[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 32, Volume 1]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 32CFR21.565]



[Page 69-70]

 

                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE

 

              CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

 

PART 21_DoD GRANTS AND AGREEMENTS_GENERAL MATTERS--Table of Contents

 

 Subpart E_Information Reporting on Awards Subject to 31 U.S.C. Chapter 

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Sec.  21.565  Must DoD Components' electronic systems accept Data 

Universal Numbering System (DUNS) numbers?



    The DoD Components must comply with paragraph 5.e of the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) policy directive entitled, ``Requirement for 

a DUNS number in the Applications for Federal Grants and Cooperative 

Agreements \6\.'' Paragraph 5.e requires electronic systems that handle 

information about grants and cooperative agreements (which, for the DoD, 

include Technology Investment Agreements) to accept DUNS numbers. Each 

DoD Component that awards for administers grants or cooperative 

agreements must ensure that DUNS numbers are accepted by each such 

system for which the DoD Component controls the system specifications. 

If the specifications of such a system are subject to another 

organization's control and the system can not accept DUNS numbers, the 

DoD Component must alert that organization to the OMB policy directive's



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requirement for use of DUNS numbers with a copy to: Director for Basic 

Sciences, ODDR&E, 3040 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-3040.

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    \6\ This OMB policy directive is available at the Internet site 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants/grants.docs.html.



[70 FR 49462, Aug. 23, 2005]