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DFARS 252.235-7003 Frequency Authorization

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(d): every subcontract requiring the development, production, construction, testing, or operation of a device for which a radio frequency authorization is required — no threshold

Form
verbatim — 'this clause, including this paragraph (d)'
Reaches
all tiers

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-11 · edition MAR 2014 (Basic and Alternate I) · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 items for your checklist, slowest first.

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

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

    • An authorized radio frequency allocation for the device, which is what lets it be tested or operated at all

      DFARS 252.235-7003(a)

  2. Something you write

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

    • The device's technical operating characteristics, handed to the buyer during the planning, experimental or development phase rather than after the prototype is built

      DFARS 252.235-7003(b)

When it is used

Applies in contracts to develop, produce, construct, test, or operate a device requiring radio frequency authorization (prescription 235.072(b); Alt I when the DD Form 1494 is used). Flows down to any sub whose work involves such a device — no dollar threshold.

Read closely

Where the version in the document is the alternate, the route is DD Form 1494, Application for Equipment Frequency Allocation, named at paragraph (c) of that alternate. (d) carries the clause verbatim into any of your own orders for a device needing an authorization.

The 13 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 449155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 484233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 164060Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 161166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2525166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2455168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2551255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1388243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2359240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2779273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1203107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 979178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1677

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.235-7003. CODIFIED REGIME, read 2026-08-11 on the part-252 page at DFARS Change 5/7/2026: "As prescribed in 235.072(b) and (b)(1), use the following clause:" with designation FREQUENCY AUTHORIZATION—BASIC (MAR 2014). DEVIATION REGIME, read 2026-08-11 in acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-35.pdf (555807 bytes, 19 pages, DARS Tracking Number 2026-O0014, "Effective February 1, 2026, contracting officers shall use"): the Basic clause head reads "As prescribed in 235.176(c) and (c)(1), use the following clause:" with the same designation FREQUENCY AUTHORIZATION—BASIC (MAR 2014), and 235.176(c) reads "Insert the basic or the alternate of the clause at 252.235-7003, Frequency Authorization, in solicitations and contracts for developing, producing, constructing, testing, or operating a device requiring a frequency authorization." SAME NUMBER AND SAME DESIGNATION, MOVED PRESCRIPTION: 235.072(b) and (b)(1) codified, 235.176(c) and (c)(1) under the deviation, and the basic-versus-alternate gate is the same in both. TO RE-DERIVE WITHOUT REDOING THE RESEARCH: fetch that PDF, run pdftotext -layout over it, and grep for 252.235-7003 — 2 occurrences on 2026-08-11, poppler pdftotext. (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.