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DFARS 252.239-7016 Telecommunications Security Equipment, Devices, Techniques, and Services

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(e): all subcontracts requiring securing telecommunications — no dollar threshold

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

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-11 · edition DEC 1991 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

2 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. A program you have to be running

    You are either running it or you are not, and what the prime asks for is the date it started.

    • Government-approved telecommunications security equipment, devices, techniques or services, compatible with what the buyer already runs and furnished at your own cost

      Owed when paragraph (b) identifies the classified or sensitive information and names the location where the telecommunications have to be secured — a blank there leaves nothing measurable

      252.239-7016(c) and (d)

  2. 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.

    • Ownership eligibility for communications security equipment designated as a controlled cryptographic item

      Owed when the approved equipment for the work is designated a controlled cryptographic item

      252.239-7016(d)

When it is used

Applies when contract performance requires secure telecommunications — transmission of classified or sensitive information, or matter critical to military/intelligence missions (prescription 239.7411(d)). Flows down to every sub requiring 'securing telecommunications'.

Read closely

The approved list, the location and the equipment already in use are all fill-ins in (b) and (c). Where the buyer copied the clause without completing them, what is owed cannot be read off the text alone.

The 9 templates that name it, with the line
233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 1647166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2531166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2468168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2557255GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-005 — General Provisions, Firm Fixed Price PO under U.S. Government Contract (Non-Commercial)General Dynamicsline 1390243GD Mission Systems SCM-TMP-048 — T&M Purchase Orders for Non-Commercial Items in Support of a U.S. Government ContractGeneral Dynamicsline 2361240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2799273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1207178AAR Component Services NY — U.S. Government Contract FAR and DFARS Clauses Incorporated by ReferenceAAR Corpline 1682

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.239-7016. CODIFIED REGIME, read 2026-08-11 on the part-252 page at DFARS Change 5/7/2026: "As prescribed in 239.7411(d), use the following clause:" with designation (DEC 1991). DEVIATION REGIME, read 2026-08-11 in acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-39.pdf (599072 bytes, 29 pages, DARS Tracking Number 2026-O0024, "Effective February 1, 2026, contracting officers shall use"): 239.7411(d) reads "Insert the clause at 252.239-7016, Telecommunications Security Equipment, Devices, Techniques, and Services, in solicitations and contracts when performance of a contract requires secure telecommunications.", and the clause head reads "As prescribed in 239.7411(d), use the following clause:" with the same designation (DEC 1991). THE TWO REGIMES AGREE on number, prescription and designation. TO RE-DERIVE WITHOUT REDOING THE RESEARCH: fetch that PDF, run pdftotext -layout over it, and grep for 252.239-7016 — 3 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.