---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 3223"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "3223"
heading: "Director: review of cost estimates, cost analyses, and records of the military departments and Defense Agencies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/3223"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part V — Acquisition"
  - "Subpart B — Acquisition Planning"
  - "Chapter 222 — Independent Cost Estimation and Cost Analysis"
---

# §3223. Director: review of cost estimates, cost analyses, and records of the military departments and Defense Agencies


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall ensure that the Director of Cost Assessment and [Program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) Evaluation—

- (1) promptly receives the results of all cost estimates and cost analyses conducted by the [military departments](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-8) and [Defense Agencies](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-11), and all studies conducted by the [military departments](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-8) and [Defense Agencies](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-11) in connection with such cost estimates and cost analyses, for [major defense acquisition programs](/usc/10/4201.md?p=a) and major subprograms of the [military departments](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-8) and [Defense Agencies](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-11); and
- (2) has timely access to any [records](/usc/10/801.md?p=14) and data in the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense (including the [records](/usc/10/801.md?p=14) and data of each [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) and [Defense Agency](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-11) and including classified and proprietary information) that the Director considers necessary to review in order to carry out any duties under this chapter.

## Source credit

(Added and amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title XVIII, § 1812(a), (d), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4174, 4175; Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title XVII, § 1701(c)(2), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 2136.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

The text of subsec. (c) of section 2334 of this title, which was transferred to this section and amended by Pub. L. 116–283, § 1812(d), was based on Pub. L. 111–23, title I, § 101(b)(1), May 22, 2009, 123 Stat. 1706; Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title VIII, § 842(a)(3), (b)(2), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2288, 2289.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3223, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 176, related to authorized strength of Army Reserve in warrant officers, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, §§ 1662(a)(3), 1691, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2988, 3026, effective Dec. 1, 1994. See section 12008 of this title.

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283, § 1812(d), transferred subsec. (c) of section 2334 of this title to this section and struck out subsec. (c) designation and heading “Review of Cost Estimates, Cost Analyses, and Records of the Military Departments and Defense Agencies” at beginning.

Par. (2). Pub. L. 117–81 substituted “under this chapter” for “under this section”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2021 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 117–81 to take effect immediately after the amendments made by title XVIII of Pub. L. 116–283 have taken effect, see section 1701(a)(3) of Pub. L. 117–81, set out in a note preceding section 3001 of this title and Effective Date note below.

### Effective Date

Section and amendment by Pub. L. 116–283 effective Jan. 1, 2022, with additional provisions for delayed implementation and applicability of existing law, see section 1801(d) of Pub. L. 116–283, set out as an Effective Date of 2021 Amendment note preceding section 3001 of this title.