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§2577 Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on Certain Hardware Relating to Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

Title 50 › Chapter 42— ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE PROVISIONS › Subchapter III— PROLIFERATION MATTERS › § 2577

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

At the end of each fiscal year, the Administrator must send an annual report to the defense committees in Congress about each covered hardware project. The report must include the same kinds of details used for major defense acquisition programs under section 4351 of title 10, but presented for that covered hardware project. A covered hardware project is a defense nuclear nonproliferation R&D project that makes or fields hardware (including satellites or satellite payloads) and will cost more than $500,000,000 over five years.

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Title 50, §2577

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(a)(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 of title 10 or any successor system, expressed in terms of the covered hardware project.
(b)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.

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2022—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 117–263 inserted “or any successor system,” before “expressed in terms”. 2021—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 117–81 substituted “section 4351” for “section 2432”.

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50 U.S.C. § 2577

Title 50War and National Defense

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Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60