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10 U.S.C. § 8671 — Determination of vessel delivery dates
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**(a) In General.—** The delivery of a covered vessel shall be deemed to occur on the date on which—
(1) the Secretary of the Navy determines that the vessel is assembled and complete; and
(2) custody of the vessel and all systems contained in the vessel transfers to the Navy.
**(b) Inclusion in Budget and Acquisition Reports.—** The delivery dates of covered vessels shall be included—
(1) in the materials submitted to Congress by the Secretary of Defense in support of the budget of the President for each fiscal year (as submitted to Congress under [section 1105(a) of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1105/a&num=0&edition=prelim), United States Code); and
(2) in any relevant Selected Acquisition Report submitted to Congress under [section 4351 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4351&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Listing as Battle Force Ship in Naval Vessel Register.—** A covered vessel may not be listed in the Naval Vessel Register or other fleet inventory measures as a battle force ship until the delivery date specified in subsection (a).
**(d) Definitions.—** In this section:
(1) The term “covered vessel” means any vessel of the Navy that is under construction or constructed using amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Defense for shipbuilding and conversion, Navy.
(2) The term “battle force ship” means the following:
(A) A commissioned United States Ship warship capable of contributing to combat operations.
(B) A United States Naval Ship that contributes directly to Navy warfighting or support missions.
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**(a) In General.—** The delivery of a covered vessel shall be deemed to occur on the date on which—
(1) the Secretary of the Navy determines that the vessel is assembled and complete; and
(2) custody of the vessel and all systems contained in the vessel transfers to the Navy.
**(b) Inclusion in Budget and Acquisition Reports.—** The delivery dates of covered vessels shall be included—
(1) in the materials submitted to Congress by the Secretary of Defense in support of the budget of the President for each fiscal year (as submitted to Congress under [section 1105(a) of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1105/a&num=0&edition=prelim), United States Code); and
(2) in any relevant Selected Acquisition Report submitted to Congress under [section 4351 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section4351&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Listing as Battle Force Ship in Naval Vessel Register.—** A covered vessel may not be listed in the Naval Vessel Register or other fleet inventory measures as a battle force ship until the delivery date specified in subsection (a).
**(d) Definitions.—** In this section:
(1) The term “covered vessel” means any vessel of the Navy that is under construction or constructed using amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Defense for shipbuilding and conversion, Navy.
(2) The term “battle force ship” means the following:
(A) A commissioned United States Ship warship capable of contributing to combat operations.
(B) A United States Naval Ship that contributes directly to Navy warfighting or support missions.
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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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**(a)** In this section:
(1) The term “program acquisition unit cost”, with respect to a major defense acquisition program, means the amount equal to (A) the total cost for development and procurement of, and system-specific military construction for, the acquisition program, divided by (B) the number of fully-configured end items to be produced for the acquisition program.
(2) The term “procurement unit cost”, with respect to a major defense acquisition program, means the amount equal to (A) the total of all funds programmed to be available for obligation for procurement for the program, divided by (B) the number of fully-configured end items to be procured.
(3) The term “major contract”, with respect to a major defense acquisition program, means each of the six largest prime, associate, or Government-furnished equipment contracts under the program that is in excess of $40,000,000 and that is not a firm, fixed price contract.
(4) The term “full life-cycle cost”, with respect to a major defense acquisition program, means all costs of development, procurement, military construction, and operations and support, without regard to funding source or management control.
**(b)**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress at the end of each fiscal-year quarter a report on current major defense acquisition programs and any program that is estimated by the Secretary of Defense to require an eventual total expenditure for research, development, test, and evaluation of more than $300,000,000 (based on fiscal year 1990 constant dollars) or an eventual total expenditure for procurement, including all planned increments or spirals, of more than $1,800,000,000 (based on fiscal year 1990 constant dollars). Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), each such report s
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**(a)** The Secretary of the Army shall issue a campaign medal, to be known as the Korea Defense Service Medal, to each person who while a member of the Army served in the Republic of Korea or the waters adjacent thereto during the KDSM eligibility period and met the service requirements for the award of that medal prescribed under subsection (c).
**(b)** In this section, the term “KDSM eligibility period” means the period beginning on July 28, 1954, and ending on such date after the date of the enactment of this section as may be determined by the Secretary of Defense to be appropriate for terminating eligibility for the Korea Defense Service Medal.
**(c)** The Secretary of the Army shall prescribe service requirements for eligibility for the Korea Defense Service Medal. Those requirements shall not be more stringent than the service requirements for award of the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for instances in which the award of that medal is authorized.
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**(a) In General.—** Not later than 45 days after the date of the delivery of the first ship in a new class of battle force ships, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the employment, maintenance, and manning baseline plans for the class, including a description of the following:
(1) The sustainment and maintenance plans for the class that encompass the number of years the class is expected to be in service, including—
(A) the allocation of maintenance tasks among organizational, intermediate, depot, or other activities;
(B) the planned duration and interval of maintenance for all depot-level maintenance availabilities; and
(C) the planned duration and interval of drydock maintenance periods.
(2) Any contractually required integrated logistics support deliverables for the ship, including technical manuals, and an identification of—
(A) the deliverables provided to the Government on or before the delivery date; and
(B) the deliverables not provided to the Government on or before the delivery date and the expected dates those deliverables will be provided to the Government.
(3) The planned maintenance system for the ship, including—
(A) the elements of the system, including maintenance requirement cards, completed on or before the delivery date;
(B) the elements of the system not completed on or before the delivery date and the expected completion date of those elements; and
(C) the plans to complete planned maintenance from the delivery date until all elements of the system have been completed.
(4) The coordinated shipboard allowance list for the class, including—
(A) the items on the list onboard on or before the delivery date; and
(B) the items on the list not onboard on or before t
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 8671
‘‘(2) The maturity of developmental command and
control systems, weapon and sensor systems, and hull,
mechanical and electrical systems.
‘‘(3) The readiness of the shipyard facilities and work-
force to begin construction.
‘‘(4) The Navy’s estimated cost at completion and the
adequacy of the budget to support the estimate.
‘‘(5) The Navy’s estimated delivery date and descrip-
tion of any variance to the contract delivery date.
‘‘(6) The extent to which adequate processes and
metrics are in place to measure and manage program
risks.’’
Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 118–159, § 1024(3)(A)(i), inserted
‘‘, and when used with respect to manned surface and
undersea combatants, means design through the com-
pletion of three-dimensional computer aided modeling’’
after ‘‘computer aided models’’ in introductory provi-
sions.
Subsec. (c)(1)(A). Pub. L. 118–159, § 1024(3)(A)(ii), sub-
stituted ‘‘supports’’ for ‘‘fixes’’.
Subsec. (c)(1)(C). Pub. L. 118–159, § 1024(3)(A)(iii), sub-
stituted ‘‘positions and routes all major distributive
systems of the ship’’ for ‘‘routes major portions of all
distributive systems of the vessel’’.
Subsec. (c)(5). Pub. L. 118–159, § 1024(3)(B), struck out
par. (5) which defined ‘‘start of construction’’.
§ 8670. Contracts for nuclear ships: sales of naval
shipyard articles and services to private
shipyards
The conditions set forth in section 2208(j)(1)(B)
of this title and subsections (a)(1) and (c)(1)(A)
of section 2563 of this title shall not apply to a
sale by a naval shipyard of articles or services
to a private shipyard that is made at the request
of the private shipyard in order to facilitate the
private shipyard’s fulfillment of a Department
of Defense contract with respect to a nuclear
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