Title 10
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Title 10
Title 10
GENERAL POWERS AND FUNCTIONS
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Regulations
Official registers
Public availability of Department of Defense reports required by law
Authority to suspend officer personnel laws during war or national emergency
Suspension of end-strength and other strength limitations in time of war or national emergency
Forces stationed abroad: limitation on number
Detection and monitoring of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs: Department of Defense to be lead agency
Functions, powers, and duties: transfer, reassignment, consolidation, or abolition
Reform: improvement of efficacy and efficiency
Transfer of funds and employees
Emergency and extraordinary expenses
Operations for which funds are not provided in advance: funding mechanisms
Department of Defense rewards program
Purchase of weapons overseas: force protection
Support of special operations for irregular warfare
Support of special operations to combat terrorism
Expenditure of funds for clandestine activities that support operational preparation of the environment and non-conventional assisted recovery capabilities
Control and physical protection of special nuclear material: limitation on dissemination of unclassified information
Civilian personnel management
General policy for total force management
Authority to procure personal services
Medical personnel: limitations on reductions
Disclosure to litigation support contractors
Authority to withhold from public disclosure certain technical data
Department of Defense support for funerals and memorial events for Members and former Members of Congress
Personnel in overseas, sensitive, or routinely deployable units: nondisclosure of personally identifying information
Nondisclosure of information: certain sensitive information of foreign governments and international organizations
Treatment under Freedom of Information Act of certain confidential information shared with State and local personnel
Treatment under Freedom of Information Act of certain critical infrastructure security information
Notification requirements for sensitive military operations
Protection of certain facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft