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- I—Firearms, Close Assault Weapons and Combat Shotguns
- II—Guns and Armament
- III—Ammunition/Ordnance
- IV—Launch Vehicles, Guided Missiles, Ballistic Missiles, Rockets, Torpedoes, Bombs, and Mines
- V—Explosives and Energetic Materials, Propellants, Incendiary Agents, and Their Constituents
- VI—Surface Vessels of War and Special Naval Equipment
- VII—Ground Vehicles
- VIII—Aircraft and Related Articles
- IX—Military Training Equipment and Training
- X—Personal Protective Equipment
- XI—Military Electronics
- XII—Fire Control, Laser, Imaging, and Guidance Equipment
- XIII— Materials and Miscellaneous Articles
- XIV—Toxicological Agents, Including Chemical Agents, Biological Agents, and Associated Equipment
- XV— Spacecraft and Related Articles
- XVI—Nuclear Weapons Related Articles
- XVII—Classified Articles, Technical Data, and Defense Services Not Otherwise Enumerated
- XVIII—Directed Energy Weapons
- XIX—Gas Turbine Engines and Associated Equipment
- XX—Submersible Vessels and Related Articles
- XXI—Articles, Technical Data, and Defense Services Not Otherwise Enumerated
Category I—Firearms, Close Assault Weapons and Combat Shotguns
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- Nonautomatic and semi-automatic firearms to caliber .50 inclusive (12.7 mm)
- Fully automatic firearms to .50 caliber inclusive (12.7 mm)
- Firearms or other weapons (e.g. insurgency-counterinsurgency, close assault weapons systems) having a special military application regardless of caliber
- Combat shotguns. This includes any shotgun with a barrel length less than 18 inches
- Silencers, mufflers, sound and flash suppressors
- Riflescopes manufactured to military specifications
- Barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or complete breech mechanisms
- Components, parts, accessories and attachments
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the articles in this category
Category II—Guns and Armament
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- Guns over caliber .50 (i.e., 12.7 mm), whether towed, airborne, self-propelled, or fixed, including but not limited to, howitzers, mortars, cannons, recoilless rifles, and grenade launchers
- Flame throwers specifically designed or modified for military application
- Apparatus and devices for launching or delivering ordnance
- Kinetic energy weapon systems specifically designed or modified for destruction or rendering mission-abort of a target
- Signature control materials (e.g., parasitic, structural, coatings, screening) techniques, and equipment specifically designed, developed, configured, adapted or modified to alter or reduce the signature (e.g., muzzle flash suppression, radar, infrared, visual, laser/electro-optical, acoustic) of defense articles in this category
- Engines specifically designed or modified for the self-propelled guns and howitzers
- Tooling and equipment specifically designed or modified for the production of defense articles in this category
- Test and evaluation equipment and test models specifically designed or modified for the articles in this category
- Autoloading systems for electronic programming of projectile function for the defense articles in this category
- All other components, parts, accessories, attachments and associated equipment specifically designed or modified for the articles in this category
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles in this category
Category III—Ammunition/Ordnance
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- Ammunition/ordnance for the articles in Categories I and II
- Ammunition/ordnance handling equipment specifically designed or modified for the articles controlled in this category, such as, belting, linking, and de-linking equipment
- Equipment and tooling specifically designed or modified for the production of defense articles in this category
- Components, parts, accessories, attachments and associated equipment specifically designed or modified for the articles in this category
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles in this category
Category IV—Launch Vehicles, Guided Missiles, Ballistic Missiles, Rockets, Torpedoes, Bombs, and Mines
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- Rockets, space launch vehicles (SLVs), missiles, bombs, torpedoes, depth charges, mines, and grenades
- Launchers for rockets, SLVs, and missiles
- Apparatus and devices specially designed for the handling, control, activation, monitoring, detection, protection, discharge, or detonation of the articles in this category
- Rocket, SLV, and missile power plants
- Non-nuclear warheads for rockets, bombs, and missiles (e.g., explosive, kinetic, EMP, thermobaric, shape charge, and fuel air explosive (FAE))
- Systems, subsystems, parts, components, accessories, attachments, or associated equipment
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles in this category
- Commodities, software, and technical data subject to the EAR used in or with defense articles
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- Solid propellant rocket motors, hybrid or gel rocket motors, or liquid propellant rocket engines having a total impulse capacity equal to or greater than 1.1 × 106 N·s (MT)
- Solid propellant rocket motors, hybrid or gel rocket motors, or liquid propellant rocket engines having a total impulse capacity equal to or greater than 8.41 × 105 N·s, but less than 1.1 × 106 N·s (MT)
- Combined cycle, pulsejet, ramjet, or scramjet engines (MT)
- Air-breathing engines that operate above Mach 4
- Pressure gain combustion-based propulsion systems
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- Fixed launch sites and mobile launcher mechanisms for any system in this category
- Fixed launch sites and mobile launcher mechanisms for any system in this category (e.g., launch tables, TOW missile, MANPADS)
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- Solid propellant rocket motors, hybrid or gel rocket motors, or liquid propellant rocket engines having a total impulse capacity equal to or greater than 1.1 × 106 N·s (MT)
- Solid propellant rocket motors, hybrid or gel rocket motors, or liquid propellant rocket engines having a total impulse capacity equal to or greater than 8.41 × 105 N·s, but less than 1.1 × 106 N·s (MT)
- Combined cycle, pulsejet, ramjet, or scramjet engines (MT)
