Clauses · DFARS · Banned sources and products
DFARS 252.225-7972 Prohibition on the Procurement of Foreign-Made Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Deviation 2024-O0014)
Does the regulation require it to flow down?
Yes
Paragraph (c): 'The Contractor shall insert the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (c), in all subcontracts or other contractual instruments, including subcontracts for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.' No dollar floor and no commercial or COTS exception.
- Form
- substance, including paragraph (c) itself — self-perpetuating
- Reaches
- all tiers
Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-05 · edition Class Deviation 2024-O0014, issued 2024-08-28; clause text designated (AUG 2024) (DEVIATION 2024-O0014) · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗
What it makes you produce
One item for your checklist.
Nothing to send, ever
There is no paperwork here. It is a rule you follow while you perform the work.
No unmanned aircraft system, no system for detecting or identifying one, and no related service or equipment made in China, Russia, Iran or North Korea or by an entity domiciled there — the ban reaches the flight controller, radios, data transmission devices, cameras, gimbals, ground control system, operating software, network connectivity and data storage — and, since 2024-10-01, not being a firm that operates equipment from a covered unmanned aircraft system company
DFARS 252.225-7972
When it is used
Not a codified DFARS clause. Prescribed by DoD Class Deviation 2024-O0014 (issued 2024-08-28, rescinding and superseding Class Deviation 2020-O0015), which directs use in solicitations and contracts, including those using FAR part 12 procedures for commercial products and commercial services, with no dollar threshold, UNLESS (a) the acquisition is for counter-unmanned aircraft system surrogate testing and training, or for intelligence, electronic warfare, and information warfare operations, testing, analysis, and training; or (b) the Secretary of Defense has granted a waiver under section 848 of the FY2020 NDAA (Pub. L. 116-92) and section 817 of the FY2023 NDAA (Pub. L. 117-263). 'Covered foreign country' means China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Read closely
This row cites the clause number alone: the text exists only in the attachment to DoD Class Deviation 2024-O0014, which is not published on acquisition.gov, so the paragraph carrying the prohibition was not read. What was read is the flow-down paragraph (c), which carries the substance, including itself, into every subcontract and other instrument at any value, commercial ones included. Two separate tests: what you deliver, and what you own. A United States-assembled drone with a Chinese gimbal or Chinese cloud storage is inside the first; a survey drone sitting in your own facility is inside the second, on a contract that has nothing to do with aviation. Covered companies name DJI and its subsidiaries and affiliates outright, plus producers on the Commerce consolidated screening list, which changes.
The 4 templates that name it, with the line
Source: acq.osd.mil DPCAP class deviation index (read 2026-08-05, lists 2024-O0014 as current) and DoD Class Deviation 2024-O0014, memo USA001878-24-DPCAP (28 August 2024) with its Attachment; acquisition.gov, DFARS part 252 table of contents (no 252.225-7972/-7973), DFARS 212.301, FAR 52.244-6 and 52.212-5; acq.osd.mil, Class Deviations 2026-O0041 Rev. 1 Attachment A1 and 2026-O0028 Attachment 1 (verified 2026-08-05)
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.