10 U.S.C. § 221 — Future-years defense program: submission to Congress; consistency in budgeting

(a) Each year, the Secretary of Defense must submit to Congress a future-years defense program — including any related annexes — no later than five days after the President's budget for that year is submitted to Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31. This program must reflect the same estimated spending and proposed appropriations as that budget, and must cover the fiscal year the budget addresses plus at least the next four fiscal years. (b) The Secretary of Defense must make sure two sets of figures for any fiscal year stay consistent: (A) the amounts shown in the program and budget information the Secretary submits to Congress supporting the President's expenditure estimates and proposed appropriations, as reflected in the future-years defense program submitted under subsection (a); and (B) the total estimated spending and proposed appropriations actually needed to support the Defense Department's programs, projects, and activities, as included under paragraph (5) of section 1105(a) of title 31 in the President's budget for that year. (c) This section doesn't stop the future-years defense program from including amounts for management contingencies, as long as those amounts still satisfy the consistency requirement in subsection (b). (d) The Secretary of Defense must make each future-years defense program available to Congress, the Congressional Budget Office, the Comptroller General of the United States, and the Congressional Research Service, in two ways: (A) as an unclassified electronic database; and (B) as printed copies delivered to the congressional defense committees. If including classified material would otherwise make the whole program classified, the program must instead be given to Congress in unclassified form, with the classified material attached as a separate classified annex — and that annex must still be submitted to the congressional defense committees, the Congressional Budget Office, the Comptroller General, and the Congressional Research Service. (e) Each future-years defense program must come with a certification — from the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) for the Department of Defense as a whole, and from each military department's own comptroller for that department — that the information entered into the Defense Department's Standard Data Collection System, the Comptroller Information System, or any other relevant data system, for building that future-years defense program, was accurate.