---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 3708"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "3708"
heading: "Right to examine contractor records"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/3708"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part V — Acquisition"
  - "Subpart D — General Contracting Provisions"
  - "Chapter 271 — Truthful Cost or Pricing Data (truth in Negotiations)"
---

# §3708. Right to examine contractor records


For the purpose of evaluating the accuracy, completeness, and currency of [cost or pricing data](/usc/10/3701.md?p=1) required to be submitted by this chapter, the [head of an agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=2) shall have the authority provided by [section 3841(b)(2) of this title](/usc/10/3841.md?p=b-2).


## Source credit

(Added and amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title XVIII, § 1831(a), (i), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4209, 4216.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

The text of subsec. (g) of section 2306a of this title, which was transferred to this section and amended by Pub. L. 116–283, § 1831(i), was based on Pub. L. 103–355, title I, § 1205, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3276.

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283, § 1831(i), transferred subsec. (g) of section 2306a of this title to this section, struck out subsec. (g) designation and heading “Right of United States To Examine Contractor Records” at beginning, and substituted “this chapter” for “this section” and “section 3841(b)(2)” for “section 2313(a)(2)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### 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.