10 U.S.C. § 499a — Collection, storage, and sharing of data relating to nuclear security enterprise and nuclear forces
submitted 9 years ago by Pub. L. 115-91 to r/title-10-ARMED-FORCES · 444 words · no verdicts yet
The Defense Department and the Nuclear Security Administration must collect and store data on nuclear programs. They must share this data with each other and with other agencies when needed. New nuclear-related contracts after 2017 must require reporting of cost and technical data.
(a) In General.
The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, and the Administrator for Nuclear Security, acting through the Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation, must collect and store cost, programmatic, and technical data about programs and projects in the nuclear security enterprise and nuclear forces.
(b) Sharing of Data.
If the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation or the Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation asks any part of the Department of Defense, or any part of the National Nuclear Security Administration's nuclear security enterprise, for data on a program or project, that part must provide the data promptly.
(c) Storage of Data.
(1) Data collected under this section must be stored in the Defense Cost and Resource Center's data storage system (or its successor), or in a comparable National Nuclear Security Administration data storage system. It must be made accessible to other federal agencies as the Directors think appropriate.
(2) The Secretary and the Administrator must make sure the Directors have enough information system support to host, handle, and share this data promptly, at whatever classification level is appropriate.
(3) The Deputy Administrator for Naval Reactors may coordinate with the Directors to make sure data about Office of Naval Reactors programs and projects is correctly represented in the storage system, if the Deputy Administrator chooses to.
(d) Contract Requirements.
The Secretary and the Administrator must make sure that any relevant contract for a nuclear security enterprise or nuclear forces program or project, entered into after December 11, 2017, properly includes:
(1) Requirements and standards for collecting data; and
(2) Requirements for reporting cost, programmatic, and technical data, using procedures, standards, and formats the Directors approve.
(e) Nuclear Security Enterprise Defined.
In this section, "nuclear security enterprise" has the same meaning given in section 6101.
The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, and the Administrator for Nuclear Security, acting through the Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation, shall collect and store cost, programmatic, and technical data relating to programs and projects of the nuclear security enterprise and nuclear forces.
If the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation or the Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation requests data relating to programs or projects from any element of the Department of Defense or from any element of the nuclear security enterprise of the National Nuclear Security Administration, that element shall provide that data in a timely manner.
Data collected by the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation and the Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation under this section shall be—
stored in the data storage system of the Defense Cost and Resource Center, or successor center, or in a data storage system of the National Nuclear Security Administration that is comparable to the data storage system of the Defense Cost and Resource Center; and
made accessible to other Federal agencies as such Directors consider appropriate.
The Secretary and the Administrator shall ensure that the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation and the Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation have sufficient information system support, as determined by such Directors, to facilitate the timely hosting, handling, and sharing of data relating to programs and projects of the nuclear security enterprise under this section at the appropriate level of classification.
The Deputy Administrator for Naval Reactors of the National Nuclear Security Administration may coordinate with the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation and the Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation to ensure that, at the discretion of the Deputy Administrator, data relating to programs and projects of the Office of Naval Reactors are correctly represented in the data storage system pursuant to paragraph (1)(A).
The Secretary and the Administrator shall ensure that any relevant contract relating to a program or project of the nuclear security enterprise and nuclear forces that is entered into after December 11, 2017, appropriately includes—
requirements and standards for data collection; and
requirements for reporting on cost, programmatic, and technical data using procedures, standards, and formats approved by the Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation and the Director for Cost Estimating and Program Evaluation.
In this section, the term “nuclear security enterprise” has the meaning given that term in section 6101.
Source credit: (Added Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title XVI, § 1652(a), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1757; amended Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title X, § 1081(a)(7), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1983; Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(c)(1)(B), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1460.)
- 2017Enacted · Pub. L. 115-91 · 131 Stat. 1757
- 2018Amended · Pub. L. 115-232 · 132 Stat. 1983
- 2025Amended · Pub. L. 119-60 · 139 Stat. 1460
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 115-91 on 2017-12-12.
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