Executive Order 13294: Regulations Relating to Hazardous Duty Incentive Pay, Aviation Career Incentive Pay, and Submarine Duty Incentive Pay
President: George W. Bush
Updated authorities and regulations governing hazardous-duty, aviation-career and submarine-duty incentive pay for eligible uniformed personnel.
Status: In effect.
Is Executive Order 13294 still in effect? Yes. Active within amended pay regulations.
What does Executive Order 13294 do?
The order assigned these duties: Department of Defense, military departments and the Office of Personnel Management — Updated authorities and regulations governing hazardous-duty, aviation-career and submarine-duty incentive pay for eligible uniformed personnel.
Checked the hazardous-duty, aviation-career and submarine-duty pay amendments against the signed order and current statutory/pay authorities. The guide treats these as amendments to existing pay rules, not a new allowance entitlement for everyone.
Before and after
Before the order
Statutes authorized incentive pays, but existing executive-order regulations needed updating for current military occupations and administration.
After the order
Defense and the services applied the revised eligibility rules through pay regulations and personnel systems, later amended by statute and regulation.
Who had to do what
| Agency / office | Action | Timing / position |
|---|---|---|
| Department of Defense, military departments and the Office of Personnel Management | Updated authorities and regulations governing hazardous-duty, aviation-career and submarine-duty incentive pay for eligible uniformed personnel. | Immediate; pay eligibility and rates implemented through Defense regulations |
What happened next
EO 13294 signed.
2003–present — Defense regulations and annual authorizations continued to amend the incentive-pay framework.
Legal and source detail
How it works legally
The order cannot expand incentive pay beyond congressional authorization or appropriations. Individual eligibility remains governed by service regulations and administrative review procedures.
Sources by type
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Primary and official sources
Orders, laws, court records and official implementation material.
- GovInfo — official executive-order record (opens in a new tab) Official record
How we checked this
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