---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 236"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "236"
heading: "Personal protection equipment procurement: display of budget information"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/236"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 9 — Defense Budget Matters"
---

# §236. Personal protection equipment procurement: display of budget information

- (a) **Budget Justification Display.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall submit to Congress, as a part of the defense budget materials for each fiscal year after fiscal year 2014, a consolidated budget justification display that covers all [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) and activities associated with the [procurement](/usc/10/3011.md?p=1) of personal protection equipment during the period covered by the future-years defense [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) submitted in that fiscal year under section 221.
- (b) **Requirements for Budget Display.—** The consolidated budget justification display under [subsection (a)](#a) for a fiscal year shall include the following:
  - (1) The amount for personal protection equipment included in both the base budget of the President and any overseas [contingency operations](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-13) budget of the President.
  - (2) A brief description of each category of personal protection equipment for each [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) planned to be procured and developed.
  - (3) For each category planned to be procured using funds made available for operation and maintenance (whether under the base budget or any overseas [contingency operations](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-13) budget)—
    - (A) the relevant appropriations account, budget activity, and subactivity group for the category; and
    - (B) the funding profile for the fiscal year as requested, including cost and quantities, and an estimate of projected investments or [procurements](/usc/10/3011.md?p=1) for each of the subsequent five fiscal years.
  - (4) For each category planned to be developed using funds made available for research, development, test, and evaluation (whether under the base budget or any overseas [contingency operations](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-13) budget)—
    - (A) the relevant appropriations account, [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1), project or activity; [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) element number, and line number; and
    - (B) the funding profile for the fiscal year as requested and an estimate of projected investments for each of the subsequent five fiscal years.
- (c) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) The terms “budget” and “defense budget materials” have the meaning given those terms in [section 234 of this title](/usc/10/234.md).
  - (2) The term “category of personal protection equipment” means the following:
    - (A) Body armor [components](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13).
    - (B) Combat helmets.
    - (C) Combat protective eyewear.
    - (D) Other items as determined appropriate by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 113–66, div. A, title I, § 141(a), Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 696.)