---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 6136"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "6136"
heading: "Earned value management and technology readiness levels for life extension programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/6136"
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"
---

# §6136. Earned value management and technology readiness levels for life extension programs

- (a) **Review of Contractor Earned Value Management Systems.—** The [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) shall enter into an arrangement with an independent entity under which that entity shall—
  - (1) review and validate whether the earned value management systems of contractors of the Administration for life extension [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) meet the earned value management national standard; and
  - (2) conduct periodic surveillance reviews of such systems to ensure that such systems maintain compliance with that standard through [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) completion.
- (b) **Benchmarks for Technology Readiness Levels.—** The [Administrator](/usc/10/2700.md?p=3) shall—
  - (1) establish specific benchmarks for technology readiness levels of critical technologies for life extension [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) at key decision points; and
  - (2) ensure that critical technologies meet such benchmarks at such decision points.
- (c) **Applicability.—** This section shall apply to [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) that, as of January 1, 2021, have not entered phase 3 of the nuclear weapons acquisition process or phase 6.3 of a nuclear weapons life extension [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1).
- (d) **Definition.—** In this section, the term “earned value management national standard” means the most recent version of the EIA-748 Earned Value Management System Standard published by the National Defense Industrial Association.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 119–60, div. C, title XXXI, § 3111(a), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1371.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

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