---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 1103"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "1103"
heading: "Role of Vice Commandant in major acquisition programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/1103"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Establishment, Powers, Duties, and Administration"
  - "Chapter 11 — Acquisitions"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §1103. Role of Vice Commandant in major acquisition programs


The Vice Commandant—

- (1) shall represent the [customer of a major acquisition program](/usc/14/1171.md?p=3) with regard to trade-offs made among cost, schedule, technical feasibility, and performance with respect to such program; and
- (2) shall advise the Commandant in decisions regarding the balancing of resources against priorities, and associated trade-offs referred to in [paragraph (1)](#1), on behalf of the [customer of a major acquisition program](/usc/14/1171.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title VIII, § 899(b)(1)(E), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2334, § 578; renumbered § 1103, Pub. L. 115–282, title I, § 108(b), Dec. 4, 2018, 132 Stat. 4208.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–282 renumbered section 578 of this title as this section.