10 U.S.C. § 4373 — Unit cost reports: immediate report from program manager to service acquisition executive upon breach of significant cost growth threshold

If the program manager of a major defense acquisition program^* for which a unit cost report has previously been submitted under section 4372 of this title determines at any time during a quarter that there is reasonable cause to believe that the program acquisition unit cost^* for the program (or for a designated major subprogram under the program) or the procurement unit cost^* for the program (or for such a subprogram), as applicable, has increased by a percentage equal to or greater than the significant cost growth threshold^*; and if a unit cost report indicating an increase of such percentage or more has not previously been submitted to the service acquisition executive^* designated by the Secretary concerned^*, then the program manager shall immediately submit to such service acquisition^* executive a unit cost report containing the information, determined as of the date of the report, required under section 4372 of this title.