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FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 252: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 252.2

DFARS 252.203-7002 Requirement to Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights.

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 clause requires a contractor to tell its employees in writing about whistleblower rights and protections under 10 U.S.C. 4701, using the predominant native language of the workforce. It also requires the contractor to pass this same requirement down to all subcontracts. It matters because it creates a written-notice duty and a flow-down duty for contractors and subcontractors.

Applies to: Contractors and their subcontractors under covered DoD contracts

What it requires

  • Inform employees in writing of contractor employee whistleblower rights and protections under 10 U.S.C. 4701
  • Provide that information in the predominant native language of the workforce
  • Include the substance of this clause, including paragraph (b), in all subcontracts

Key terms: whistleblower rights · predominant native language · subcontracts · 10 U.S.C. 4701 · subpart 203.9

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

The text

As prescribed in 203.970, use the following clause:

Requirement To Inform Employees of Whistleblower Rights (DEC 2022)

(a) The Contractor shall inform its employees in writing, in the predominant native language of the workforce, of contractor employee whistleblower rights and protections under 10 U.S.C. 4701, as described in subpart 203.9 of the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement.

(b) The Contractor shall include the substance of this clause, including this paragraph (b), in all subcontracts.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

Sections that refer to it

  • 203.970 Contract clause.
  • 212.301 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses for the acquisition of commercial products and commercial services.
  • 216.307 Contract clauses.

← 252.203-7001 Prohibition on Persons Convicted of Fraud or Other Defense-Contract-Related Felonies. · 252.203-7003 Agency Office of the Inspector General. →

Rule changes for DFARS Part 252

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

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