# Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Prohibition on Award to Contractors That Require Certain Nondisclosure Agreements (DFARS Case 2021-D018)
> **Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations System** · Final rule. · Published 2022-10-28 · Effective 2022-10-28 · 87 FR 65510
## Document
- **Document number:** 2022-23281
- **Category:** dfars-acquisition
- **Sub-agency:** Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations System
- **Federal Register citation:** 87 FR 65510
- **CFR reference:** 48 CFR 203
- **Publication date:** 2022-10-28
- **Effective date:** 2022-10-28
- **DOD docket:** Docket DARS-2022-0013
## Abstract

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 2021 that prohibits the award of any DoD contracts to an entity that requires its employees to sign internal confidentiality agreements or statements that would prohibit or otherwise restrict its employees from lawfully reporting waste, fraud, or abuse related to the performance of a DoD contract to a designated investigative or law enforcement representative of DoD authorized to receive such information.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/10/28/2022-23281/defense-federal-acquisition-regulation-supplement-prohibition-on-award-to-contractors-that-require)
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