Title 10, Chapter 3 — General Powers and Functions

Regulations

Official registers

Public availability of Department of Defense reports required by law

Authority to suspend officer personnel laws during war or national emergency

Suspension of end-strength and other strength limitations in time of war or national emergency

Forces stationed abroad: limitation on number

Detection and monitoring of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs: Department of Defense to be lead agency

Functions, powers, and duties: transfer, reassignment, consolidation, or abolition

Reform: improvement of efficacy and efficiency

Transfer of funds and employees

Emergency and extraordinary expenses

Operations for which funds are not provided in advance: funding mechanisms

Department of Defense rewards program

Purchase of weapons overseas: force protection

Support of special operations for irregular warfare

Support of special operations to combat terrorism

Expenditure of funds for clandestine activities that support operational preparation of the environment and non-conventional assisted recovery capabilities

Control and physical protection of special nuclear material: limitation on dissemination of unclassified information

Civilian personnel management

General policy for total force management

Authority to procure personal services

Medical personnel: limitations on reductions

Disclosure to litigation support contractors

Authority to withhold from public disclosure certain technical data

Department of Defense support for funerals and memorial events for Members and former Members of Congress

Personnel in overseas, sensitive, or routinely deployable units: nondisclosure of personally identifying information

Nondisclosure of information: certain sensitive information of foreign governments and international organizations

Treatment under Freedom of Information Act of certain confidential information shared with State and local personnel

Treatment under Freedom of Information Act of certain critical infrastructure security information

Notification requirements for sensitive military operations

Oversight of sensitive activities of the Department of Defense.

Notification requirements for waivers issued under Department of Defense guidance related to autonomy in weapon systems

Repealed. Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title XVI, § 1649(b)(1), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2199]

Protection of certain facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft

Renumbered §§ 395, 396]