---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 434"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "434"
heading: "Reservation of defenses and immunities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/434"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 21 — Department of Defense Intelligence Matters"
  - "Subchapter II — Intelligence Commercial Activities"
---

# §434. Reservation of defenses and immunities


The submission to judicial proceedings in a [State](/usc/10/4951.md?p=4) or other legal jurisdiction, in connection with a commercial activity undertaken pursuant to this subchapter, shall not constitute a waiver of the defenses and immunities of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 102–88, title V, § 504(a)(2), Aug. 14, 1991, 105 Stat. 439.)