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10 U.S.C. § 7276 — Silver star: award
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The President may award a silver star of appropriate design, with ribbons and appurtenances, to a person who, while serving in any capacity with the Army, is cited for gallantry in action that does not warrant a medal of honor or distinguished-service cross—
(1) while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States;
(2) while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or
(3) while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.
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The President may award a silver star of appropriate design, with ribbons and appurtenances, to a person who, while serving in any capacity with the Army, is cited for gallantry in action that does not warrant a medal of honor or distinguished-service cross—
(1) while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States;
(2) while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or
(3) while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.
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**(a) Defense Acquisition System.—** In this part, the term “defense acquisition system” means—
(1) the workforce engaged in carrying out the acquisition of property and services for the Department of Defense;
(2) the management structure responsible for directing and overseeing the acquisition of property and services for the Department of Defense; and
(3) the statutory, regulatory, and policy framework that guides the acquisition of property and services for the Department of Defense.
**(b) Element of the Defense Acquisition System.—** In this part, the term “element of the defense acquisition system” means an organization that—
(1) employs members of the acquisition workforce;
(2) carries out acquisition functions; and
(3) focuses primarily on acquisition.
**(c) Acquisition.—** In this part, the term “acquisition” has the meaning provided in [section 131 of title 41](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section131&num=0&edition=prelim).
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The regulations referred to in sections 3744 and 3745(a) and (b) of this title shall require prime contractors of a covered contract, to the maximum extent practicable, to apply the provisions of such regulations to all subcontractors of the covered contract.
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**(a) Content and Form.—** A proposal for settlement of indirect costs applicable to a covered contract shall include a certification by an official of the contractor that, to the best of the certifying official’s knowledge and belief, all indirect costs included in the proposal are allowable. Any such certification shall be in a form prescribed in the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
**(b) Waiver.—** The head of the agency or the Secretary of the military department concerned may, in an exceptional case, waive the requirement for certification under subsection (a) in the case of any contract if the head of the agency or the Secretary—
(1) determines in such case that it would be in the interest of the United States to waive such certification; and
(2) states in writing the reasons for that determination and makes such determination available to the public.
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**(a) Establishment** There is established a Department of Homeland Security, as an executive department of the United States within the meaning of title 5.
**(b) Mission**
(1) **In general** — The primary mission of the Department is to—
(A) prevent terrorist attacks within the United States;
(B) reduce the vulnerability of the United States to terrorism;
(C) minimize the damage, and assist in the recovery, from terrorist attacks that do occur within the United States;
(D) carry out all functions of entities transferred to the Department, including by acting as a focal point regarding natural and manmade crises and emergency planning;
(E) ensure that the functions of the agencies and subdivisions within the Department that are not related directly to securing the homeland are not diminished or neglected except by a specific explicit Act of Congress;
(F) ensure that the overall economic security of the United States is not diminished by efforts, activities, and programs aimed at securing the homeland;
(G) ensure that the civil rights and civil liberties of persons are not diminished by efforts, activities, and programs aimed at securing the homeland; and
(H) monitor connections between illegal drug trafficking and terrorism, coordinate efforts to sever such connections, and otherwise contribute to efforts to interdict illegal drug trafficking.
(2) **Responsibility for investigating and prosecuting terrorism** — Except as specifically provided by law with respect to entities transferred to the Department under this chapter, primary responsibility for investigating and prosecuting acts of terrorism shall be vested not in the Department, but rather in Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction over the acts in question.
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 7276
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
Revised
section
Source (U.S. Code)
Source (Statutes at Large)
3745 .........
10:1410.
July 9, 1918, ch. 143 (16th
par., less words after
semicolon, under ‘‘Ord-
nance Department’’),
40 Stat. 872.
The words ‘‘under such conditions, regulations, and
limitations as he shall prescribe’’ are omitted as sur-
plusage. The words ‘‘his authority’’ are substituted for
the words ‘‘the power conferred upon him by sections
1403, 1406–1408, 1409–1412, 1416, 1420, 1422, 1423, and 1424 of
this title’’.
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 3745 of this
title as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
EFFECTIVE DATE OF 2018 AMENDMENT
Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019,
with provision for the coordination of amendments and
special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800
of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section
3001 of this title.
§ 7276. Silver star: award
The President may award a silver star of ap-
propriate design, with ribbons and appur-
tenances, to a person who, while serving in any
capacity with the Army, is cited for gallantry in
action that does not warrant a medal of honor
or distinguished-service cross—
(1) while engaged in an action against an
enemy of the United States;
(2) while engaged in military operations in-
volving conflict with an opposing foreign
force; or
(3) while serving with friendly foreign forces
engaged in an armed conflict against an oppos-
ing armed force in which the United States is
not a belligerent party.
(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 216, § 3746; Pub.
L. 88–77, § 1(3), July 25, 1963, 77 Stat. 93; renum-
bered § 7276, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII,
§ 808
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