---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8692"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8692"
heading: "Ford-class aircraft carriers: cost limitation baselines"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8692"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part IV — General Administration"
  - "Chapter 863 — Naval Vessels"
---

# §8692. Ford-class aircraft carriers: cost limitation baselines

- (a) **Limitation.—** The total amounts obligated or expended from funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available for Shipbuilding and Conversion, [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1), or for any other procurement account, may not exceed the following amounts for the following aircraft carriers:
  - (1) $13,224,000,000 for the construction of the aircraft carrier designated CVN–78.
  - (2) $11,398,000,000 for the construction of the aircraft carrier designated CVN–79.
  - (3) $12,202,000,000 for the construction of the aircraft carrier designated CVN–80.
  - (4) $12,451,000,000 for the construction of the aircraft carrier designated CVN–81.
- (b) **Exclusion of Battle and Interim Spares From Cost Limitation.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) shall exclude from the determination of the amounts set forth in [subsection (a)](#a) the costs of the following items:
  - (1) CVN–78 class battle spares.
  - (2) Interim spares.
  - (3) Increases attributable to economic inflation after December 1, 2018, not otherwise included in the amounts listed in [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c) **Written Notice and Briefing on Change in Amount.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) may adjust an amount listed in [subsection (a)](#a) not fewer than 15 days after submitting written notice and providing a briefing to the [congressional defense committees](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-16), each of which shall include the amount and rationale of any change and the resulting amount after such change.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title I, § 121(a), Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1233.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Another section 8692 was renumbered section 8693 of this title.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 8692, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 538, provided qualifications to receive a rating of pilot in time of peace, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 92–168, § 3(1), Nov. 24, 1971, 85 Stat. 489. See section 2003 of this title.