10 U.S.C. § 6161: Annual Selected Acquisition…

Summary

Requires the Administrator to send the congressional defense committees an annual report at the end of each fiscal year for every covered hardware project. Each report must contain the same kinds of information that a Selected Acquisition Report for a major defense acquisition program must include under section 4351, but written about the covered hardware project. Covered hardware project: a defense nuclear nonproliferation research and development project that focuses on producing and deploying hardware (for example, satellites or satellite payloads) and that costs more than $500,000,000 in total over five years.

Title 10, §6161

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(a)Annual Selected Acquisition Reports.—

(1)At the end of each fiscal year, the Administrator shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on each covered hardware project. The reports shall be known as Selected Acquisition Reports for the covered hardware project concerned.

(2)The information contained in the Selected Acquisition Report for a fiscal year for a covered hardware project shall be the information contained in the Selected Acquisition Report for such fiscal year for a major defense acquisition program under section 4351 or any successor system, expressed in terms of the covered hardware project.

(b)Covered Hardware Project Defined.—

In this section, the term “covered hardware project” means a project carried out under the defense nuclear nonproliferation research and development program that—

(1)is focused on the production and deployment of hardware, including with respect to the development and deployment of satellites or satellite payloads; and

(2)exceeds $500,000,000 in total program cost over the course of five years.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 6161 was renumbered section 8271 of this title. Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2577 of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(B), realigned margins. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(A), struck out pars. (1) and (2) headings which read as follows: “In general” and “Matters included”, respectively.

§6161 Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on Certain Hardware Relating to Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation