10 USC § 3015 - Simplified acquisition threshold

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title: "10 USC § 3015 - Simplified acquisition threshold"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "3015"
section_name: "Simplified acquisition threshold"
chapter_number: 201
chapter_name: "DEFINITIONS"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "DEFINITIONS APPLICABLE TO PROCUREMENT GENERALLY"
part_number: "V"
part_name: "ACQUISITION"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added and amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title XVIII, § 1806(b)(1), (6), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4153, 4154.)"
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# § 3015. Simplified acquisition threshold

In this part:

**(1)** The term “simplified acquisition threshold” has the meaning provided that term in section 134 of title 41, except that, in the case of any contract to be awarded and performed, or purchase to be made, outside the United States in support of a contingency operation or a humanitarian or peacekeeping operation, the term means an amount equal to two times the amount specified for that term in such section.

**(2)** The term “humanitarian or peacekeeping operation” means a military operation in support of the provision of humanitarian or foreign disaster assistance or in support of a peacekeeping operation under chapter VI or VII of the Charter of the United Nations. The term does not include routine training, force rotation, or stationing.

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**Source Credit**: (Added and amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title XVIII, § 1806(b)(1), (6), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4153, 4154.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

The text of pars. (7) and (8) of , which were transferred to this section, redesignated as pars. (1) and (2), respectively, and amended by , was based on , , ; , , ; , , ; , , ; , , .

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3015 was renumbered .

Another prior section 3015, acts , , § 3014; renumbered § 3015, , , , related to Comptroller and Deputy Comptroller of the Army, powers and duties, and appointment, prior to repeal by .

Another prior section 3015 was renumbered  and subsequently repealed.

### Amendments

2021—, redesignated pars. (7) and (8) of  as pars. (1) and (2), respectively, of this section and inserted introductory provisions.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section and amendment by  effective , with additional provisions for delayed implementation and applicability of existing law, see , set out as an Effective Date of 2021 Amendment note preceding .