---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2631a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2631a"
heading: "Contingency planning: sealift and related intermodal transportation requirements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2631a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 157 — Transportation"
---

# §2631a. Contingency planning: sealift and related intermodal transportation requirements

- (a) **Consideration of Private Capabilities.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall ensure that all studies and reports of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense, and all actions taken in the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense, concerning sealift and related intermodal transportation requirements take into consideration the full [range](/usc/10/101.md?p=f-1) of the transportation and distribution capabilities that are available from operators of privately owned [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) flag merchant vessels.
- (b) **Private Capacities Presentations.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) shall afford each operator of a vessel referred to in [subsection (a)](#a), not less often than annually, an opportunity to present to the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense information on its port-to-port and intermodal transportation capacities.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title XI, § 1173(a), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1767.)