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DFARS 252.225-7043 Antiterrorism/Force Protection for Defense Contractors Outside the United States

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

A self-executing (b) obligation on subcontractors; there is no lettered insertion mandate — a matrix citing this clause's 'flow-down paragraph' is making it up

Form
substance — there is no insertion paragraph; (b) binds 'the Contractor and its subcontractors' directly, and the prime can only comply by flowing the substance down
Reaches
subcontractors performing or traveling outside the US; (c) exception for foreign governments, their representatives, and foreign state-owned enterprises

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition JUN 2015 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

3 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. A state you have to be in, in a government system2

    The record has to be posted before the prime can see it, and posting is not the same day as being ready.

    • Your company affiliated with the Overseas Security Advisory Council

      Owed where the contractor or subcontractor performing outside the United States is a US entity

      DFARS 252.225-7043(b)(1)
    • Each of your US nationals registered with the US embassy

      Owed for personnel who are US nationals; third country nationals comply with their own embassy's security requirements instead

      DFARS 252.225-7043(b)(2)

  2. Something you write

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

    • Antiterrorism and force protection awareness information put in front of the people going, comparable to what the Department of Defense provides its own personnel and their families

      DFARS 252.225-7043(b)(3)

When it is used

Contracts performed outside the US (the 50 states, DC, and outlying areas), including FAR part 12, per prescription 225.372-2; no dollar threshold. The (b) obligations reach anyone performing OR traveling outside the US under the contract.

Read closely

(b)(4) is obtain-and-comply rather than produce — the guidance is the Department of Defense's own and (d) is the fill-in that says where it comes from — so it carries no row of its own. There is no insertion paragraph to point at either: (b) reaches the contractor and its subcontractors directly, so the obligations sit on whoever's people perform or travel outside the United States. (c) excepts foreign governments, their representatives, and foreign corporations wholly owned by them.

The 12 templates that name it, with the line
143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 403155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 438233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 1506166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2484166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2421168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2512255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1294243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2267240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2512273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1178107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 801178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1059

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.225-7043 and 225.372-2 (verified 2026-08-04)

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.