[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR21.565]

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                       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 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 or 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 
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.

[72 FR 34986, June 26, 2007]