FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 270: Defense Contracting Programs
DFARS 270.000 Scope of part.
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 explains that DFARS Part 270 exists as a place to publish defense-specific contracting program rules that do not fit under DFARS subchapter D and do not implement or supplement FAR Part 19 or Parts 22 through 25. It matters to contractors mainly as a structural note about where such rules are located, not as a rule imposing duties.
Applies to: DFARS Part 270 coverage of defense-specific contracting programs
Key terms: DFARS · subchapter D · Socioeconomic Programs · FAR part 19 · parts 22 through 25
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The text
This part has been created to facilitate promulgation of additional DFARS coverage of defense-specific contracting programs that do not properly fall under DFARS subchapter D, Socioeconomic Programs, and neither implement nor supplement existing FAR part 19 or parts 22 through 25.
Rule changes for DFARS Part 270
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Pilot Program To Incentivize Contracting With Employee-Owned Businesses (DFARS Case 2024-D004) ↗ · final rule 2024-10-10 · effective 2024-11-25
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Pilot Program To Incentivize Contracting With Employee-Owned Businesses (DFARS Case 2024-D004) ↗ · proposed 2024-05-30 · comments due 2024-07-29
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.