---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2422"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2422"
heading: "Bakery and dairy products: procurement outside the United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2422"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 143 — Production by Military Agencies"
---

# §2422. Bakery and dairy products: procurement outside the United States

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may authorize any element of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense that procures bakery and dairy products for use by the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) outside the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) to procure any products described in [subsection (b)](#b) through the use of procedures other than competitive procedures.
- (b) The products referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) are bakery or dairy products produced by the Army and Air Force Exchange Service in a [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) outside the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) that began operating before July 1, 1986.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title III, § 312(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3851.)