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[CITE: 10USC2227]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
                 CHAPTER 131--PLANNING AND COORDINATION
 
Sec. 2227. Electronic submission and processing of claims for 
        contract payments
        
    (a) Submission of Claims.--The Secretary of Defense shall require 
that any claim for payment under a Department of Defense contract shall 
be submitted to the Department of Defense in electronic form.
    (b) Processing.--A contracting officer, contract administrator, 
certifying official, or other officer or employee of the Department of 
Defense who receives a claim for payment in electronic form in 
accordance with subsection (a) and is required to transmit the claim to 
any other officer or employee of the Department of Defense for 
processing under procedures of the department shall transmit the claim 
and any additional documentation necessary to support the determination 
and payment of the claim to such other officer or employee 
electronically.
    (c) Waiver Authority.--If the Secretary of Defense determines that 
the requirement for using electronic means for submitting claims under 
subsection (a), or for transmitting claims and supporting documentation 
under subsection (b), is unduly burdensome in any category of cases, the 
Secretary may exempt the cases in that category from the application of 
the requirement.
    (d) Implementation of Requirements.--In implementing subsections (a) 
and (b), the Secretary of Defense shall provide for the following:
        (1) Policies, requirements, and procedures for using electronic 
    means for the submission of claims for payment to the Department of 
    Defense and for the transmission, between Department of Defense 
    officials, of claims for payment received in electronic form, 
    together with supporting documentation (such as receiving reports, 
    contracts and contract modifications, and required certifications).
        (2) The format in which information can be accepted by the 
    corporate database of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service.
        (3) The requirements to be included in contracts regarding the 
    electronic submission of claims for payment by contractors.

    (e) Claim for Payment Defined.--In this section, the term ``claim 
for payment'' means an invoice or any other demand or request for 
payment.

(Added Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title X, Sec. 1008(a)(1)], 
Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-249.)


                             Effective Date

    Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title X, Sec. 1008(c)], Oct. 30, 
2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-250, provided that:
    ``(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of Defense shall apply 
section 2227 of title 10, United States Code (as added by subsection 
(a)), with respect to contracts for which solicitations of offers are 
issued after June 30, 2001.
    ``(2)(A) The Secretary may delay the implementation of section 2227 
to a date after June 30, 2001, upon a finding that it is impracticable 
to implement that section until that later date. In no event, however, 
may the implementation be delayed to a date after October 1, 2002.
    ``(B) Upon determining to delay the implementation of such section 
2227 to a later date under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall 
promptly publish a notice of the delay in the Federal Register. The 
notice shall include a specification of the later date on which the 
implementation of that section is to begin. Not later than 30 days 
before the later implementation date, the Secretary shall publish in the 
Federal Register another notice that such section is being implemented 
beginning on that date.''


                           Implementation Plan

    Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title X, Sec. 1008(b)], Oct. 30, 
2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-250, provided that: ``Not later than March 
30, 2001, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on 
Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a plan for 
the implementation of the requirements imposed under section 2227 of 
title 10, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)). The plan 
shall provide for each of the matters specified in subsection (d) of 
that section.''