- Air-breathing engines that operate above Mach 4
- Pressure gain combustion-based propulsion systems
- Rocket, SLV, and missile engines and motors, not otherwise enumerated in this category
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- Flight control and guidance systems (including guidance sets) specially designed for articles in this category
- Seeker systems specially designed for articles in this category
- Kinetic kill vehicles and specially designed parts and components
- Missile or rocket thrust vector control systems (MT for those thrust vector control systems usable in articles in this category)
- MANPADS grip stocks and specially designed parts and components
- Rocket or missile nozzles and nozzle throats, and specially designed parts and components
- Rocket or missile nose tips, nose fairings, or aerospikes, and specially designed parts and components
- Re-entry vehicle or warhead heat shields (MT for those re-entry vehicles and heat shields usable in systems enumerated in this category)
- Missile and rocket safing, arming, fuzing, and firing (SAFF) components (to include target detection and proximity sensing devices), and specially designed parts therefor (MT for those SAFF components usable in systems in this category)
- Self-destruct systems specially designed for articles in this category Separation mechanisms, staging mechanisms, and interstages useable for articles in this category
- Post-boost vehicles (PBV) (MT)
- Engine or motor mounts specially designed for articles in this category
- Combustion chambers specially designed for articles in this category
- Injectors specially designed for articles in this category
- Solid rocket motor or liquid engine igniters
- Re-entry vehicles and specially designed parts and components not elsewhere specified in this category (MT)
- Specially designed parts and components for articles not elsewhere specified in this category (MT)
- Penetration aids and specially designed parts and component (e.g., physical or electronic countermeasure suites, re-entry vehicle replicas or decoys, or submunitions)
- Rocket motor cases and specially designed parts and components therefor (e.g., flanges, flange seals, end domes) (MT for those rocket motor cases) and for specially designed parts and components for hybrid rocket motors
- Solid rocket motor liners and rocket motor insulation (MT for those solid rocket motor liners usable in systems) and rocket motor insulation usable in systems in this category
- Radomes, sensor windows, and antenna windows specially designed and for any radomes, sensor windows, or antenna windows manufactured as composite structures or laminates specially designed for use in the systems and components in this category
- Rocket or missile payload fairings
- Rocket or missile launch canisters (MT for those rocket or missile launch canisters designed or modified for systems in this category)
- Fuzes specially designed for articles in this category (e.g., proximity, contact, electronic, dispenser proximity, airburst, variable time delay, or multi-option)
- Rocket or missile liquid propellant tanks (MT for those rocket or missile liquid propellant tanks usable in systems in this category)
- Rocket or missile altimeters specially designed for use in articles in this category
- Pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical, electro-optical, or electromechanical flight control systems (including fly-by-wire systems) and attitude control equipment specially designed for use in the rockets or missiles in this category
- Umbilical and interstage electrical connectors specially designed for use in the rockets or missiles in this category
- Any part, component, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that contains classified software directly related to defense articles and is being developed using classified information
Category V—Explosives and Energetic Materials, Propellants, Incendiary Agents, and Their Constituents
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- Explosives, and mixtures thereof
- Propellants (MT for composite and composite modified double-base propellants)
- Pyrotechnics, fuels and related substances, and mixtures thereof
- Oxidizers
- Binders, and mixtures thereof
- Additives
- Precursors
- Any explosive, propellant, pyrotechnic, fuel, oxidizer, binder, additive, or precursor that is classified or is being developed using classified information
- Developmental explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, fuels, oxidizers, binders, additives, or precursors therefor funded by the Department of Defense via contract or other funding authorization
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles in this category
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- ADNBF (aminodinitrobenzofuroxan or 7-Amino 4,6-dinitrobenzofurazane-1-oxide) (CAS 97096-78-1)
- BNCP (cis-bis(5-nitrotetrazolato) tetra amine-cobalt (III) perchlorate) (CAS 117412-28-9)
- CL-14 (diaminodinitrobenzofuroxan or 5,7-diamino-4,6-dinitrobenzofurazane-1-oxide) (CAS 117907-74-1)
- CL-20 (HNIW or Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane) (CAS 135285-90-4); clathrates of CL-20 (MT for CL-20)
- CP (2-(5-cyanotetrazolato) penta aminecobalt (III) perchlorate) (CAS 70247-32-4)
- DADE (1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene, FOX-7) (CAS 145250-81-3)
- DATB (Diaminotrinitrobenzene) (CAS 1630-08-6)
- DDFP (1,4-dinitrodifurazanopiperazine)
- DDPO (2,6-diamino-3,5-dinitropyrazine-1-oxide, PZO) (CAS 194486-77-6)
- DIPAM (3,3′-Diamino-2,2′,4,4′,6,6′-hexanitrobiphenyl or dipicramide) (CAS 17215-44-0)
- DNAN (2,4-Dinitroanisole) (CAS 119-27-7)
- DNGU (DINGU or dinitroglycoluril) (CAS 55510-04-8)
- Furazans
- GUDN (Guanylurea dinitramide) FOX-12 (CAS 217464-38-5)
- HMX and derivatives
- HNAD (hexanitroadamantane) (CAS 143850-71-9)
- HNS (hexanitrostilbene) (CAS 20062-22-0)
- Imidazoles
- NTNMH (1-(2-nitrotriazolo)-2-dinitromethylene hydrazine)
- NTO (ONTA or 3-nitro-1,2,4-triazol-5-one) (CAS 932-64-9)
- Polynitrocubanes with more than four nitro groups
- PYX (2,6-Bis(picrylamino)-3,5-dinitropyridine) (CAS 38082-89-2)
- RDX and derivatives
- TAGN (Triaminoguanidinenitrate) (CAS 4000-16-2)
- TATB (Triaminotrinitrobenzene) (CAS 3058-38-6)
- TEDDZ (3,3,7,7-tetrakis(difluoroamine) octahydro-1,5-dinitro-1,5-diazocine
- Tetrazines
- Tetrazoles
- Tetryl (trinitrophenylmethylnitramine) (CAS 479-45-8)
