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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§9512 Civil Reserve Air Fleet Contracts: Payment Rate

Title 10 › Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force › PART IV — SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT › CHAPTER 961 — CIVIL RESERVE AIR FLEET › § 9512

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must set a fair and reasonable payment rate for airlift services the Department of Defense buys from carriers in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet. The Secretary must make rules for those rates but can leave out contracts that were competitively awarded. The Secretary may use how much aircraft each carrier commits when deciding how much business they get. Contracts paid this way are not covered by chapter 271 of this title or by section 1502(a) and (b) of title 41.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §9512

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(a)Authority.—
The Secretary shall determine a fair and reasonable rate of payment for airlift services provided to the Department of Defense by air carriers who are participants in the Civil Reserve Air Fleet program.
(b)Regulations.—
The Secretary shall prescribe regulations for purposes of subsection (a). The Secretary may exclude from the applicability of those regulations any airlift services contract made through the use of competitive procedures.
(c)Commitment of Aircraft as a Business Factor.— (d) Inapplicable Provisions of Law.—
The Secretary may, in determining the quantity of business to be received under an airlift services contract for which the rate of payment is determined in accordance with subsection (a), use as a factor the relative amount of airlift capability committed by each air carrier to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 9512 was renumbered section 9513 of this title.

Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 117–81 renumbered section 9511a of this title as this section and substituted “Secretary” for “Secretary of Defense” in subsecs. (a) and (b). Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “chapter 271” for “section 2306a”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2021 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 116–283 effective Jan. 1, 2022, with additional provisions for delayed implementation and applicability of existing law, see section 1801(d)(1) of Pub. L. 116–283, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title. Initial

Regulations

Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title III, § 366(c), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1381, provided that: “

Regulations

shall be prescribed under section 9511a(b) of title 10, United States Code [now 10 U.S.C. 9512(b)], as added by subsection (a), not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 31, 2011].”

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 9512

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110