---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2492"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2492"
heading: "Nonappropriated fund instrumentalities: contracts with other agencies and instrumentalities to provide and obtain goods and services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2492"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 147 — Commissaries and Exchanges and Other Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Activities"
  - "Subchapter III — Morale, Welfare, and Recreation Programs and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities"
---

# §2492. Nonappropriated fund instrumentalities: contracts with other agencies and instrumentalities to provide and obtain goods and services


An [agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3) or instrumentality of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense that supports the operation of the exchange system, or the operation of a morale, welfare, and recreation system, of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense may enter into a contract or other agreement with another element of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense or with another Federal [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6), [agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3), or instrumentality—

- (1) to provide or obtain goods and services beneficial to the efficient management and operation of the exchange system or that morale, welfare, and recreation system; or
- (2) to provide or obtain food services beneficial to the efficient management and operation of the dining [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) on [military installations](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-4) offering food services to members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title III, § 341(a)(1), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2488, § 2482a; renumbered § 2492, Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title VI, § 651(c)(3), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1972; amended Pub. L. 113–291, div. A, title VI, § 632, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3405.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2492 was renumbered section 2489 of this title.

### Amendments

2014—Pub. L. 113–291 substituted “Federal department, agency, or instrumentality—” for “Federal department, agency, or instrumentality to provide or obtain goods and services beneficial to the efficient management and operation of the exchange system or that morale, welfare, and recreation system.” and added pars. (1) and (2).

2004—Pub. L. 108–375 renumbered section 2482a of this title as this section.