Pentagon Submits Vague Request to Collect Your Information
Published Date: 11/26/2025
Notice
Summary
The Department of Defense is asking for approval to keep collecting important software cost and effort data from 35 contractors and government folks. This info helps them estimate costs for current and future projects, with about 6,880 hours spent yearly on these reports. If you’re involved, get your comments in by December 26, 2025, to have your say!
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 2 costs, 0 mixed.
Annual software reporting burden
The DoD will continue collecting Software Resource Data Reports on DD Forms 3026-1, 3026-2, and 3026-3 from 35 respondents. That collection totals 430 annual responses and 6,880 annual burden hours, with an average burden per response of 16 hours and the activity occurring annually.
Reporting trigger at $100,000,000
Under 10 U.S.C. 2334(g) and Department of Defense Instruction 5000.73, acquisition programs with anticipated costs that individually or collectively exceed $100,000,000 must provide cost and software data. That statutory $100,000,000 threshold triggers the requirement to submit the cost data reports.
Submission is voluntary
The notice states the respondent's obligation is voluntary. If you are asked to provide these Software Resource Data Reports, providing them to DoD is voluntary and the collection happens on an annual basis.
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