- TEX (4,10-Dinitro-2,6,8,12-tetraoxa-4,10-diazaisowurtzitane)
- TNAD (1,4,5,8-tetranitro-1,4,5,8-tetraazadecalin) (CAS 135877-16-6)
- TNAZ (1,3,3-trinitroazetidine) (CAS 97645-24-4)
- TNGU (SORGUYL or tetranitroglycoluril) (CAS 55510-03-7)
- TNP (1,4,5,8-tetranitro-pyridazino [4,5-d] pyridazine) (CAS 229176-04-9)
- Triazines
- Triazoles
- Energetic ionic materials melting between 343 K (70 °C) and 373 K (100 °C) and with detonation velocity exceeding 6800 m/s or detonation pressure exceeding 18 GPa (180 kbar)
- Explosives, not otherwise enumerated in this category or on the CCL in ECCN 1C608, with a detonation velocity exceeding 8700 m/s at maximum density or a detonation pressure exceeding 34 Gpa (340 kbar)
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- Any solid propellant with a theoretical specific impulse
- Propellants having a force constant of more than 1,200 kJ/Kg
- Propellants that can sustain a steady-state burning rate more than 38 mm/s under standard conditions (as measured in the form of an inhibited single strand) of 6.89 Mpa (68.9 bar) pressure and 294K (21 °C)
- Elastomer-modified cast double-based propellants with extensibility at maximum stress greater than 5% at 233 K (−40 °C)
- Other composite and composite modified double-base propellants
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- Alane (aluminum hydride) (CAS 7784-21-6)
- Carboranes; decaborane (CAS 17702-41-9); pentaborane and derivatives thereof (MT)
- Liquid high energy density fuels
- Metal fuels, and fuel or pyrotechnic mixtures in particle form whether spherical, atomized, spheroidal, flaked, or ground, manufactured from material consisting of 99%
- Fuel, pyrotechnic, or energetic mixtures having any nanosized aluminum, beryllium, boron, zirconium, magnesium, or titanium
- Pyrotechnic and pyrophoric materials
- Titanium subhydride (TiHn) of stoichiometry equivalent to n = 0.65-1.68
- Hydrocarbon fuels specially formulated for use in flame throwers or incendiary munitions containing metal stearates (e.g., octal) or palmitates, and M1, M2, and M3 thickeners
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- ADN (ammonium dinitramide or SR-12) (CAS 140456-78-6) (MT)
- AP (ammonium perchlorate) (CAS 7790-98-9) (MT)
- BDNPN (bis(2,2-dinitropropyl)nitrate) (CAS 28464-24-6
- DNAD (1,3-dinitro-1,3-diazetidine) (CAS 78246-06-7)
- HAN (Hydroxylammonium nitrate) (CAS 13465-08-2)
- HAP (hydroxylammonium perchlorate) (CAS 15588-62-2)
- HNF (Hydrazinium nitroformate) (CAS 20773-28-8) (MT)
- Hydrazine nitrate (CAS 37836-27-4) (MT)
- Hydrazine perchlorate (CAS 27978-54-7) (MT)
- Inhibited red fuming nitric acid (IRFNA) (CAS 8007-58-7) and liquid oxidizers comprised of or containing IRFNA or oxygen difluoride (MT for liquid oxidizers comprised of IRFNA)
- Perchlorates, chlorates, and chromates composited with powdered metal or other high energy fuel components
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- AMMO (azidomethylmethyloxetane and its polymers) (CAS 90683-29-7);
- BAMO-3-3 (bis(azidomethyl)oxetane and its polymers) (CAS 17607-20-4)
- BTTN (butanetriol trinitrate) (CAS 6659-60-5) (MT)
- FAMAO (3-difluoroaminomethyl-3-azidomethyloxetane) and its polymers
- FEFO (bis(2-fluoro-2,2-dinitroethyl)formal) (CAS 17003-79-1)
- GAP (glycidyl azide polymer) (CAS 143178-24-9) and its derivatives (MT for GAP)
- HTPB (hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene) with a hydroxyl functionality equal to or greater than 2.2 and less than or equal to 2.4, a hydroxyl value of less than 0.77 meq/g, and a viscosity at 30 °C of less than 47 poise (CAS 69102-90-5) (MT)
- 4,5 diazidomethyl-2-methyl-1,2,3-triazole (iso-DAMTR) (MT)
- NENAS (nitratoethylnitramine compounds)
- Poly-NIMMO (poly nitratomethylmethyoxetane, poly-NMMO, (poly[3-nitratomethyl-3-methyl oxetane]) (CAS 84051-81-0)
- PNO (Poly(3-nitratooxetane))
- TVOPA 1,2,3-Tris [1,2-bis(difluoroamino)ethoxy]propane; tris vinoxy propane adduct (CAS 53159-39-0)
- Polynitrorthocarbonates
- FPF-1 (poly-2,2,3,3,4,4-hexafluoro pentane-1,5-diolformal) (CAS 376-90-9)
- FPF-3 (poly-2,4,4,5,5,6,6-heptafluoro-2-trifluoromethyl-3-oxaheptane-1,7-diolformal)
- PGN (Polyglycidyl nitrate or poly(nitratomethyloxirane); poly-GLYN); (CAS 27814-48-8)
- N-methyl-p-nitroaniline (MT)
- Low (less than 10,000) molecular weight, alcohol-functionalized, poly(epichlorohydrin); poly(epichlorohydrindiol); and triol
- Dinitropropyl based plasticizers
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- Basic copper salicylate (CAS 62320-94-9)
- BHEGA (Bis-(2-hydroxyethyl)glycolamide) (CAS 17409-41-5)
- BNO (Butadienenitrile oxide);
- Ferrocene derivatives
- Lead beta-resorcylate (CAS 20936-32-7)
- Lead citrate (CAS 14450-60-3)
- Lead-copper chelates of beta-resorcylate or salicylates (CAS 68411-07-4)
- Lead maleate (CAS 19136-34-6)
- Lead salicylate (CAS 15748-73-9)
- Lead stannate (CAS 12036-31-6)
- MAPO (tris-1-(2-methyl) aziridinylphosphine oxide) (CAS 57-39-6); BOBBA-8 (bis(2-methyl aziridinyl)-2-(2-hydroxypropanoxy) propylamino phosphine oxide); and other MAPO derivatives (MT for MAPO)
- Methyl BAPO (Bis(2-methyl aziridinyl)methylaminophosphine oxide) (CAS 85068-72-0)
- 3-Nitraza-1,5-pentane diisocyanate (CAS 7406-61-9)
- Organo-metallic coupling agents
- PCDE (Polycyanodifluoroaminoethylene oxide)
- Certain bonding agents
- Superfine iron oxide (Fe2O3, hematite) with a specific surface area more than 250 m2/g and an average particle size of 0.003 micrometers or less (CAS 1309-37-1)
- TEPAN (HX-879) (tetraethylenepentaamineacrylonitrile) (CAS 68412-45-3); cyanoethylated polyamines and their salts (MT for TEPAN (HX-879))
- TEPANOL (HX-878) (tetraethy-lenepentaamineacrylonitrileglycidol) (CAS 68412-46-4); cyanoethylated polyamines adducted with glycidol and their salts (MT for TEPANOL (HX-878))
- TPB (triphenyl bismuth) (CAS 603-33-8) (MT)
- Tris (ethoxyphenyl) bismuth (TEPB) (CAS 90591-48-3)
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- BCMO (3,3-bis(chloromethyl)oxetane) (CAS 78-71-7)
- DADN (1,5-diacetyl-3,7-dinitro-1, 3, 5, 7-tetraazacyclooctane)
- Dinitroazetidine-t-butyl salt (CAS 125735-38-8)
- CL-20 precursors (any molecule containing hexaazaisowurtzitane) (e.g., HBIW (hexabenzylhexaazaisowurtzitane), TAIW (tetraacetyldibenzylhexa-azaisowurtzitane))
- TAT (1, 3, 5, 7-tetraacetyl-1, 3, 5, 7-tetraazacyclooctane) (CAS 41378-98-7)
