10 U.S.C. § 3015 — Simplified acquisition threshold

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.

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.