Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Preventing Conflicts of Interest for Certain Consulting Services (DFARS Case 2024-D007)

Document 2025-16206 is a Final Rule published by the Department of Defense in the Federal Register on August 25, 2025, with an effective date of October 24, 2025. DoD is issuing a final rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement a section of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which prohibits contracting officers from awarding contracts assigned certain North American Industry Classification System codes to offerors holding contracts that involve consulting services with certain covered foreign entities. View the original at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/25/2025-16206/defense-federal-acquisition-regulation-supplement-preventing-conflicts-of-interest-for-certain.

No. Document 2025-16206 is not classified as economically significant under Executive Order 12866. Economically significant rules require OIRA review and are estimated to have impacts of $100 million or more per year.