- Tetraazadecalin (CAS 5409-42-7)
- 1,3,5-trichlorobenzene (CAS 108-70-3)
- 1,2,4-trihydroxybutane (1,2,4-butanetriol) (CAS 3068-00-6)
Category VI—Surface Vessels of War and Special Naval Equipment
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- Warships and other combatant vessels (i.e., battleships, aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, cruisers, corvettes, littoral combat ships, mine sweepers, mine hunters, mine countermeasure ships, dock landing ships, amphibious assault ships), Coast Guard Cutters or foreign-origin vessels specially designed to provide functions equivalent to those vessels listed above
- Other vessels
- Developmental vessels, and specially designed parts, components, accessories, and attachments therefor, funded by the Department of Defense via contract or other funding authorization
- Naval nuclear propulsion plants and prototypes, and special facilities for construction, support, and maintenance
- Vessel and naval equipment, parts, components, accessories, attachments, associated equipment, and systems
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles described in this category
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- High-speed air cushion vessels for transporting cargo and personnel, ship-to-shore and across a beach, with a payload over 25 tons
- Surface vessels integrated with nuclear propulsion plants or specially designed to support naval nuclear propulsion plants
- Vessels armed or specially designed to be used as a platform to deliver munitions or otherwise destroy or incapacitate targets (e.g., firing lasers, launching torpedoes, rockets, or missiles, or firing munitions greater than .50 caliber)
- Vessels incorporating any mission systems in this category
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- Hulls or superstructures, including support structures
- Systems that manage, store, create, distribute, conserve, and transfer energy, and specially designed parts and components
- Shipborne auxiliary systems for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) compartmentalization, over-pressurization and filtration systems, and specially designed parts and components
- Control and monitoring systems for autonomous unmanned vessels capable of on-board, autonomous perception and decision-making necessary for the vessel to navigate while avoiding fixed and moving hazards, and obeying rules-of-the road without human intervention
- Any machinery, device, component, or equipment, including production, testing and inspection equipment, and tooling, specially designed for plants or facilities in this category
- Parts, components, accessories, attachments, and equipment specially designed for integration of articles controlled by USML Categories II, IV, or XVIII or catapults for launching aircraft or arresting gear for recovering aircraft (MT for launcher mechanisms specially designed for rockets, space launch vehicles, or missiles capable of achieving a range greater than or equal to 300 km)
- Shipborne active protection systems (i.e., defensive systems that actively detect and track incoming threats and launch a ballistic, explosive, energy, or electromagnetic countermeasure(s) to neutralize the threat prior to contact with a vessel) and specially designed parts and components
- Minesweeping and mine hunting equipment (including mine countermeasures equipment deployed by aircraft), and specially designed parts and components
- Any part, component, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that is classified, contains classified software directly related to defense articles in this category, and is being developed using classified information
Category VII—Ground Vehicles
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- Armored combat ground vehicles
- Ground vehicles and trailers that are armed or are specially designed to be used as a firing or launch platform to deliver munitions or otherwise destroy or incapacitate targets
- Ground vehicles and trailers equipped with any mission systems in this category
- Armored support vehicles capable of off-road or amphibious use specially designed to transport or deploy personnel or materiel, or to move with other vehicles over land in close support of combat vehicles or troops
- Ground vehicle parts, components, accessories, attachments, associated equipment, and systems
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles in this category
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- Armored hulls, armored turrets, and turret rings
- Active protection systems (i.e., defensive systems that actively detect and track incoming threats and launch a ballistic, explosive, energy, or electromagnetic countermeasure(s) to neutralize the threat prior to contact with a vehicle) and specially designed parts and components therefor
- Composite armor parts and components specially designed for the vehicles in this category
- Spaced armor components and parts, including slat armor parts and components specially designed for the vehicles in this category
- Reactive armor parts and components
- Electromagnetic armor parts and components, including pulsed power specially designed parts and components
- Built in test equipment (BITE) to evaluate the condition of weapons or other mission systems for vehicles identified in this category, excluding equipment that provides diagnostics solely for a subsystem or component involved in the basic operation of the vehicle
- Gun mount, stabilization, turret drive, and automatic elevating systems, and specially designed parts and components
- Self-launching bridge components rated class 60 or above for deployment by vehicles in this category
- Suspension components
- Kits specially designed to convert a vehicle in this category into either an unmanned or a driver-optional vehicle
- Fire control computers, mission computers, vehicle management computers, integrated core processers, stores management systems, armaments control processors, vehicle-weapon interface units and computers
- Test or calibration equipment for the mission systems of the vehicles in this category, except those enumerated elsewhere
- Any part, component, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that is classified, contains classified software directly related to defense articles in this category, and is being developed using classified information.
