---
kind: "unit"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
key: "stA/ptI/ch2"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 2"
heading: "Department of Defense"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/stA-ptI-ch2"
sections_count: 18
---

# Chapter 2 — Department of Defense

Title 10 — Armed Forces › Subtitle A — General Military Law › Part I — Organization and General Military Powers

## Sections

- [§111. Executive department](/usc/10/111.md)
- [§112. Department of Defense: seal](/usc/10/112.md)
- [§113. Secretary of Defense](/usc/10/113.md)
- [§113a. Transmission of annual defense authorization request](/usc/10/113a.md)
- [§114. Annual authorization of appropriations](/usc/10/114.md)
- [§114a. Renumbered § 221](/usc/10/114a.md)
- [§115. Personnel strengths: requirement for annual authorization](/usc/10/115.md)
- [§115a. Annual defense manpower profile report and related reports](/usc/10/115a.md)
- [§115b. Repealed.](/usc/10/115b.md)
- [§116. Annual operations and maintenance report](/usc/10/116.md)
- [§117. Readiness reporting system](/usc/10/117.md)
- [§118. Materiel readiness metrics and materiel readiness objectives for major weapon systems](/usc/10/118.md)
- [§118a. Quadrennial quality of life review](/usc/10/118a.md)
- [§118b. National Defense Sustainment and Logistics Review](/usc/10/118b.md)
- [§118c. National Defense Science and Technology Strategy](/usc/10/118c.md)
- [§119. Special access programs: congressional oversight](/usc/10/119.md)
- [§119a. Programs managed under alternative compensatory control measures: congressional oversight](/usc/10/119a.md)
- [§120. Department of Defense executive aircraft controlled by Secretaries of military departments](/usc/10/120.md)