---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 20244"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "20244"
heading: "Eligibility for consideration for promotion: duty assignments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/20244"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Alternative Military Personnel Systems"
  - "Part I — Space Force"
  - "Chapter 2005 — Officers"
  - "Subchapter III — Promotions"
---

# §20244. Eligibility for consideration for promotion: duty assignments

- (a) **Regulations.—** The Secretary of the Air Force shall prescribe regulations to ensure that an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) on the Space Force [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) list is not considered for promotion to the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of brigadier general unless the [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) has completed—
  - (1) a duty assignment with a command or other organization that has responsibility for acquisition matters; and
  - (2) a duty assignment with a command or other organization that has responsibility for operations.
- (b) **Implementation Date.—**
  - (1) The Secretary of the Air Force shall prescribe the regulations required under [subsection (a)](#a) not later than one year after the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026; and
  - (2) The regulations required under [subsection (a)](#a) shall apply to [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) considered for promotion to brigadier general on or after January 1, 2035.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title XVI, § 1601(d)(1), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1174.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The date of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, referred to in subsec. (b), is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 119–60, which was approved Dec. 18, 2025.