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Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1996

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ16897089 ↗
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The Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1996 was U.S. national legislation enacted as Division D of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (110 Stat. 186; Pub. L. 104–106 (text) (PDF)). Together with the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996, it is known as the Clinger–Cohen Act.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Federal, Acquisition and Reform is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1996” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.