---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 116"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "116"
heading: "Technical data"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/116"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division A — General"
  - "Chapter 1 — Definitions"
  - "Subchapter I — Subtitle Definitions"
---

# §116. Technical data


In this subtitle, the term “technical data”—

- (1) means recorded information (regardless of the form or method of the recording) of a scientific or technical nature (including computer software documentation) relating to supplies procured by an agency; but
- (2) does not include computer software or financial, administrative, cost or pricing, or management data or other information incidental to contract administration.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3681.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 116 | 41:259(c)(6). | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 309(c)(6), 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. |
|  | 41:403(8). | Pub. L. 93–400, § 4(8), formerly § 4(9), as added Pub. L. 98–577, title I, § 102(3), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3067; redesignated as § 4(8), Pub. L. 100–679, § 3(c), Nov. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 4056; Pub. L. 103–355, title VIII, § 8001(b)(1)–(3), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3386. |