---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 133"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "133"
heading: "Executive agency"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/133"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division A — General"
  - "Chapter 1 — Definitions"
  - "Subchapter II — Division B Definitions"
---

# §133. Executive agency


In division B, the term “executive agency” means—

- (1) an executive department specified in [section 101 of title 5](/usc/5/101.md);
- (2) a military department specified in [section 102 of title 5](/usc/5/102.md);
- (3) an independent establishment as defined in [section 104(1) of title 5](/usc/5/104.md?p=1); and
- (4) a wholly owned Government corporation fully subject to chapter 91 of title 31.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3682.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 133 | 41:403(1). | Pub. L. 93–400, § 4(1), Aug. 30, 1974, 88 Stat. 797; Pub. L. 96–83, § 3, Oct. 10, 1979, 93 Stat. 649; Pub. L. 98–191, § 4, Dec. 1, 1983, 97 Stat. 1326; Pub. L. 103–355, title VIII, § 8001(b)(1)–(3), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3386. |