---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1761"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1761"
heading: "Management information system"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1761"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 87 — Defense Acquisition Workforce"
  - "Subchapter V — General Management Provisions"
---

# §1761. Management information system

- (a) **In General.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall prescribe regulations to ensure that the [military departments](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-8) and [Defense Agencies](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-11) establish a management information system capable of providing standardized information to the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) on [persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) serving in acquisition positions.
- (b) **Minimum Information.—** The management information system shall, at a minimum, provide for the following:
  - (1) The collection and retention of information concerning the qualifications, assignments, and tenure of [persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) in the [acquisition workforce](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-18).
  - (2) Any exceptions and waivers granted with respect to the application of qualification, assignment, and tenure policies, procedures, and practices to such [persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2).
  - (3) Relative promotion [rates](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) for [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) personnel in the [acquisition workforce](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-18).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title XII, § 1202(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1653; amended Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title IX, § 904(d)(1), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1728; Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title X, § 1048(b)(2), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1225; Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title X, § 1084(d)(15), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 2062.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 108–375 substituted “provide for the following:” for “provide for—” in introductory provisions, capitalized first letter of first word in pars. (1) to (3), substituted period for semicolon at end in pars. (1) and (2), substituted period for “; and” at end in par. (3), and struck out par. (4) which read as follows: “collection of the information necessary for the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics and the Secretary of Defense to comply with the requirements of section 1762 for the years in which that section is in effect.”

2001—Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 107–107 substituted “Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics” for “Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology”.

1993—Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 103–160 substituted “Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology” for “Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Establishment of Management Information System

Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title XII, § 1209(k), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1667, required the Secretary of Defense to prescribe in regulations the requirements under this section for the uniform management information system by Oct. 1, 1991, and ensure that the requirements were implemented by Oct. 1, 1992.