---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 500c"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "500c"
heading: "Annual assessment of budget with respect to electromagnetic spectrum operations capabilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/500c"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 25 — Electromagnetic Warfare"
---

# §500c. Annual assessment of budget with respect to electromagnetic spectrum operations capabilities


At the same time as the President submits to Congress the budget of the President under [section 1105(a) of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md?p=a) for each of fiscal years 2025 through 2029, the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall submit to the [congressional defense committees](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-16) an assessment by the Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Executive Committee as to whether sufficient funds are requested in such budget for anticipated activities in such fiscal year for each of the following:

- (1) The development of an electromagnetic battle management capability for joint electromagnetic spectrum operations.
- (2) The establishment and operation of associated joint electromagnetic spectrum operations cells.
- (3) The development of a capability for modeling and simulating multi-domain joint electromagnetic spectrum operations to—
  - (A) assess the ability of the joint force to conduct such operations in support of the operational plans of the combatant commands; and
  - (B) inform improvements to such operations.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XVI, § 1682(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 615, § 503; renumbered § 500c and amended Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title XVI, § 1653, title XVII, § 1701(a)(10), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2201, 2203.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2024—Pub. L. 118–159, § 1701(a)(10), renumbered section 503 of this title, relating to the annual assessment of the budget with respect to electromagnetic spectrum operations capabilities, as this section.

Par. (3). Pub. L. 118–159, § 1653, added par. (3).