# Federal Acquisition Regulation: Good Faith in Small Business Subcontracting
> **US Department of Defense** · Final rule. · Published 2021-08-11 · Effective 2021-09-10 · 86 FR 44249
## Document
- **Document number:** 2021-16366
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Defense
- **Federal Register citation:** 86 FR 44249
- **CFR reference:** 48 CFR 19
- **Publication date:** 2021-08-11
- **Effective date:** 2021-09-10
- **DOD docket:** FAC 2021-07
## Abstract

DoD, GSA, and NASA are issuing a final rule amending the Federal Acquisition Regulation to implement a section of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which requires examples of failure to make good faith efforts to comply with a small business subcontracting plan.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/08/11/2021-16366/federal-acquisition-regulation-good-faith-in-small-business-subcontracting)
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