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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 227: Patents, Data, and Copyrights › Subpart 227.72

DFARS 227.7207 Contractor data repositories.

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 section tells contracting officers to follow DFARS 227.7108 when the Government wants a data repository to include computer software, or wants a separate software repository. Any contractual instrument setting up the repository must properly reflect the repository manager's software responsibilities.

Applies to: Contracting officers and contractors involved in establishing Government data repositories

What it requires

  • Follow 227.7108 when the Government's interests call for a data repository to include computer software or a separate software repository
  • Ensure contractual instruments establishing repository requirements appropriately reflect the repository manager's software responsibilities

Key terms: data repository · computer software · repository manager · contractual instruments

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

The text

Follow 227.7108 when it is in the Government's interests to have a data repository include computer software or to have a separate computer software repository. Contractual instruments establishing the repository requirements must appropriately reflect the repository manager's software responsibilities.

Sections it refers to

← 227.7206 Contracts for architect-engineer services.

Rule changes for DFARS Part 227

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

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