---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 195"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "195"
heading: "Defense Automated Printing Service: applicability of Federal printing requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/195"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 8 — Defense Agencies and Department of Defense Field Activities"
  - "Subchapter I — Common Supply and Service Activities"
---

# §195. Defense Automated Printing Service: applicability of Federal printing requirements


The Defense Automated Printing Service shall comply fully with the requirements of [section 501 of title 44](/usc/44/501.md) relating to the production and [procurement](/usc/10/3011.md?p=1) of printing, binding, and blank-book work.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title III, § 383(a), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1711.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Authority To Procure Services From Government Publishing Office

Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title III, § 387(c), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1713, as amended by Pub. L. 113–235, div. H, title I, § 1301(b), Dec. 16, 2014, 128 Stat. 2537, provided that: “Consistent with section 501 of title 44, United States Code, the Secretary of a military department or head of a Defense Agency may contract directly with the Government Publishing Office for printing and duplication services otherwise available through the Defense Automated Printing Service.”