Category VIII—Aircraft and Related Articles
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- Aircraft, whether manned, unmanned, remotely piloted, or optionally piloted (MT if the aircraft, excluding manned aircraft, has a range equal to or greater than 300 km)
- Launching and recovery equipment specially designed to allow an aircraft take off or land on a vessel described in Category VI
- Developmental aircraft funded by the Department of Defense via contract or other funding authorization, and specially designed parts, components, accessories, and attachments
- Parts, components, accessories, attachments, associated equipment and systems
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles in this category
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- Bombers
- Fighters, fighter bombers, and fixed-wing attack aircraft
- Turbofan- or turbojet-powered trainers used to train pilots for fighter, attack, or bomber aircraft
- Attack helicopters
- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) specially designed to incorporate a defense article
- Aircraft specially designed to incorporate a defense article for the purpose of performing an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance function
- Aircraft specially designed to incorporate a defense article for the purpose of performing an electronic warfare function; airborne warning and control aircraft; or aircraft specially designed to incorporate a defense article for the purpose of performing a command, control, and communications function
- Aircraft specially designed to incorporate a defense article for the purpose of performing an air refueling function
- Target drones
- Aircraft capable of being refueled in-flight including hover-in-flight refueling (HIFR)
- Aircraft with a roll-on/roll-off ramp, capable of airlifting payloads over 35,000 lbs. to ranges over 2,000 nm without being refueled in-flight, and landing onto short or unimproved airfields, other than L-100 and LM-100J aircraft
- U.S.-origin aircraft that bear an original military designation of A, B, E, F, K, M, P, R, or S
- Foreign-origin aircraft specially designed to provide functions equivalent to those of the aircraft listed in this category
- Aircraft that are armed or are specially designed to be used as a platform to deliver munitions or otherwise destroy targets (e.g., firing lasers, launching rockets, firing missiles, dropping bombs, or strafing)
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- Parts, components, accessories, and attachments specially designed for the following U.S.-origin aircraft: The B-1B, B-2, B-21, F-15SE, F/A-18 E/F, EA-18G, F-22, F-35, and future variants or U.S. Government technology demonstrators
- Rotorcraft gearboxes with internal pitch line velocities exceeding 20,000 feet per minute and able to operate 30 minutes with loss of lubrication without an emergency or auxiliary lubrication system
- Tail boom folding systems, stabilator folding systems or automatic rotor blade folding systems
- Wing folding systems, and specially designed parts and components
- On-aircraft arresting gear (e.g., tail hooks and drag chutes) and specially designed parts and components
- Bomb racks, missile or rocket launchers, missile rails, weapon pylons, pylon-to-launcher adapters, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) airborne launching systems, external stores support systems for ordnance or weapons, and specially designed parts and components
- Damage or failure-adaptive flight control systems, that do not consist solely of redundant internal circuitry
- Threat-adaptive autonomous flight control systems, where a “threat-adaptive autonomous flight control system” is a flight control system that, without input from the operator or pilot, adjusts the aircraft control or flight path to minimize risk caused by hostile threats
- Non-surface-based flight control systems and effectors (e.g., thrust vectoring from gas ports other than main engine thrust vector);
- Radar altimeters with output power management LPI (low probability of intercept) or signal modulation (i.e., frequency hopping, chirping, direct sequence-spectrum spreading) LPI capabilities (MT if for an aircraft, excluding manned aircraft, or missile that has a “range” equal to or greater than 300 km)
- Air-to-air refueling systems and hover-in-flight refueling (HIFR) systems, and specially designed parts and components
- Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight control systems and vehicle management systems with swarming capability (i.e. UAVs that operate autonomously (without human input) to interact with each other to avoid collisions, fly in formations, and are capable of adapting in real-time to changes in operational/threat environment, or, if weaponized, coordinate targeting) (MT if for an aircraft, excluding manned aircraft, or missile that has a “range” equal to or greater than 300 km)
- Lift fans, clutches, and roll posts for short take-off, vertical landing (STOVL) aircraft and specially designed parts and components for such lift fans and roll posts
- Integrated helmets incorporating optical sights or slewing devices, which include the ability to aim, launch, track, or manage munitions (e.g., Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems, Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems (JHMCS), Helmet Mounted Displays, Display and Sight Helmets (DASH)), and specially designed parts, components, accessories, and attachments
- Fire control computers, stores management systems, armaments control processors, and aircraft-weapon interface units and computers (e.g., AGM-88 HARM Aircraft Launcher Interface Computer (ALIC))
- Mission computers, vehicle management computers, and integrated core processers specially designed for aircraft controlled in this category
- Drive systems, flight control systems, and parts and components therefor, specially designed to function after impact of a 7.62mm or larger projectile
- Thrust reversers specially designed to be deployed in flight for aircraft controlled in this category
- Any part, component, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that is classified, contains classified software directly related to defense articles in this category, or is being developed using classified information.
- Variable speed gearboxes, where a “variable speed gearbox” has the ability to vary the gearbox output speed by mechanical means within the gearbox while the gearbox input speed from the engine or other source is constant, and is capable of varying output speed by 20% or greater and providing power to rotors, proprotors, propellers, propfans, or liftfans
- Electrical power or thermal management systems specially designed for an engine controlled in Category XIX
- Scale test models
- Full scale iron bird ground rigs used to test major aircraft systems
- Jigs, locating fixtures, templates, gauges, molds, dies, or caul plates
Category IX—Military Training Equipment and Training
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- Training equipment
- Simulators
- Technical data and defense services
- Commodities, software, and technical data subject to the EAR used in or with defense articles
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- Ground, surface, submersible, space, or towed airborne targets that have an infrared, radar, acoustic, magnetic, or thermal signature that mimic a specific defense article and are instrumented to provide hit/miss performance information for defense articles.
- Devices that are mockups of articles enumerated in this subchapter used for maintenance training or disposal training for ordnance enumerated in this subchapter, that reveal technical data or contain parts, components, accessories, or attachments controlled in this subchapter;
- Air combat maneuvering instrumentation and ground stations
- Physiological flight trainers for fighter aircraft or attack helicopters
- Radar trainers specially designed for training on radar controlled by USML Category XI
- Training devices specially designed to be attached to a crew station, mission system, or weapon of an article
- Anti-submarine warfare trainers
- Missile launch trainers
- Radar target generators
- Infrared scene generators
- Any training device that is classified, contains classified software directly related to defense articles, or is being developed using classified information
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- System specific simulators that replicate the operation of an individual crew station, a mission system, or a weapon of an end-item that is ITAR-controlled
- Software and associated databases not elsewhere enumerated that can be used to model or simulate Trainers, Battle management, Military test scenarios/models, or Effects of weapons
- Classified, Contain classified software directly related to defense articles, or Are being developed using classified information.
