[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 48, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 48CFR39.002]



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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM

 

                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION

 

PART 39_ACQUISITION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 39.002  Definitions.



    As used in this part--

    Modular contracting means use of one or more contracts to acquire 

information technology systems in successive, interoperable increments.

    National security system means any telecommunications or information 

system operated by the United States Government, the function, 

operation, or use of which--

    (1) Involves intelligence activities;

    (2) Involves cryptologic activities related to national security;

    (3) Involves command and control of military forces;

    (4) Involves equipment that is an integral part of a weapon or 

weapons system; or

    (5) Is critical to the direct fulfillment of military or 

intelligence missions. This does not include a system that is to be used 

for routine administrative and business applications, such as payroll, 

finance, logistics, and personnel management applications.

    Year 2000 compliant with respect to information technology, means 

that the information technology accurately processes date/time data 

(including, but not limited to, calculating, comparing, and sequencing) 

from, into, and between the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and 

the years 1999 and 2000 and leap year calculations, to the extent that 

other information technology, used in combination with the information 

technology being acquired,



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properly exchanges date/time data with it.



[61 FR 41470, Aug. 8, 1996, as amended at 62 FR 274, Jan. 2, 1997; 62 FR 

44830, Aug. 22, 1997; 63 FR 9068, Feb. 23, 1998; 66 FR 2133, Jan. 10, 

2001]