---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 10201"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "10201"
heading: "Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/10201"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part I — Organization and Administration"
  - "Chapter 1007 — Administration of Reserve Components"
---

# §10201. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs


As provided in [section 138(b)(2)](/usc/10/138.md?p=b-2)[^1] of this title, the official in the [Department](/usc/10/12521.md?p=5) of Defense with responsibility for overall supervision of [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) affairs of the [Department](/usc/10/12521.md?p=5) of Defense is the Assistant [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) of Defense for Manpower and [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) Affairs.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1661(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2976; amended Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title IX, § 903(f)(4), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 402; Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title IX, § 901, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2617; Pub. L. 113–291, div. A, title IX, § 902(b)(1), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3469.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Section 138(b)(2) of this title, referred to in text, was struck out and subsec. (b)(4) was redesignated subsec. (b)(2) by Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title IX, § 907(b), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1514.

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–291 amended section generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “As provided in section 138(b)(2) of this title, the official in the Department of Defense with responsibility for overall supervision of reserve component affairs of the Department of Defense is the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs.”

1996—Pub. L. 104–106, § 903(a), (f)(4), which directed that this section be amended, eff. Jan. 31, 1997, to read “The official in the Department of Defense with responsibility for overall supervision of reserve component affairs of the Department of Defense is the official designated by the Secretary of Defense to have that responsibility.”, was repealed by Pub. L. 104–201.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 1, 1994, except as otherwise provided, see section 1691 of Pub. L. 103–337, set out as a note under section 10001 of this title.