Category X—Personal Protective Equipment
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- Body armor providing a protection level equal to or greater than NIJ Type IV
- Personal protective clothing, equipment, or face paints specially designed to protect against or reduce detection by radar, IR, or other sensors at wavelengths greater than 900 nanometers
- Integrated helmets incorporating optical sights or slewing devices which include the ability to aim, launch, track, or manage munitions
- Helmets and helmet shells providing a protection level equal to or greater than NIJ Type IV
- Goggles, spectacles, visors, vision blocks, canopies, or filters for optical sights or viewers, employing other than common broadband absorptive dyes or UV inhibitors as a means of protection (e.g., narrow band filters/dyes or broadband limiters/coatings with high visible transparency), having an optical density greater than 3
- Developmental personal protective equipment and specially designed parts, components, accessories, and attachments therefor, developed for the U.S. Department of Defense via contract or other funding authorization
- Ceramic or composite plates that provide protection equal to or greater than NIJ Type IV
- Lenses, substrates, or filters “specially designed” for the articles in this category
- Materials and coatings specially designed for the articles in this category
- Any component, part, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that is classified, contains classified software directly related to defense articles in this category, or is being developed using classfied information
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles in this category
Category XI—Military Electronics
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- Underwater hardware, equipment, or systems
- Underwater acoustic countermeasures or counter-countermeasures systems or equipment
- Radar systems and equipment
- Electronic Combat (i.e., Electronic Warfare) systems and equipment
- Command, control, and communications (C3); command, control, communications, and computers (C4); command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR); and identification systems or equipment
- Developmental electronic equipment or systems funded by the Department of Defense via contract or other funding authorization
- Unattended ground sensor (UGS) systems or equipment
- Electronic sensor systems or equipment for non-acoustic antisubmarine warfare (ASW) or mine warfare (e.g., magnetic anomaly detectors (MAD), electric-field, electromagnetic induction)
- Electronic sensor systems or equipment for detection of concealed weapons, having a standoff detection range of greater than 45 m for personnel or detection of vehicle-carried weapons, not including concealed object detection equipment operating in the frequency range from 30 GHz to 3,000 GHz and having a spatial resolution of 0.1 milliradians up to and including 1 milliradians at a standoff distance of 100 m
- Test sets specially designed for testing defense articles
- Direction finding equipment for determining bearings to specific electromagnetic sources or terrain characteristics specially designed for defense articles in Category IV and VIII
- Electronic systems, equipment or software, not elsewhere enumerated, specially designed for intelligence purposes that collect, survey, monitor, or exploit, or analyze and produce information from, the electromagnetic spectrum (regardless of transmission medium), or for counteracting such activities
- Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and Programmable Logic Devices (PLD) programmed for defense articles
- Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) and populated circuit card assemblies for which the layout is specially designed for defense articles
- Multichip modules for which the pattern or layout is specially designed for defense articles
- Transmit/receive modules, transmit/receive monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), transmit modules, and transmit MMICs
- High-energy storage capacitors with a repetition rate of 6 discharges or more per minute and full energy life greater than or equal to 10,000 discharges, at greater than 0.2 Amps per Joule peak current
- Radio frequency circulators of any dimension equal to or less than one quarter ( 1⁄4 ) wavelength of the highest operating frequency and isolation greater than 30 dB
- Polarimeter that detects and measures polarization of radio frequency signals within a single pulse
- Digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) with RF instantaneous input bandwidth greater than 400 MHz, and 4 bit or higher resolution whose output signal is a translation of the input signal (e.g., changes in magnitude, time, frequency)
- Vacuum electronic devices
- Antenna, and specially designed parts and components
- Radomes or electromagnetic antenna windows
- Underwater sensors (acoustic vector sensors, hydrophones, or transducers) or projectors
- Tuners specially designed for systems and equipment
- Electronic assemblies and components, capable of operation at temperatures in excess of 125 °C and specially designed for UAVs or drones controlled by USML Category VIII, rockets, space launch vehicles (SLV), or missiles controlled by USML Category IV capable of achieving a range greater than or equal to 300 km (MT)
- Hybrid (combined analogue/digital) computers specially designed for modeling, simulation, or design integration of systems
- Chaff and flare rounds specially designed for the systems and equipment
- Parts, components, or accessories specially designed for an information assurance/information security system or radio controlled in this subchapter that modify its published properties (e.g., frequency range, algorithms, waveforms, CODECs, or modulation/demodulation schemes)
- Any part, component, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that is classified, contains classified software directly related to defense articles, or is being developed using classified information
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles
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- Active or passive acoustic array sensing systems or acoustic array equipment capable of real-time processing that survey or detect, and also track, localize (i.e., determine range and bearing), classify, or identify, surface vessels, submarines, other undersea vehicles, torpedoes, or mines
- Underwater single acoustic sensor system that distinguishes non-biologic tonals and locates the origin of the sound
- Non-acoustic systems that survey or detect, and also track, localize (i.e., determine range and bearing), classify, or identify, surface vessels, submarines, other undersea vehicles, torpedoes, or mines
- Acoustic modems, networks, and communications equipment with real-time adaptive compensation or employing Low Probability of Intercept (LPI)
- Low Frequency/Very Low Frequency (LF/VLF) electronic modems, routers, interfaces, and communications equipment, specially designed for submarine communications
- Autonomous systems and equipment that enable cooperative sensing and engagement by fixed (bottom mounted/seabed) or mobile Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
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- Airborne radar that maintains positional state of an object or objects of interest, other than weather phenomena, in a received radar signal through time
- Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) incorporating image resolution less than (better than) 0.3 m, or incorporating Coherent Change Detection (CCD) with geo-registration accuracy less than (better than) 0.3 m, not including concealed object detection equipment operating in the frequency range from 30 GHz to 3,000 GHz and having a spatial resolution of 0.1 milliradians up to and including 1 milliradians at a standoff distance of 100 m
- Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR)
- Radar that geodetically-locates (i.e., geodetic latitude, geodetic longitude, and geodetic height) with a target location error 50 (TLE50) less than or equal to 10 m at ranges greater than 1 km
- Any Ocean Surveillance Radar with an average-power-aperture product of greater than 50 Wm2
- Any ocean surveillance radar that transmits a waveform with an instantaneous bandwidth greater than 100 MHz and has an antenna rotation rate greater than 60 revolutions per minute (RPM)
- Air surveillance radar with free space detection of 1 square meter RCS target at 85 nmi or greater range, scaled to RCS values as RCS to the 1⁄4 power
- Air surveillance radar with free space detection of 1 square meter RCS target at an altitude of 65,000 feet and an elevation angle greater than 20 degrees (i.e., counter-battery)
- Air surveillance radar with multiple elevation beams, phase or amplitude monopulse estimation, or 3D height-finding
- Air surveillance radar with a beam solid angle less than or equal to 16 degrees 2 that performs free space tracking of 1 square meter RCS target at a range greater or equal to 25 nmi with revisit rate greater or equal to 1⁄3 Hz
- Instrumentation radar for anechoic test facility or outdoor range that maintains positional state of an object of interest in a received radar signal through time or provides measurement of RCS of a static target less than or equal to minus 10dBsm, or RCS of a dynamic target
- Radar incorporating pulsed operation with electronics steering of transmit beam in elevation and azimuth
- Radar with mode(s) for ballistic tracking or ballistic extrapolation to source of launch or impact point of articles controlled in USML Categories III, IV, or XV
- Active protection radar and missile warning radar with mode(s) implemented for detection of incoming munitions
- Over the horizon high frequency sky-wave (ionosphere) radar
- Radar that detects a moving object through a physical obstruction at distance greater than 0.2 m from the obstruction
- Radar having moving target indicator (MTI) or pulse-Doppler processing where any single Doppler filter provides a normalized clutter attenuation of greater than 60dB
- Radar having electronic protection or electronic counter-countermeasures (ECCM) other than manual gain control, automatic gain control, radio frequency selection, constant false alarm rate, and pulse repetition interval jitter
- Radar employing electronic attack (EA) mode(s) using the radar transmitter and antenna
- Radar employing electronic support (ES) mode(s) (i.e., the ability to use a radar system for ES purposes in one or more of the following: as a high-gain receiver, as a wide-bandwidth receiver, as a multi-beam receiver, or as part of a multi-point system)
- Radar employing non-cooperative target recognition (NCTR) (i.e., the ability to recognize a specific platform type without cooperative action of the target platform)
- Radar employing automatic target recognition (ATR) (i.e., recognition of target using structural features (e.g., tank versus car) of the target with system resolution better than (less than) 0.3 m)
- Radar that sends interceptor guidance commands or provides illumination keyed to an interceptor seeker
- Radar employing waveform generation for LPI other than frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) with linear ramp modulation
- Radar that sends and receives communications
- Radar that tracks or discriminates ballistic missile warhead from debris or countermeasures
- Bi-static/multi-static radar that exploits greater than 125 kHz bandwidth and is lower than 2 GHz center frequency to passively detect or track using radio frequency (RF) transmissions (e.g., commercial radio, television stations)
- Radar target generators, projectors, or simulators, specially designed for radars controlled by this category
- Radar and laser radar systems specially designed for defense articles in Category IV and VIII (MT if specially designed for rockets, space launch vehicles, missiles, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles capable of delivering a payload of at least 500 kg to a range of at least 300 km)
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- ES systems and equipment that search for, intercept and identify, or locate sources of intentional or unintentional electromagnetic energy specially designed to provide immediate threat detection, recognition, targeting, planning, or conduct of future operations
- Systems and equipment that detect and automatically discriminate acoustic energy emanating from weapons fire (e.g., gunfire, artillery, rocket propelled grenades, or other projectiles), determining location or direction of weapons fire in less than two seconds from receipt of event signal, and able to operate on-the-move (e.g., operating on personnel, land vehicles, sea vessels, or aircraft while in motion)
- Systems and equipment specially designed to introduce extraneous or erroneous signals into radar, infrared based seekers, electro-optic based seekers, radio communication receivers, navigation receivers, or that otherwise hinder the reception, operation, or effectiveness of adversary electronics (e.g., active or passive electronic attack, electronic countermeasure, electronic counter-countermeasure equipment, jamming, and counter jamming equipment)
Category XII—Fire Control, Laser, Imaging, and Guidance Equipment
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- Fire control, aiming, detection, guidance, and tracking systems
- Laser systems and end items
- Imaging systems or end items
- Guidance and navigation systems or end items
- Lasers specially designed for articles
- Laser stacked arrays specially designed for articles
- Night vision or infrared cameras (e.g., camera core) specially designed for articles
- Infrared focal plane arrays specially designed for articles
- Charge multiplication focal plane arrays exceeding 50 mA/W for any wavelength exceeding 760 nm and specially designed for articles
- Second generation and greater image intensifier tubes specially designed for articles
- Inertial measurement units specially designed for articles (MT for systems incorporating accelerometers specified or gyroscopes or angular rate sensors specified)
- GNSS security devices (e.g., Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Modules (SAASM), Security Modules (SM), and Auxiliary Output Chips (AOC))
- Accelerometers having a bias repeatability of less (better) than 10 µg and a scale factor repeatability of less (better) than 10 parts per million, or capable of measuring greater than 100,000 g (MT)
- Gyroscopes or angular rate sensors having an angle random walk of less (better) than 0.001 degrees per square root hour or
- Mechanical gyroscopes or rate sensors having a bias repeatability less (better) than 0.0015 degrees per hour (MT if having a rated drift stability of less than 0.5 degrees (1 sigma or rms) per hour in a 1 g environment or specified to function at acceleration levels greater than 100 g)
- Optical sensors having a spectral filter specially designed for systems or equipment controlled in Category XI or optical sensor assemblies that provide threat warning or tracking for systems or equipment controlled in Category XI
- Infrared focal plane array read-out integrated circuits (ROICs) specially designed for articles
