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DFARS 252.223-7007 Safeguarding Sensitive Conventional Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(f): when the subcontract is (1) for development, production, or purchase of AA&E, or (2) when AA&E will be furnished to the sub as government property. In addition, (e): notify the DCSA field office within 10 days of award of a subcontract involving AA&E.

Form
substance — 'ensure that the requirements of this clause are included'
Reaches
all tiers ('all subcontracts, at every tier')

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-11 · edition NOV 2023 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. A program you have to be running

    You are either running it or you are not, and what the prime asks for is the date it started.

    • Physical security to DoD Manual 5100.76 for the listed arms, ammunition and explosives — approved storage, access control, inventory and controlled movement, as the statement of work specifies

      DFARS 252.223-7007(c)

  2. Something you write

    Days to weeks, and nobody outside your company has to agree to it.

    • A notice to the cognizant Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency field office, within 10 days of the award

      Owed when you award a subcontract that involves arms, ammunition or explosives

      DFARS 252.223-7007(e)

When it is used

Comes in when the contract involves sensitive arms, ammunition and explosives (AA&E) — the items listed by nomenclature/NSN in (b) — requiring physical security per DoD Manual 5100.76, to the extent the statement of work specifies. Flows down into all subcontracts, at any tier, when the sub develops/produces/purchases AA&E or receives AA&E as government property; and the contractor notifies DCSA within 10 days after award of a subcontract involving AA&E.

Read closely

The edition of the manual that governs is the one in effect on the date the solicitation was issued. (b) is the table naming the items by nomenclature, stock number and sensitivity category — a blank table leaves the scope open. (d) gives the security agency access at all reasonable times for surveys, inspections and investigations, and the magazine or vault behind (c) is spending that lands before the first delivery.

The 13 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 272143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 379155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 415233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 141960Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 83166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2445166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2384168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2475255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1273243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2182240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2439273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1147107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 645

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.223-7007. CODIFIED REGIME, read 2026-08-11 on the part-252 page at DFARS Change 5/7/2026: "As prescribed in 223.7203, use the following clause:" with designation (NOV 2023). RFO CLASS DEVIATION 2026-O0018 (DFARS part 223, effective February 1, 2026) CARRIES THIS CLAUSE AT THE SAME NUMBER: the memo prescribes it at 223.7203 and prints it (NOV 2023). So the two regimes AGREE here on number, prescription and designation, and an agreement read is recorded because the alternative is silence that a reader cannot tell from an unread deviation. TO RE-DERIVE THE DEVIATION HALF WITHOUT REDOING THE RESEARCH: fetch acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-23.pdf (593744 bytes, 22 pages, DARS Tracking Number 2026-O0018, "Effective February 1, 2026, contracting officers shall use"), run pdftotext -layout over it, and grep for 252.223-7007 — 2 occurrences on 2026-08-11, poppler pdftotext. Both regimes read against their primary sources on 2026-08-11, and the deviation half re-read a second time and the recipe above measured on 2026-08-11 (verified 2026-08-11)

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.