10 USC § 6161 - Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on certain hardware relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s6161"
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title: "10 USC § 6161 - Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on certain hardware relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "6161"
section_name: "Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on certain hardware relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation"
chapter_number: 603
chapter_name: "PROLIFERATION MATTERS"
part_number: "VI"
part_name: "ELEMENTS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND OTHER MATTERS"
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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. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (d)(2), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1385, 1462.)"
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# § 6161. Annual Selected Acquisition Reports on certain hardware relating to defense nuclear nonproliferation

**(a)** **Annual Selected Acquisition Reports.—**

**(1)** At the end of each fiscal year, the Administrator shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on each covered hardware project. The reports shall be known as Selected Acquisition Reports for the covered hardware project concerned.

**(2)** The information contained in the Selected Acquisition Report for a fiscal year for a covered hardware project shall be the information contained in the Selected Acquisition Report for such fiscal year for a major defense acquisition program under section 4351 or any successor system, expressed in terms of the covered hardware project.

**(b)** **Covered Hardware Project Defined.—** In this section, the term “covered hardware project” means a project carried out under the defense nuclear nonproliferation research and development program that—

**(1)** is focused on the production and deployment of hardware, including with respect to the development and deployment of satellites or satellite payloads; and

**(2)** exceeds $500,000,000 in total program cost over the course of five years.

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**Source Credit**: (Added and amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (d)(2), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1385, 1462.)

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 6161 was renumbered .

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in , War and National Defense, prior to repeal by .

### Amendments

2025—, realigned margins.

Subsec. (a). , struck out pars. (1) and (2) headings which read as follows: “” and “”, respectively.