---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1582"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1582"
heading: "Assistive technology, assistive technology devices, and assistive technology services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1582"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 81 — Civilian Employees"
---

# §1582. Assistive technology, assistive technology devices, and assistive technology services

- (a) **Authority.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may provide assistive technology, assistive technology devices, and assistive technology services to the following:
  - (1) [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense employees with disabilities.
  - (2) Organizations within the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) that have requirements to make [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) or [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) accessible to, and usable by, [persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) with disabilities.
  - (3) Any other [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) or [agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) of the Federal Government, upon the request of the head of that [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) or [agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3), for its employees with disabilities or for satisfying a requirement to make its [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) or [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) accessible to, and usable by, [persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) with disabilities.
- (b) **Definitions.—** In this section, the terms “assistive technology”, “assistive technology device”, “assistive technology service”, and “disability” have the meanings given those terms in section 3 of the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 ([29 U.S.C. 3002](/usc/29/3002.md)).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title XI, § 1102(a)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–311.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 1582, acts Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 118; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85–861, § 1(35), 72 Stat. 1456; Sept. 23, 1959, Pub. L. 86–377, § 3, 73 Stat. 701, directed Secretary of Defense to report annually to Congress on civilian research and development personnel employed by Department of Defense under former section 1581 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 97–295, § 1(19)(A), Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1290.