SECTION O - MISCELLANEOUS ACTS

60. Eligibility for Award of Contract Restricted to Citizens; Employment of Aliens. Only citizens of the United States, and corporations of which not less than three-fourths of the capital stock is owned by citizens of the United States, and of which the members of the boards of directors are citizens of the United States, and having manufacturing plants located within the continental limits of the United States shall be eligible to be awarded any contract under this section to furnish or construct aircraft, aircraft parts, or aeronautical accessories for the United States Government, except that a domestic corporation whose stock shall be listed on a stock exchange shall not be barred by the provisions of this section unless and until foreign ownership or control of a majority of its stock shall be known to the Secretary of War or the Secretary of the Navy, as the case may be, and no aliens employed by a contractor for furnishing or constructing aircraft, or aircraft parts, or aeronautical accessories for the United States shall be permitted to have access to the plans or specifications or the work under construction or to participate in the contract trials without the written consent beforehand of the Secretary of the Department concerned. (See section 10(j), Act of July 2, 1926, Air Corps Act (44 Stat. 787), as amended; 10 U.S.C. 310(j) .)

61. Diplomatic Codes and Correspondence. Whoever, by virtue of his employment by the United States, obtains from another or has or has had custody of or access to any official diplomatic code or any matter prepared in any such code, or which purports to have been prepared in any such code, and without authorization or competent authority, willfully publishes or furnishes to another any such code or matter, or any matter which was obtained while in the process of transmission between any foreign government and its diplomatic mission in the United States, shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. (See Act of June 25, 1948 (62 Stat. 743); 18 U.S.C. 952.)

62. Special Provisions Regarding Military Secrets:

a. A license will not be issued by the Secretary of State authorizing the exportation of any arms, ammunition, or implements of war considered by the Secretary of the Army or by the Secretary of the Navy as instruments or appliances included among the articles covered by those terms as used in sections 1 and 2, title I, of the Act of June 15, 1917 (40 Stat. 217-218; 50 U.S.C. 31-32; 50 U.S.C. 31 now covered by 18 U.S.C. 793, and 50 U.S.C. 32 by 18 U.S.C. 794) if, in their opinion, they involve military secrets of interest to the national defense. The articles which may be so considered are articles falling within one of the following categories:

(1) Articles, the whole or any features of which have been or are being developed or manufactured by or for the Department of the Army or the Navy Department or with the participation of either of those Departments; and

(2) Articles, the whole or any features of which have been used by the Department of the Army or the Navy Department or which either Department has contracted to procure.

b. Included among articles developed by or for the Department of the Army or the Navy Department are articles the development of which has been contracted for by either of those Departments, or which have been developed in accordance with Army or Navy specifications and submitted to either Department for evaluation for procurement.

c. Prospective exporters of articles falling within the categories set out above which may possibly involve military secrets of interest to the national defense, or persons desirous of transmitting abroad information concerning such articles, should communicate with the Secretary of State in advance of the proposed transaction in order that he may be in a position to ascertain for the interested person whether or not military secrets are, in fact, involved therein. The articles upon which a determination is requested should be designated clearly and specifically, the type and model designations being included. Where applicable, Army or Navy drawing numbers should be given, or detailed plans and specifications submitted.

(See sections 78.1-78.3, Ch. I, Title 22, Code of Federal Regulations.)

63. Withholding Certain Patents in the Interest of National Security:

a. Whenever publication or disclosure by the grant of a patent on an invention in which the Government has a property interest might, in the opinion of the head of the interested Government agency, be detrimental to the national security, the Commissioner (of Patents) upon being so notified shall order that the invention be kept secret and shall withhold the grant of a patent therefor under the conditions set forth hereinafter.

b. Whenever the publication or disclosure of an invention by the granting of a patent, in which the Government does not have a property interest, might, in the opinion of the Commissioner be detrimental to the national security, he shall make the application for patent in which such invention is disclosed available for inspection to the Atomic Energy Commission, the Secretary of Defense, and the chief officer of any other department or agency of the Government designated by the President as a defense agency for the United States.

c. Each individual to whom the application is disclosed shall sign a dated acknowledgment thereof, which acknowledgment shall be entered in the file of the application. If, in the opinion of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Secretary of a Defense Department, or the chief officer of another department or agency so designated, the publication or disclosure of the invention by the granting of a patent therefor would be detrimental to the national security, the Atomic Energy Commission, the Secretary of a Defense Department, or such other chief officer shall notify the Commissioner and the Commissioner shall order that the invention be kept secret and shall withhold the grant of a patent for such period as the national interest requires, and notify the applicant thereof. Upon proper showing by the head of the department or agency who caused the secrecy order to be issued that the examination of the application might jeopardize the national interest, the Commissioner shall thereupon maintain the application in a sealed condition and notify the applicant thereof. The owner of an application which has been placed under a secrecy order shall have a right to appeal from the order to the Secretary of Commerce under rules prescribed by him.

d. An invention shall not be ordered kept secret and the grant of a patent withheld for a period of not more than one year. The Commissioner shall renew the order at the end thereof, or at the end of any renewal period, for additional periods of one year upon notification by the head of the department or the chief officer of the agency who caused the order to be issued that an affirmative determination has been made that the national interest continues so to require. An order in effect, or issued, during a time when the United States is at war, shall remain in effect for the duration of hostilities and one year following cessation of hostilities. An order in effect, or issued, during a national emergency declared by the President shall remain in effect for the duration of the national emergency and six months thereafter. The Commissioner may rescind any order upon notification by the heads of the departments and the chief officers of the agencies who caused the order to be issued that the publication or disclosure of the invention is no longer deemed detrimental to the national security.

(See Act: of July 19, 1952 (66 Stat. 805); 35 U.S.C. 181.)

64. Patents and Inventions Pertaining to Military Utilization of Atomic Energy:

a. No patent shall hereafter be granted for any invention or discovery which is useful solely in the utilization of special nuclear material or atomic energy in an atomic weapon. Any patent granted for any such invention or discovery is hereby revoked, and just compensation shall be made therefor.

b. No patent hereafter granted shall confer any rights with respect to any invention or discovery to the extent that such invention or discovery is used in the utilization of special nuclear material or atomic energy in atomic weapons. Any rights conferred by any patent heretofore granted for any invention or discovery are hereby revoked to the extent that such invention or discovery is so used, and just compensation shall be made therefor.

c. Any person who has made or hereafter makes any invention or discovery useful (1) in the production or utilization of special nuclear material or atomic energy; (2) in the utilization of special nuclear material in an atomic weapon; or (3) in the utilization of atomic energy in an atomic weapon, shall file with the Commission a report containing a complete description thereof unless such invention or discovery is described in an application for a patent filed with the Commissioner of Patents by such person within the time required for the filing of such report. The report covering any such invention or discovery shall be filed on or before whichever of the following is the later; either the ninetieth day after completion of such invention or discovery; or the ninetieth day after such person first discovers or first has reason to believe that such invention or discovery is useful in such production or utilization.

d. The Commissioner of Patents shall notify the Commission of all applications for patents heretofore or hereafter filed which, in his opinion, disclose inventions or discoveries required to he reported under paragraph c, and shall provide the Commission access to all such applications.

(Section 151 Atomic Energy Act of 1954, Act of August 30, 1954 (68 Stat. 943), Public Law 703 - 83rd Congress.)

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE:

OFFICIAL: N. F. TWINING
Chief of Staff, United States Air Force

E. E TORO
Colonel
, USAF
Air Adjutant General

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