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DFARS 252.204-7018 Prohibition on the Acquisition of Covered Defense Telecommunications Equipment or Services

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

All subcontracts and instruments, including commercial

Form
substance
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-09 · edition JAN 2023 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

  1. Something you fill in and send back

    Hours, once you know which one is missing.

    • A report — contract and order numbers, supplier, brand, model number, item description and whatever mitigation exists — followed within 30 business days by what else was done to mitigate and to prevent it recurring

      Owed when you identify, or are notified of, covered defense telecommunications equipment or services in what you supply or use — the first report is due within three business days of that

      DFARS 252.204-7018(d)

When it is used

All DoD contracts, including COTS, no threshold.

Read closely

Paragraph (b) is the prohibition itself and paragraph (c) the procedures behind it; paragraph (e) carries the substance, including itself, into all subcontracts and other instruments, commercial ones included. There is no threshold and no off-the-shelf exception.

The 15 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 138143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 350155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 386233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 661166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 240369Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-002 — U.S. Government FFP or T&M Order for Commercial Products and ServicesNorthrop Grummanline 2395166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2343168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2441255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1257243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2165122GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-095 — FFP Purchase Orders for Commercial/COTS Products or Services in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 1115240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2190106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1560273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1132107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 553

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.204-7018, codified text read at DFARS Change 5/7/2026, prescribed at 204.2105(c) with designation (JAN 2023); RFO class deviation 2026-O0025 (DFARS part 240, effective 2026-02-01) prints the same designation but prescribes it at 240.270-6(c), so the clause is unchanged and the prescription has moved into the new part 240 (verified 2026-08-09)

This is research, not legal advice. It states what the regulation says about this clause and cites the paragraph behind it. It does not rule on your order, and it does not rule on whether a prime's markings are correct.