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DFARS 252.225-7973 Prohibition on the Procurement of Foreign-Made Unmanned Aircraft Systems-Representation (Deviation 2024-O0014)
Does the regulation require it to flow down?
No
The provision contains no subcontracts paragraph and the deviation prescribes it for solicitations only. What binds lower tiers is 252.225-7972(c). Primes carry the representation into flow-down packages because paragraph (c)(1) of the provision is written to cover 'any contract, subcontract, or other contractual instrument resulting from this solicitation' — the prime cannot make that statement for its own supply chain without collecting it from each quoting supplier. GDMS SCM-TMP-005, -048, and -095 (2026-07-20) place it correctly under 'FAR/DFARS Clauses - Applicable to Solicitation', not among the contract clauses.
A clause can reach your subcontract without a mandate. Once it is in your document, it is a contract term all the same. The missing mandate is a fact about the regulation. It is not a ruling on your order.
Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-05 · edition Class Deviation 2024-O0014, issued 2024-08-28; provision text designated (AUG 2024) (DEVIATION 2024-O0014) · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗
What it makes you produce
One item for your checklist.
Something you fill in and send back
Hours, once you know which one is missing.
The representation, three statements at once: that no covered-country unmanned aircraft system will be provided or used, that no covered-country detection or identification system will be, and that you are not a firm operating equipment from a covered company
DFARS 252.225-7973(c)
When it is used
Not a codified DFARS provision. Prescribed by DoD Class Deviation 2024-O0014 (issued 2024-08-28) for use in solicitations, including solicitations using FAR part 12 procedures for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services, 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 and section 817 of the FY2023 NDAA. No dollar threshold and no commercial or COTS carve-out. It is the solicitation-stage twin of 252.225-7972 and borrows the definition of 'covered foreign country' from that clause.
Read closely
The third statement is about your own equipment as of 2024-10-01 rather than about what you are quoting, which is the one people tick without reading. The Commerce consolidated screening list changes, so the answer is as of the day of the quote. The clause that binds a lower tier is DFARS 252.225-7972(c). It exists under DoD Class Deviation 2024-O0014 and is not in the DFARS; templates that file it under solicitation instruments have it in the right place.
The 3 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), Attachment, pages 1-2; acquisition.gov, DFARS part 252 table of contents (no 252.225-7973), 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.