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Authority to use incremental funding for long lead-time components for Virginia class submarines

Division A · Title I: Procurement · Subtitle C: Navy Programs

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The Navy is allowed to use incremental funding, which means paying for parts over time, when buying long lead-time components for Virginia class submarines. This change updates a previous law to clarify that contracts for these parts can be funded in stages.

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Section Text · Sec. 122.
(1)

by redesignating subsections (b) through (d) as subsections (c) through (e), respectively; and

(2)

by inserting after subsection (a) the following:

(b) Authority to use incremental funding

In exercising the authority under subsection (a), the Secretary of the Navy may enter into incrementally funded contracts for the procurement of covered components that are long lead-time items.