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10 U.S.C. § 2229 — Strategic policy on prepositioning of materiel and equipment

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10 U.S.C. § 2229 — Strategic policy on prepositioning of materiel and equipment

**(a) Policy Required.—** (1) **In general.—** — The Secretary of Defense shall maintain a strategic policy on the programs of the Department of Defense for prepositioned materiel and equipment. Such policy shall take into account national security threats, strategic mobility, service requirements, support for crisis response elements, and the requirements of the combatant commands, and shall address how the Department’s prepositioning programs, both ground and afloat, align with national defense strategies and departmental priorities. (2) **Elements.—** — The strategic policy required under paragraph (1) shall include the following elements: (A) Overarching strategic guidance concerning planning and resource priorities that link the Department of Defense’s current and future needs for prepositioned stocks, such as desired responsiveness, to evolving national defense objectives. (B) A description of the Department’s vision for prepositioning programs and the desired end state. (C) Specific interim goals demonstrating how the vision and end state will be achieved. (D) A description of the strategic environment, requirements for, and challenges associated with, prepositioning. (E) Metrics for how the Department will evaluate the extent to which prepositioned assets are achieving defense objectives. (F) A framework for joint departmental oversight that reviews and synchronizes the military services’ prepositioning strategies to minimize potentially duplicative efforts and maximize efficiencies in prepositioned materiel and equipment across the Department of Defense. (3) **Joint oversight.—** — The Secretary of Defense shall establish joint oversight of the military services’ prepositioning efforts to maximize efficiencies across the Department of Defen

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**(a) Policy Required.—** (1) **In general.—** — The Secretary of Defense shall maintain a strategic policy on the programs of the Department of Defense for prepositioned materiel and equipment. Such policy shall take into account national security threats, strategic mobility, service requirements, support for crisis response elements, and the requirements of the combatant commands, and shall address how the Department’s prepositioning programs, both ground and afloat, align with national defense strategies and departmental priorities. (2) **Elements.—** — The strategic policy required under paragraph (1) shall include the following elements: (A) Overarching strategic guidance concerning planning and resource priorities that link the Department of Defense’s current and future needs for prepositioned stocks, such as desired responsiveness, to evolving national defense objectives. (B) A description of the Department’s vision for prepositioning programs and the desired end state. (C) Specific interim goals demonstrating how the vision and end state will be achieved. (D) A description of the strategic environment, requirements for, and challenges associated with, prepositioning. (E) Metrics for how the Department will evaluate the extent to which prepositioned assets are achieving defense objectives. (F) A framework for joint departmental oversight that reviews and synchronizes the military services’ prepositioning strategies to minimize potentially duplicative efforts and maximize efficiencies in prepositioned materiel and equipment across the Department of Defense. (3) **Joint oversight.—** — The Secretary of Defense shall establish joint oversight of the military services’ prepositioning efforts to maximize efficiencies across the Department of Defense. **(b) Limitation of Diversion of Prepositioned Materiel.—** The Secretary of a military department may not divert materiel or equipment from prepositioned stocks except— (1) in accordance with a change made by the Secretary of Defense to the policy maintained under subsection (a); or (2) for the purpose of directly supporting a contingency operation or providing humanitarian assistance under chapter 20 of this title. **(c) Congressional Notification.—** The Secretary of Defense may not implement or change the policy required under subsection (a) until the Secretary submits to the congressional defense committees a report describing the policy or change to the policy. **(d) Annual Certification.—** (1) Not later than the date of the submission of the President’s budget request for a fiscal year under [section 1105 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1105&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a certification in writing that the prepositioned stocks of each of the military departments meet all operations plans, in both fill and readiness, that are in effect as of the date of the submission of the certification. (2) If, for any year, the Secretary cannot certify that any of the prepositioned stocks meet such operations plans, the Secretary shall include with the certification for that year a list of the operations plans affected, a description of any measures that have been taken to mitigate any risk associated with prepositioned stock shortfalls, and an anticipated timeframe for the replenishment of the stocks. (3) A certification under this subsection shall be in an unclassified form but may have a classified annex.

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10 U.S.C. § 111 — Executive department

**(a)** The Department of Defense is an executive department of the United States. **(b)** The Department is composed of the following: (1) The Office of the Secretary of Defense. (2) The Joint Chiefs of Staff. (3) The Joint Staff. (4) The Defense Agencies. (5) Department of Defense Field Activities. (6) The Department of the Army. (7) The Department of the Navy. (8) The Department of the Air Force. (9) The unified and specified combatant commands. (10) Such other offices, agencies, activities, and commands as may be established or designated by law or by the President. (11) All offices, agencies, activities, and commands under the control or supervision of any element named in paragraphs (1) through (10). **(c)** If the President establishes or designates an office, agency, activity, or command in the Department of Defense of a kind other than those described in paragraphs (1) through (9) of subsection (b), the President shall notify Congress not later than 60 days thereafter.

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31 U.S.C. § 1535 — Agency agreements

**(a)** The head of an agency or major organizational unit within an agency may place an order with a major organizational unit within the same agency or another agency for goods or services if— (1) amounts are available; (2) the head of the ordering agency or unit decides the order is in the best interest of the United States Government; (3) the agency or unit to fill the order is able to provide or get by contract the ordered goods or services; and (4) the head of the agency decides ordered goods or services cannot be provided by contract as conveniently or cheaply by a commercial enterprise. **(b)** Payment shall be made promptly by check on the written request of the agency or unit filling the order. Payment may be in advance or on providing the goods or services ordered and shall be for any part of the estimated or actual cost as determined by the agency or unit filling the order. A bill submitted or a request for payment is not subject to audit or certification in advance of payment. Proper adjustment of amounts paid in advance shall be made as agreed to by the heads of the agencies or units on the basis of the actual cost of goods or services provided. **(c)** A condition or limitation applicable to amounts for procurement of an agency or unit placing an order or making a contract under this section applies to the placing of the order or the making of the contract. **(d)** An order placed or agreement made under this section obligates an appropriation of the ordering agency or unit. The amount obligated is deobligated to the extent that the agency or unit filling the order has not incurred obligations, before the end of the period of availability of the appropriation, in— (1) providing goods or services; or (2) making an authorized contract with another

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31 U.S.C. § 1105 — Budget contents and submission to Congress

**(a)** On or after the first Monday in January but not later than the first Monday in February of each year, the President shall submit a budget of the United States Government for the following fiscal year. Each budget shall include a budget message and summary and supporting information. The President shall include in each budget the following: (1) information on activities and functions of the Government. (2) when practicable, information on costs and achievements of Government programs. (3) other desirable classifications of information. (4) a reconciliation of the summary information on expenditures with proposed appropriations. (5) except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations the President decides are necessary to support the Government in the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that year. (6) estimated receipts of the Government in the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted and the 4 fiscal years after that year under— (A) laws in effect when the budget is submitted; and (B) proposals in the budget to increase revenues. (7) appropriations, expenditures, and receipts of the Government in the prior fiscal year. (8) estimated expenditures and receipts, and appropriations and proposed appropriations, of the Government for the current fiscal year. (9) balanced statements of the— (A) condition of the Treasury at the end of the prior fiscal year; (B) estimated condition of the Treasury at the end of the current fiscal year; and (C) estimated condition of the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted if financial proposals in the budget are adopted. (10) essential information about the debt of the Government.

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10 U.S.C. § 229 — Programs for combating terrorism: display of budget information

**(a) Submission With Annual Budget Justification Documents.—** The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress, as a part of the documentation that supports the President’s annual budget for the Department of Defense, a consolidated budget justification display, in classified and unclassified form, that includes all programs and activities of the Department of Defense combating terrorism program. **(b) Requirements for Budget Display.—** The budget display under subsection (a) shall include— (1) the amount requested, by appropriation and functional area, for each of the program elements, projects, and initiatives that support the Department of Defense combating terrorism program, with supporting narrative descriptions and rationale for the funding levels requested; and (2) a summary, to the program element and project level of detail, of estimated expenditures for the current year, funds requested for the budget year, and budget estimates through the completion of the current future-years defense plan for the Department of Defense combating terrorism program. **(c) Explanation of Inconsistencies.—** As part of the budget display under subsection (a) for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall identify and explain— (1) any inconsistencies between (A) the information submitted under subsection (b) for that fiscal year, and (B) the information provided to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in support of the annual report of the President to Congress on funding for executive branch counterterrorism and antiterrorism programs and activities for that fiscal year in accordance with section 1051(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 ([31 U.S.C. 1113](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section111

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10 U.S.C. § 2229 — Strategic policy on prepositioning of ma-

Page 1816 TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES § 2229 ‘‘(2) submit to the congressional defense commit- tees written justification of why compliance was not feasible or achieved. ‘‘(d) CORROSION STUDY.—The corrosion study de- scribed in this subsection is the study required in House Report 111–166 accompanying H.R. 2647 of the 111th Congress [Pub. L. 111–84] conducted by the Office of the Director of Corrosion Policy and Oversight of the Office of the Secretary of Defense and titled ‘Corrosion Evaluation of the F–22 Raptor and F–35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter’.’’ CORROSION CONTROL AND PREVENTION EXECUTIVES FOR THE MILITARY DEPARTMENTS Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title III, § 322, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2075, provided that: ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 23, 2016], the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Tech- nology, and Logistics, in coordination with the Direc- tor of Corrosion Policy and Oversight for the Depart- ment of Defense, shall revise guidance relating to cor- rosion control and prevention executives to— ‘‘(1) clarify the role of each such executive with re- spect to assisting the Office of Corrosion Policy and Oversight in holding the appropriate project manage- ment office in each military department accountable for submitting the annual report required under [former] section 903(b)(5) of the Duncan Hunter Na- tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417; 10 U.S.C. 2228 note [set out below]); and ‘‘(2) ensure that corrosion control and prevention executives emphasize the reduction of corrosion and the effects of corrosion on the military equipment and infrastructure of the Department of Defense, as required in the long-term strategy of the Departme

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