---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 233a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "233a"
heading: "Annual report on force structure changes exhibit for the defense budget"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/233a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 9 — Defense Budget Matters"
---

# §233a. Annual report on force structure changes exhibit for the defense budget

- (a) **Annual Report.—** Not later than 10 days after the date on which the budget of the President for a fiscal year is submitted to Congress pursuant to [section 1105 of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall submit to the [congressional defense committees](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-16) a report on any [major weapon systems](/usc/10/4401.md?p=c-9) proposed to be divested, re-prioritized, or retired in such budget.
- (b) **Contents.—** Each report under [subsection (a)](#a) shall include the following:
  - (1) Identification of each [major weapon system](/usc/10/4401.md?p=c-9) the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense proposes to divest, re-prioritize, or retire in the period of five fiscal years following the date of the report.
  - (2) Budget line-item details related to each [major weapon system](/usc/10/4401.md?p=c-9) identified under [paragraph (1)](#b-1).
  - (3) For each proposed divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement, an explanation of—
    - (A) the timeline for the divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement, including any factors that may affect such timelines positively or negatively;
    - (B) any cost savings associated with the divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement;
    - (C) the rationale for the divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement, including a qualitative description of the risk associated with the divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement based on the most recent National Defense Strategy (as of the date of the report);
    - (D) any critical dependencies with other [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) efforts that might affect the timeline for such divestment, reprioritization, or retirement;
    - (E) the expected disposition of the weapon system after divestment, re-prioritization or retirement; and
    - (F) identification of the system or systems that are expected to satisfy the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) requirements that were fulfilled by the weapon system once the divestment, re-prioritization, or retirement of that weapon system is completed.
- (c) **Relationship to Other Reports.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall ensure that the report required under [subsection (a)](#a) is deconflicted with the report required under [section 222e of this title](/usc/10/222e.md).
- (d) **Major Weapon System Defined.—** In this section, the term “[major weapon system](/usc/10/4401.md?p=c-9)” has the meaning given that term in [section 101(a) of this title](/usc/10/101.md?p=a).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title I, § 151, Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 179; amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title VIII, § 811(c)(2)(B), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 950.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2025—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 119–60 substituted “section 101(a)” for “section 3455(f)”.