### Question
What does automatic data processing equipment mean?


### Answer
**Automatic data processing equipment** has the following meaning in *40 U.S.C. § 759*:

> any equipment or interconnected system or subsystems of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching interchange, transmission, or reception, of data or information—


(i) by a Federal agency, or


(ii) under a contract with a Federal agency which—


(I) requires the use of such equipment, or


(II) requires the performance of a service or the furnishing of a product which is performed or produced making significant use of such equipment

#### Citation:
  - *40 U.S.C. § 759*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 16-GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION**

