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DFARS 252.227-7015 Technical Data—Commercial Products and Commercial Services

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

Whenever commercial technical data developed at least in part at private expense is obtained from a sub for delivery to the government — including commercial subs (self-specified in (f)(2))

Form
verbatim ('without alteration, except to identify the parties') — paragraph (f)(2), NOT (e): (e) is Release from liability
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-04 · edition JAN 2025 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

One item for your checklist.

  1. Nothing to send, ever

    There is no paperwork here. It is a rule you follow while you perform the work.

    • Nothing to send under this one. The Government's license in the data is use inside the Government: not to have the item built again, and not for release outside

      Owed when the technical data pertains to a commercial product or commercial service developed exclusively at private expense — paragraph (b) is what decides that

      252.227-7015(c)(2)

When it is used

Contracts (including FAR Part 12) under which technical data for commercial products/services will be delivered (227.7102-4(a)(1)); if there was development with public funds, 7013 comes in ALONGSIDE for that portion.

Read closely

Paragraph (b) routes the rest: anything developed in part at Government expense goes to 252.227-7013, and anything under the small business research programs to 252.227-7018. Form, fit and function data and operation, maintenance, installation and training data come out unrestricted under (c)(1), and wider rights exist only through the separate agreement at (d). The markings themselves are 252.227-7013's and 252.227-7018's, not this clause's.

Alternates

  • Alt I · JAN 2025

    DFARS 227.7102-4(a)(2) — development or delivery of a vessel design or any useful article embodying one.

    Alternate I adds a vessel design definition and gives the Government rights to make, import, sell and distribute articles embodying the design as far as its data rights reach. It widens what the Government may do; it asks for nothing new from you.

The 18 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 291143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 423155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 462233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 72951Raytheon TC-001 — General Terms and Conditions of PurchaseRTXline 56960Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 127166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 250269Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-002 — U.S. Government FFP or T&M Order for Commercial Products and ServicesNorthrop Grummanline 2431166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2439168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2536255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1373243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 788240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2629106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1772273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1314107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 89889AAR Government Services — C40 Purchase Order General Provisions, Non-Commercial Firm Fixed Price Items or ServicesAAR Corpline 3219178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1179

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.227-7015 and 227.7102-4 (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.