Automatic data processing equipment, legally defined, is 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

• by a Federal agency, or
• under a contract with a Federal agency

which

• requires the use of such equipment, or
• requires the performance of a service or the furnishing of a product which is performed or produced making significant use of such equipment.

The term includes

• computer,
• ancillary equipment,
• software,
• firmware, and similar procedures,
• services, including support services, and
• related resources as defined by regulations issued by the Administrator for General Services.

[Public Law 99-500, Title VII, Sec. 822 (a) Section 111(a) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 759(a)) revised. ]

Source: from Federal Standard 1037C