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

DFARS 252.249-7002 Notification of Anticipated Contract Termination or Reduction.

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 notify employees, employee representatives, state and local officials, and certain subcontractors when the Contracting Officer says contract funding will be terminated or substantially reduced under a major defense program. The notice helps affected workers establish eligibility for training and adjustment assistance under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. It also requires the contractor to pass the notice down to qualifying first-tier subcontractors and have them do the same for their subcontractors.

Applies to: DoD contractors and subcontractors working on major defense programs facing anticipated termination or substantial reduction

What it requires

  • Within 2 weeks after the Contracting Officer's notice, notify each employee representative (or each employee if no representative) whose work is directly related to the defense contract
  • Within 2 weeks, notify the State or designated entity carrying out rapid response activities and the chief elected official of the affected local government
  • Not later than 60 days after the Contracting Officer's notice, notify each first-tier subcontractor whose subcontract meets or exceeds the DFARS 249.7003(c)(1) threshold
  • Require those subcontractors to notify their subcontractors meeting the DFARS 249.7003(c)(2)(i) threshold and impose a similar flowdown for subcontracts meeting the DFARS 249.7003(c)(2)(ii) threshold

Key terms: Major defense program · Major system · Notice of termination · First-tier subcontractor · Rapid response activities

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

The text

As prescribed in 249.7004, use the following clause:

Notification of Anticipated Contract Termination or Reduction (DEC 2022)

(a) Definition. As used in this clause—

Major defense program means a program that is carried out to produce or acquire a major system (as defined in 10 U.S.C. 3041(a)).

(b) Scope. This clause implements section 1372 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (Pub. L. 103-160) and section 824 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Pub. L. 104-201), which are intended to help establish benefit eligibility under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. chapter 32) for employees of DoD contractors and subcontractors adversely affected by contract terminations or substantial reductions under major defense programs.

(c) Notice to employees and state and local officials. (1) Within 2 weeks after the Contracting Officer notifies the Contractor that contract funding will be terminated or substantially reduced, the Contractor shall provide notice of such anticipated termination or reduction to—

(i) Each employee representative of the Contractor's employees whose work is directly related to the defense contract; or

(ii) If there is no such representative, each such employee;

(iii) The State or entity designated by the State to carry out rapid response activities described in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3174(a)(2)(A)(i)); and

(iv) The chief elected official of the unit of general local government within which the adverse effect may occur.

(2) The notice provided an employee under paragraph (c)(1) of this clause shall have the same effect as a notice of termination to the employee for the purposes of determining whether such employee is eligible for training, adjustment assistance, and employment services under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. Chapter 32).

(d) Notice to subcontractors. Not later than 60 days after the Contractor receives the Contracting Officer's notice of the anticipated termination or reduction, the Contractor shall—

(1) Provide notice of the anticipated termination or reduction to each first-tier subcontractor with a subcontract that equals or exceeds the threshold specified in Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) 249.7003(c)(1) at the time of the notice; and

(2) Require that each such subcontractor—

(i) Provide notice to each of its subcontractors with a subcontract that equals or exceeds the threshold specified in DFARS 249.7003(c)(2)(i) at the time of the notice; and

(ii) Impose a similar notice and flowdown requirement to subcontractors with subcontracts that equal or exceed the threshold specified in DFARS 249.7003(c)(2)(ii) at the time of the notice.

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

  • 249.7004 Contract clause.
  • 249.7003 Notification of anticipated contract terminations or reductions.

Sections that refer to it

← 252.249-7001 [Reserved] · 252.251-7000 Ordering from Government supply sources. →

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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