---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 995"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "995"
heading: "Accountability for contractors using military working dogs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/995"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 50 — Miscellaneous Command Responsibilities"
---

# §995. Accountability for contractors using military working dogs

- (a) **Annual Reporting Requirement for Contractors.—** Each covered contract shall specify that the contractor is required to submit to the Under [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense (Comptroller), on an annual basis for the duration of the covered contract, a report containing an identification of—
  - (1) the number of [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) working dogs that are in the possession of the covered contractor and located outside of the continental [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) in support of a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) operation, if any; and
  - (2) the primary location of any such [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) working dogs.
- (b) **Covered Contract Defined.—** In this section the term “covered contract” means a contract that the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense determines involves [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) working dogs.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–263, div. A, title III, § 382(a), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 2543.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 117–263, div. A, title III, § 382(b), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 2543, provided that: “Section 995 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply with respect to a contract entered into on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 23, 2022].”

### Deadline for Guidance

Pub. L. 117–263, div. A, title III, § 382(d), Dec. 23, 2022, 136 Stat. 2543, provided that: “Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 23, 2022], the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) shall issue the guidance on the annual reporting requirement under section 995 of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a).”