriction, additional time to adequately permit the submission of such justification shall be provided by the contracting officer as appropriate.
(b)Multiple Challenges; Schedule of Responses.—
If a party asserting a restriction receives notices of challenges to restrictions on technical data from more than one contracting officer, and notifies each contracting officer of the existence of more than one challenge, the contracting officer initiating the first in time challenge, after consultation with the party asserting the restriction and the other contracting officers, shall formulate a schedule of responses to each of the challenges that will afford the party asserting the restriction with an equitable opportunity to respond to each such challenge.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification The text of subsec. (e) of section 2321 of this title, which was transferred to this section and amended by Pub. L. 116–283, § 1833(j), was based on Pub. L. 98–525, title XII, § 1216(a), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2597; Pub. L. 100–26, § 7(a)(5)(A)(i), (B), Apr. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 276, 277.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 3783, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 218; Pub. L. 86–616, § 2(a), July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 387, provided for boards of review, composed of three or more officers, to be convened by Secretary of the Army, at such places as he prescribes, to review records of cases of officers recommended by boards of inquiry for removal from active list of Regular Army, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96–513, title II, § 213, title VII, § 701, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2885, 2955, effective Sept. 15, 1981.

Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283, § 1833(j), transferred subsec. (e) of section 2321 of this title to this section, struck out subsec. (e) designation and heading “Time for Contractors to Submit Justifications” at beginning, and designated first and second sentences of existing provisions as subsecs. (a) and (b), respectively, and inserted headings.

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. § 3783

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110