---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2863"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2863"
heading: "Payment of contractor claims"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2863"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 169 — Military Construction and Military Family Housing"
  - "Subchapter III — Administration of Military Construction and Military Family Housing"
---

# §2863. Payment of contractor claims


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) may [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) meritorious contractor claims that arise under [military construction](/usc/10/2801.md?p=a) contracts or family housing contracts. The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense, with respect to a [Defense Agency](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-11), or the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) may use for such purpose any unobligated funds appropriated to such [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) and available for [military construction](/usc/10/2801.md?p=a) or family housing construction, as the case may be.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–180, div. B, subdiv. 3, title I, § 2303(a), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1215.)