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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 4: Administrative and Information Matters › Subpart 4.22

FAR 4.2201 Definitions.

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 defines two key terms used in the FAR subpart on covered applications: 'covered application' and 'information technology'. It matters because it clarifies that TikTok and any successor ByteDance application are covered, and it specifies what equipment, systems, and services count as information technology under the FAR.

Applies to: Contractors and executive agencies subject to the FAR subpart on covered applications

Key terms: Covered application · Information technology · TikTok · ByteDance Limited · Executive agency

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

The text

As used in this subpart—

Covered application means the social networking service TikTok or any successor application or service developed or provided by ByteDance Limited or an entity owned by ByteDance Limited.

Information technology, as defined in 40 U.S.C. 11101(6)—

(1) Means any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, used in the automatic acquisition, storage, analysis, evaluation, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information by the executive agency, if the equipment is used by the executive agency directly or is used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that requires the use—

(i) Of that equipment; or

(ii) Of that equipment to a significant extent in the performance of a service or the furnishing of a product;

(2) Includes computers, ancillary equipment (including imaging peripherals, input, output, and storage devices necessary for security and surveillance), peripheral equipment designed to be controlled by the central processing unit of a computer, software, firmware and similar procedures, services (including support services), and related resources; but

(3) Does not include any equipment acquired by a Federal contractor incidental to a Federal contract.

← 4.2105 Solicitation provisions and contract clause. · 4.2202 Prohibition. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 4

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

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