---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 105"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "105"
heading: "Component"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/105"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division A — General"
  - "Chapter 1 — Definitions"
  - "Subchapter I — Subtitle Definitions"
---

# §105. Component


In this subtitle, the term “component” means an item supplied to the Federal Government as part of an end item or of another component.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3680.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 105 | 41:259(c)(14). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 309(c)(14), as added Pub. L. 98–369, title VII, § 2711(a)(3), July 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 1180; Pub. L. 98–577, title V, § 504(a)(4), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3086; Pub. L. 103–355, title I, § 1551, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3299. |
|  | 41:264a (“component”). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 314A (“component”), as added Pub. L. 103–355, title VIII, § 8202, Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3394. |
|  | 41:403(14). | Pub. L. 93–400, § 4(14), as added Pub. L. 103–355, title VIII, § 8001(a), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3386. |