---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8679a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8679a"
heading: "Contracting with shipyards controlled by a foreign adversary country: prohibition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8679a"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part IV — General Administration"
  - "Chapter 863 — Naval Vessels"
---

# §8679a. Contracting with shipyards controlled by a foreign adversary country: prohibition


The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of Defense may not enter into any contract or other agreement with a shipyard determined by the [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of Defense to be under the ownership, control, or influence of a covered nation, as defined in [section 4872(f) of this title](/usc/10/4872.md?p=f).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–159, div. A, title X, § 1025, Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2055; amended Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title XVII, § 1701(a)(36), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1209.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2025—Pub. L. 119–60 substituted “a covered nation, as defined in section 4872(f) of this title” for “a foreign adversary country (as defined in section 4872(d)(2) of title 10, United States Code)” in text.