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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 225: Foreign Acquisition › Subpart 225.70

DFARS 225.7004-2 Restrictions.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This DFARS section prohibits acquiring certain listed items, whether as end products or components, unless the manufacturer is part of the national technology and industrial base. It applies to items such as buses, certain naval vessel components, large medium-speed diesel engines for specified ship programs, equipment for T-AO 205 and T-ARC class vessels, and star trackers. Contractors must check the exceptions in 225.7004-3 before acquiring these items.

Applies to: Contractors acquiring the listed items as end products or components

What it requires

  • Do not acquire the listed items unless the manufacturer is part of the national technology and industrial base, except as provided in 225.7004-3.

Key terms: national technology and industrial base · end products · components · manufacturer

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

Except as provided in 225.7004-3, do not acquire any of the following items, either as end products or components, unless the manufacturer of the items is part of the national technology and industrial base:

(a) Buses, if multipassenger motor vehicles are purchased, leased, rented, or made available under contracts for transportation services.

(b) Components for naval vessels, to the extent they are unique to marine applications (see also 225.7004-4 for implementation of the restriction for naval vessels):

(1) Gyrocompasses.

(2) Electronic navigation chart systems.

(3) Steering controls.

(4) Propulsion and machinery control systems.

(5) Totally enclosed lifeboats.

(6) Welded shipboard anchor and mooring chain. See also 225.7004-5.

(c) Large medium-speed diesel engines for new construction of auxiliary ships using funds available for National Defense Sealift Fund programs or Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy.

(d) For T-AO 205 and T-ARC class vessels:

(1) Auxiliary equipment, including pumps, for all shipboard services.

(2) Propulsion system components, including engines, reduction gears, and propellers.

(3) Shipboard cranes.

(4) Spreaders for shipboard cranes.

(e) Star trackers.

Sections it refers to

  • 225.7004-3 Exceptions.
  • 225.7004-4 Implementation of restriction on certain naval vessel components.
  • 225.7004-5 Additional restrictions on anchor and mooring chain.

Sections that refer to it

← 225.7004-1 Definitions. · 225.7004-3 Exceptions. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 225

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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