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10 USC § 3783 - Technical data: time for contractors to submit justifications 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s3783"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_legal_evidence"
title: "10 USC § 3783 - Technical data: time for contractors to submit justifications"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "3783"
section_name: "Technical data: time for contractors to submit justifications"
chapter_number: 275
chapter_name: "PROPRIETARY CONTRACTOR DATA AND RIGHTS IN TECHNICAL DATA"
subchapter_number: "II"
subchapter_name: "VALIDATION OF PROPRIETARY DATA RESTRICTIONS"
part_number: "V"
part_name: "ACQUISITION"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added and amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title XVIII, § 1833(g), (j), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4231, 4232.)"
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# § 3783. Technical data: time for contractors to submit justifications

**(a)** **Additional Time to Submit Justifications.—** If a contractor or subcontractor asserting a use or release restriction submits to the contracting officer a written request, showing the need for additional time to comply with the requirement to justify the current validity of the asserted restriction, additional time to adequately permit the submission of such justification shall be provided by the contracting officer as appropriate.

**(b)** **Multiple Challenges; Schedule of Responses.—** If a party asserting a restriction receives notices of challenges to restrictions on technical data from more than one contracting officer, and notifies each contracting officer of the existence of more than one challenge, the contracting officer initiating the first in time challenge, after consultation with the party asserting the restriction and the other contracting officers, shall formulate a schedule of responses to each of the challenges that will afford the party asserting the restriction with an equitable opportunity to respond to each such challenge.

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**Source Credit**: (Added and amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title XVIII, § 1833(g), (j), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4231, 4232.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

The text of subsec. (e) of , which was transferred to this section and amended by , was based on , , ; , (B), , , 277.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3783, , ; , , , provided for boards of review, composed of three or more officers, to be convened by Secretary of the Army, at such places as he prescribes, to review records of cases of officers recommended by boards of inquiry for removal from active list of Regular Army, prior to repeal by , title VII, § 701, , , 2955, effective .

### Amendments

2021—, transferred subsec. (e) of  to this section, struck out subsec. (e) designation and heading “Time for Contractors to Submit Justifications” at beginning, and designated first and second sentences of existing provisions as subsecs. (a) and (b), respectively, and inserted headings.

## 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 .