---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 9512"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "9512"
heading: "Civil Reserve Air Fleet contracts: payment rate"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/9512"
units:
  - "Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Procurement"
  - "Chapter 961 — Civil Reserve Air Fleet"
---

# §9512. Civil Reserve Air Fleet contracts: payment rate

- (a) **Authority.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/9511.md?p=10) shall determine a fair and reasonable [rate](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) of payment for airlift services provided to the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense by air carriers who are participants in the [Civil Reserve Air Fleet program](/usc/10/9511.md?p=12).
- (b) **Regulations.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/9511.md?p=10) shall prescribe regulations for purposes of [subsection (a)](#a). The [Secretary](/usc/10/9511.md?p=10) may exclude from the applicability of those regulations any airlift services contract made through the use of competitive procedures.
- (c) **Commitment of Aircraft as a Business Factor.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/9511.md?p=10) may, in determining the quantity of business to be received under an airlift services contract for which the [rate](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) of payment is determined in accordance with [subsection (a)](#a), use as a factor the relative amount of airlift capability committed by each air carrier to the [Civil Reserve Air Fleet](/usc/10/9511.md?p=6).
- (d) **Inapplicable Provisions of Law.—** An airlift services contract for which the [rate](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) of payment is determined in accordance with [subsection (a)](#a) shall not be subject to the provisions of [chapter 271](/usc/10/chstA/ptV/sptD/ch271.md) of this title or to the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of [section 1502 of title 41](/usc/41/1502.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title III, § 366(a), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1380, § 9511a; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title XVIII, § 1831(j)(6), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4217; renumbered § 9512 and amended Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title X, § 1083(a)(2)(A), (c)(1)(A), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1922, 1923.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 9512 was renumbered section 9513 of this title.

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 117–81 renumbered section 9511a of this title as this section and substituted “Secretary” for “Secretary of Defense” in subsecs. (a) and (b).

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “chapter 271” for “section 2306a”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2021 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 116–283 effective Jan. 1, 2022, with additional provisions for delayed implementation and applicability of existing law, see section 1801(d)(1) of Pub. L. 116–283, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

### Initial Regulations

Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title III, § 366(c), Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1381, provided that: “Regulations shall be prescribed under section 9511a(b) of title 10, United States Code [now 10 U.S.C. 9512(b)], as added by subsection (a), not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 31, 2011].”