---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2209"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2209"
heading: "Management funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2209"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 131 — Planning and Coordination"
---

# §2209. Management funds

- (a) To conduct economically and efficiently the operations of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense that are financed by at least two appropriations but whose costs cannot be immediately distributed and charged to those appropriations, there is the Army Management Fund, the Navy Management Fund, and the Air Force Management Fund, each within its respective [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) and under the direction of the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of that [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6). Each such fund shall consist of a corpus of $1,000,000 and such amounts as may be appropriated thereto from time to time. An account for an operation that is to be financed by such a fund may be established only with the approval of the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense.
- (b) Under such regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may prescribe, expenditures may be made from a management fund for material (other than for stock), personal services, and services under contract. However, obligation may not be incurred against that fund if it is not chargeable to funds available under an appropriation of the [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned or funds of another [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) or [agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense. The fund shall be promptly reimbursed from those funds for expenditures made from it.
- (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, advances, by check or warrant, or reimbursements, may be made from available appropriations to a management fund on the basis of the estimated cost of a project. As adequate data becomes available, the estimated cost shall be revised and necessary adjustments made. Final adjustment shall be made with the appropriate funds for the fiscal year in which the advances or reimbursements are made. Except as otherwise provided by law, amounts advanced to management funds are available for obligation only during the fiscal year in which they are advanced.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 87–651, title II, § 207(a), Sept. 7, 1962, 76 Stat. 522.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 2209(a)<br>2209(b)<br>2209(c) | 5:172e(a), (b).<br>5:172e(c) (last sentence).<br>5:172e(c) (less last sentence).<br>5:172e(d). | July 3, 1942, ch. 484; restated Aug. 10, 1949, ch. 412, § 11 (16th through 19th pars.), 63 Stat. 588. |

In subsection (a), the second sentence is substituted for the second sentence of 5 U.S.C. 172e(a) and the first sentence (less last 21 words) of 5 U.S.C. 172e(b) which are omitted as unnecessary.

In subsection (c), the 13th through 33d words of 5 U.S.C. 172e(d) are omitted as surplusage.