§843 DEFINITIONS.

Summary

Gives plain meanings for key words used in this subtitle. Covered activities are things like violence against the United States or its partners and allies; providing money, logistics, training, or intelligence to those who do violence; foreign intelligence against the United States or its partners and allies; transnational organized crime or other criminal acts; and other actions that create a direct or indirect risk to U.S. or partner missions and forces. A covered contract, grant, or cooperative agreement is any such award performed outside the United States, including its possessions and territories. A covered person or entity is any person or business outside the United States, including foreign reporting companies under section 5336(a)(11)(A)(ii) of title 31, United States Code, that responds to a covered solicitation or works on a covered award. A covered procurement action is a decision by a head of contracting activity to exclude someone from an award, to terminate a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement for default, or to void all or part of one. A covered solicitation is any Department of Defense request for work to be done outside the United States. "Head of contracting activity" has the meaning in section 1.601 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.