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Code · BILL · 119th Congress · H.R. 3838 (Engrossed in House) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military c... · Sec. 1831

Sec. 1831. Amendment to other transaction authority

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Section 4022 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a)(2)— in subparagraph (A), by striking agency that and all that follows through the use and inserting agency that the use ; in subparagraph (B)— in clause (i), by striking writing that and all that follows through the use and inserting writing that the use ; and in clause (ii), by striking and at the end; in subparagraph (C)— by striking subsection
(f)each place it appears and inserting subsection
(e); in clause (i)(I), by striking the requirements of subsection
(d)and all that follows through and the and inserting the ; and in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: may not be exercised for contracts exceeding the production of 500 units of a manufactured or developed product. Contracts exceeding this production threshold may not be categorized as a “prototype” or contracted as such. ; by striking subsection (d); by redesignating subsections
(e)through
(i)as subsections
(d)through (h), respectively; and in subsection (f), as so redesignated, by striking subsection
(f)and inserting subsection
(e). Section 102A(n)(6)(C) of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3024(n)(6)(C) ) is amended— by repealing clauses
(v)and (vi); and in clause (vii)— in the matter preceding subclause (I), by striking 4022(f)(2) and inserting 4022(e)(2) ; and in subclause (V)(cc), by striking 4022(f)(5) and inserting 4022(e)(5) . Section 831(d) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ( 6 U.S.C. 391(d) ) is amended by striking 4022(e) and inserting 4022(d) . Section 873(c)(1) of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 ( Public Law 115–232 ; 10 U.S.C. 4021 note) is amended— in subparagraph (A), by striking subsection
(f)and inserting subsection
(e); and in subparagraph (E), by striking or
(f)and inserting or
(e). Section 322(h)(2) of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 ( Public Law 117–263 ; 10 U.S.C. 2911 note) is amended by striking subsection
(f)and inserting subsection
(e).
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