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DFARS 252.204-7000 Disclosure of information.

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 restricts a contractor from releasing unclassified information about the contract or related programs to anyone outside its organization, unless the Contracting Officer gives prior written approval, the information is already public, or it qualifies as fundamental research. It also requires contractors to include this restriction in subcontracts and to submit release requests at least 10 business days in advance.

Applies to: Contractors and subcontractors performing this contract

What it requires

  • Do not release unclassified information outside your organization without prior written approval, unless it is already public or qualifies as fundamental research.
  • Submit requests for approval to the Contracting Officer at least 10 business days before the proposed release date.
  • Include this requirement, including paragraph (c), in each subcontract under this contract.
  • Subcontractors must submit release requests through the prime contractor to the Contracting Officer.

Key terms: unclassified information · covered defense information · fundamental research · Contracting Officer · subcontract

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

The text

As prescribed in 204.404-70(a), use the following clause:

Disclosure of Information (OCT 2016)

(a) The Contractor shall not release to anyone outside the Contractor's organization any unclassified information, regardless of medium (e.g., film, tape, document), pertaining to any part of this contract or any program related to this contract, unless—

(1) The Contracting Officer has given prior written approval;

(2) The information is otherwise in the public domain before the date of release; or

(3) The information results from or arises during the performance of a project that involves no covered defense information (as defined in the clause at DFARS 252.204-7012, Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting) and has been scoped and negotiated by the contracting activity with the contractor and research performer and determined in writing by the contracting officer to be fundamental research (which by definition cannot involve any covered defense information), in accordance with National Security Decision Directive 189, National Policy on the Transfer of Scientific, Technical and Engineering Information, in effect on the date of contract award and the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) memoranda on Fundamental Research, dated May 24, 2010, and on Contracted Fundamental Research, dated June 26, 2008 (available at DFARS PGI 204.4).

(b) Requests for approval under paragraph (a)(1) shall identify the specific information to be released, the medium to be used, and the purpose for the release. The Contractor shall submit its request to the Contracting Officer at least 10 business days before the proposed date for release.

(c) The Contractor agrees to include a similar requirement, including this paragraph (c), in each subcontract under this contract. Subcontractors shall submit requests for authorization to release through the prime contractor to the Contracting Officer.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

  • 204.404-70 Additional contract clauses.
  • 252.204-7012 Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting.

Sections that refer to it

  • 204.403 Responsibilities of contracting officers.
  • 204.404-70 Additional contract clauses.

← 252.203-7005 Representation Relating to Compensation of Former DoD Officials. · 252.204-7001 [Reserved] →

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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