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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102

§4373 Unit Cost Reports: Immediate Report From Program Manager to Service Acquisition Executive Upon Breach of Significant Cost Growth Threshold

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART V — ACQUISITION › Subpart F — Major Systems, Major Defense Acquisition Programs, and Weapon Systems Development › CHAPTER 325 — COST GROWTH—UNIT COST REPORTS (NUNN-MCCURDY) › § 4373

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

If a program manager finds during a quarter that there is good reason to believe the program’s unit cost or the procurement unit cost for the program or a major subprogram has risen by at least the significant cost growth threshold, and no report showing that increase has already been sent, the manager must immediately send a unit cost report to the service acquisition executive chosen by the Secretary. The report must include the same required information and use data as of the report date.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §4373

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

If the program manager of a major defense acquisition program for which a unit cost report has previously been submitted under section 4372 of this title determines at any time during a quarter that there is reasonable cause to believe that the program acquisition unit cost for the program (or for a designated major subprogram under the program) or the procurement unit cost for the program (or for such a subprogram), as applicable, has increased by a percentage equal to or greater than the significant cost growth threshold; and if a unit cost report indicating an increase of such percentage or more has not previously been submitted to the service acquisition executive designated by the Secretary concerned, then the program manager shall immediately submit to such service acquisition executive a unit cost report containing the information, determined as of the date of the report, required under section 4372 of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification The text of subsec. (c) of section 2433 of this title, which was transferred to this section and amended by Pub. L. 116–283, § 1850(f), was based on Pub. L. 97–252, title XI, § 1107(a)(1), Sept. 8, 1982, 96 Stat. 741, § 139b; Pub. L. 98–525, title XII, § 1242(b)(3), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2608; renumbered § 2433, Pub. L. 99–433, title I, § 101(a)(5), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 995; Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title XIII, § 1314(a)(1), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1175; Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title VIII, § 811(a)(3), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1490; Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title XIV, § 1484(k)(10), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1719; Pub. L. 102–484, div. A, title VIII, § 817(d)(3), Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2457; Pub. L. 103–355, title III, §§ 3002(a)(2)(A), 3003(a)(2)(A), (c), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3328, 3329; Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title VIII, § 833(a), (b), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1842, 1843; Pub. L. 109–163, div. A, title VIII, § 802(b)(1), Jan. 6, 2006, 119 Stat. 3368; Pub. L. 110–417, [div. A], title VIII, § 811(c)(3), Oct. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 4522.

Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283, § 1850(f), transferred subsec. (c) of section 2433 of this title to this section, struck out subsec. designation, and substituted “section 4372 of this title” for “subsection (b)” in two places.

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. § 4373

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102