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[CITE: 10USC7522]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
            CHAPTER 645--PROCUREMENT OF SUPPLIES AND SERVICES
 
Sec. 7522. Contracts for research

    (a) The Secretary of the Navy and, by direction of the Secretary, 
the Chief of Naval Research and the chiefs of bureaus may, without 
advertising, make contracts or amendments or modifications of contracts 
for services and materials necessary to conduct research and to make or 
secure reports, tests, models, or apparatus. A contractor supplying such 
services or materials need not be required to furnish a bond.
    (b) This section does not authorize the use of the cost-plus-a-
percentage-of-cost system of contracting.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 464; Pub. L. 96-513, title V, 
Sec. 513(38), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2934; Pub. L. 97-258, 
Sec. 3(b)(9), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1064; Pub. L. 98-525, title XIV, 
Sec. 1405(56)(B), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2626; Pub. L. 103-355, title 
II, Sec. 2001(j)(2), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3303.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7522..................................  5 U.S.C. 475e.                       Au
g. 1, 1946, ch. 727, Sec.  6, 60
                                                                              S
tat. 780.
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    In subsection (a) reference to R.S. 3718, 3719, 3720, and 3722 (34 
U.S.C. 561, 562, 563, and 572) is omitted because these sections were 
expressly repealed by Sec. 11(a) of the Act of February 19, 1948, ch. 
65, 62 Stat. 25. The words ``without advertising'' are substituted for 
the reference to R.S. 3709 (41 U.S.C. 5) for brevity and clarity. The 
sentence ``A contractor supplying such services or materials need not be 
required to furnish a bond'' is substituted for the words ``without 
performance or other bonds'' for clarity, since the provision is 
interpreted as a discretionary authority in the Secretary to waive bond.
    In subsection (c) the words ``This section does not authorize'' are 
substituted for the words ``nothing in this section shall be construed 
to authorize''.


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 103-355 redesignated subsec. (c) as 
(b) and struck out former subsec. (b) which read as follows: 
``Subsections (a) and (b) of section 3324 of title 31 do not apply to 
advance, progress, or other payments made with respect to a contract 
under this section.''
    1984--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98-525 substituted ``Subsections (a) and 
(b) of section 3324 of title 31 do'' for ``Section 3324(a) and (b) of 
title 31 does''.
    1982--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97-258 substituted ``section 3324(a) and 
(b) of title 31'' for ``section 3648 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 
529)''.
    1980--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96-513 substituted ``Section 3648 of the 
Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529)'' for ``Section 529 of title 31''.


                    Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

    For effective date and applicability of amendment by Pub. L. 103-
355, see section 10001 of Pub. L. 103-355, set out as a note under 
section 251 of Title 41, Public Contracts.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 
701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96-513, set out as a note under section 101 of this 
title.
