---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 166"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "166"
heading: "Combatant commands: budget proposals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/166"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 6 — Combatant Commands"
---

# §166. Combatant commands: budget proposals

- (a) **Combatant Command Budgets.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall include in the annual budget of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense submitted to Congress a separate budget proposal for such activities of each of the unified and specified combatant commands as may be determined under [subsection (b)](#b).
- (b) **Content of Proposals.—** A budget proposal under [subsection (a)](#a) for funding of activities of a combatant command shall include funding proposals for such activities of the combatant command as the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) (after consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) determines to be appropriate for inclusion. Activities of a combatant command for which funding may be requested in such a proposal include the following:
  - (1) Joint exercises.
  - (2) Force [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9).
  - (3) Contingencies.
  - (4) Selected operations.
- (c) **SOF Training With Foreign Forces.—** A funding proposal for force [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) under [subsection (b)(2)](#b-2) may include amounts for [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) expense payments authorized in [section 322 of this title](/usc/10/322.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–433, title II, § 211(a), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1016; amended Pub. L. 102–190, div. A, title X, § 1052(b), Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1471; Pub. L. 115–91, div. A, title X, § 1081(a)(11), Dec. 12, 2017, 131 Stat. 1594.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2017—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 115–91 substituted “section 322” for “section 2011”.

1991—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102–190 added subsec. (c).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 99–433, title II, § 214(d), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1019, provided that: “Section 166 of title 10, United States Code (as added by section 211 of this Act), shall take effect with budget proposals for fiscal year 1989.”