§6332 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

§6332 Laboratory-directed Research and Development

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— General Military Law › Part VI— ELEMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND OTHER MATTERS › Subpart B— Atomic Energy Defense › Chapter 608— ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS › Subchapter II— RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT › § 6332

Last updated Apr 18, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Energy may let government-owned, contractor-run laboratories use up to 8 percent of the DOE money given for their work for laboratory-directed research and development. The Secretary may also let a plant manager at a covered nuclear weapons production plant or the manager of the Nevada Site Office use up to 4 percent of those funds for plant- or site-directed research and development. Beginning in fiscal year 2006 and thereafter, all DOE laboratories may be eligible for laboratory-directed research and development funding, despite DOE Order 413.2A dated January 8, 2001.

Title 10, §6332

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Of the funds made available by the Department of Energy for activities at government-owned, contractor-operated laboratories funded in this Act 11 See References in Text note below. or subsequent Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts, the Secretary may authorize a specific amount, not to exceed 8 percent of such funds, to be used by such laboratories for laboratory directed research and development: Provided, That the Secretary may also authorize a specific amount not to exceed 4 percent of such funds, to be used by the plant manager of a covered nuclear weapons production plant or the manager of the Nevada Site Office for plant or site directed research and development: Provided further, That notwithstanding Department of Energy order 413.2A, dated January 8, 2001, beginning in fiscal year 2006 and thereafter, all DOE laboratories may be eligible for laboratory directed research and development funding.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, means div. C of Pub. L. 111–8, Mar. 11, 2009, 123 Stat. 601, known as the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2009. Prior to repeal and restatement as this section, this section was section 308 of div. C of Pub. L. 111–8. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 6332 was renumbered section 8332 of this title. Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2791a of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(6).