---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6134"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6134"
heading: "Incorporation of integrated surety architecture"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6134"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part VI — Elements of Department of Defense and Other Matters"
  - "Subpart B — Atomic Energy Defense"
  - "Chapter 602 — Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Matters"
  - "Subchapter I — Stockpile Stewardship and Weapons Production"
---

# §6134. Incorporation of integrated surety architecture

- (a) **Shipments.—**
  - (1) The [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) shall ensure that shipments described in [paragraph (2)](#a-2) incorporate surety technologies relating to transportation and shipping developed by the Integrated Surety Architecture [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) of the Administration.
  - (2) A shipment described in this paragraph is an over-the-road shipment of the Administration that involves any nuclear weapon planned to be in the active stockpile after 2025.
- (b) **Certain Programs.—**
  - (1) The [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3), in coordination with the Chairman of the Nuclear Weapons Council, shall ensure that each [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) described in [paragraph (2)](#b-2) incorporates integrated designs compatible with the Integrated Surety Architecture [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1).
  - (2) A [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) described in this subsection is a [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) of the Administration that is a warhead development [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1), a life extension [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1), or a warhead major alteration [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1).
- (c) **Determination.—**
  - (1) If, on a case-by-case basis, the [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) determines that a shipment under [subsection (a)](#a) will not incorporate some or all of the surety technologies described in such subsection, or that a [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) under [subsection (b)](#b) will not incorporate some or all of the integrated designs described in such subsection, the [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) shall submit such determination to the [congressional defense committees](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-16), including the results of an analysis conducted pursuant to [paragraph (2)](#c-2).
  - (2) Each determination made under [paragraph (1)](#c-1) shall be based on a documented, system risk analysis that considers security risk reduction, operational impacts, and technical risk.
- (d) **Termination.—** The requirements of subsections [(a)](#a) and [(b)](#b) shall terminate on December 31, 2029.

## Source credit

(Added and amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), (d)(2)(B), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1369, 1462.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 2538d of Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(b)(1).

### Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60, § 3111(d)(2)(B), realigned margins.