- Integrated dewar cooler assemblies specially designed for articles in this subchapter, with or without an infrared focal plane array, and specially designed parts and components
- Gimbals specially designed for articles in this category
- Infrared focal plane array Joule-Thomson (JT) self-regulating cryostats specially designed for articles
- Infrared lenses, mirrors, beam splitters or combiners, filters, and treatments and coatings, specially designed for articles controlled in this category;
- (19) Drive, control, signal, or image processing electronics, specially designed for articles controlled in this category;
- Near-to-eye displays (e.g., micro-displays) specially designed for articles controlled in this category
- Resonators, receivers, transmitters, modulators, gain media, drive electronics, and frequency converters, specially designed for laser systems controlled in this category
- Two-dimensional infrared scene projector emitter arrays (i.e., resistive arrays) specially designed for infrared scene generators controlled in Category IX
- Any part, component, accessory, attachment, or associated equipment that is classified, contains classified software, is manufactured using classified production data, or is being developed using classified information
- Developmental image intensifier tubes, focal plane arrays, read-out-integrated circuits, accelerometers, gyroscopes, angular rate sensors, and inertial measurement units funded by the Department of Defense
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- Fire control systems
- Electronic or optical weapon positioning, laying, or spotting systems
- Laser spot trackers or laser spot detection, location, or imaging systems, with an operational wavelength shorter than 400 nm or longer than 710 nm and that are for laser target designators or coded target markers
- Bomb sights or bombing computers
- Electro-optical systems that automatically detect and locate ordnance launch, blast, or fire
- Electro-optical ordnance guidance systems
- Missile or ordnance electro-optical tracking systems
- Remote wind-sensing systems specially designed for ballistic-corrected aiming
- Helmet mounted display (HMD) systems or end items (e.g., Combat Vehicle Crew HMD, Mounted Warrior HMD, Integrated Helmet Assembly Subsystem, Drivers Head Tracked Vision System), other than such items controlled in Category VIII
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- Laser target designators or coded target markers, that mediate the delivery of ordnance to a target
- Target illumination systems having a variable beam divergence and a laser output wavelength exceeding 710 nm, to artificially light an area to search, locate, or track a target
- Laser rangefinders
- Systems specially designed to use laser energy with an output wavelength exceeding 710 nm for exploiting differential target-background retroreflectance in order to detect optical/electro-optical equipment (e.g., optical augmentation systems)
- Light detection and ranging (LIDAR), laser detection and ranging (LADAR), or range-gated systems, specially designed for a military end user
- Developmental lasers or laser systems funded by the Department of Defense via contract or other funding authorization
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- Binoculars, bioculars, monoculars, goggles, or head or helmet-mounted imaging systems (including video-based articles having a separate near-to-eye display)
- Weapon sights (i.e., with a reticle) or aiming or imaging systems (e.g., clip-on), specially designed to mount to a weapon or to withstand weapon shock or recoil, with or without an integrated viewer or display
- Electro-optical reconnaissance, surveillance, target detection, or target acquisition systems
- Infrared search and track (IRST) systems
- Distributed aperture systems having a peak response wavelength exceeding 710 nm specially designed for articles
- Infrared imaging systems
- Terahertz imaging systems
- Systems or equipment, incorporating an ultraviolet or infrared (IR) beacon or emitter, specially designed for Combat Identification
- Systems that project radiometrically calibrated scenes at a frame rate greater than 30 Hz directly into the entrance aperture of an electro-optical or infrared (EO/IR) sensor controlled in this subchapter within either the spectral band exceeding 10 nm but not exceeding 400 nm, or the spectral band exceeding 900 nm but not exceeding 30,000 nm
- Developmental electro-optical, infrared, or terahertz systems funded by the Department of Defense
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- Guidance or navigation systems (e.g., inertial navigation systems, inertial reference units, attitude and heading reference systems)
- Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiving equipment
- GNSS anti-jam systems specially designed for use with an antenna described in Category XI
- Mobile relative gravimeters having automatic motion compensation with an in-service accuracy of less (better) than 0.4 mGal (MT if designed or modified for airborne or marine use and having a time to steady-state registration of two minutes or less)
- Mobile gravity gradiometers having an accuracy of less (better) than 10 Eotvos squared per radian per second for any component of the gravity gradient tensor, and having a spatial gravity wavelength resolution of 50 m or less (MT if designed or modified for airborne or marine use)
- Developmental guidance or navigation systems funded by the Department of Defense (MT if designed or modified for rockets, missiles, SLVs, drones, or unmanned aerial vehicle systems capable of a range equal to or greater than 300 km)
Category XIII— Materials and Miscellaneous Articles
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- Information security or information assurance systems and equipment, cryptographic devices, software, and components
- Materials
- Armor (e.g., organic, ceramic, metallic) and armor materials
- Any article enumerated in this category that is classified, contains classified software,or is being developed using classified information
- Concealment and deception equipment
- Energy conversion devices not otherwise enumerated in this category
- Signature reduction software and technical data
- Equipment, materials, coatings, and treatments not elsewhere specified
- Tooling and equipment
- Technical data directly related to the defense articles in this category
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- Military or intelligence cryptographic (including key management) systems, equipment, assemblies, modules, integrated circuits, components, and software (including their cryptographic interfaces) capable of maintaining secrecy or confidentiality of information or information systems, including equipment or software for tracking, telemetry, and control (TT&C) encryption and decryption
- Military or intelligence cryptographic (including key management) systems, equipment, assemblies, modules, integrated circuits, components, and software (including their cryptographic interfaces) capable of generating spreading or hopping codes for spread spectrum systems or equipment
- Military or intelligence cryptanalytic systems, equipment, assemblies, modules, integrated circuits, components and software
- Military or intelligence systems, equipment, assemblies, modules, integrated circuits, components, or software (including all previous or derived versions) authorized to control access to or transfer data between different security domains as listed on the Unified Cross Domain Management Office (UCDMO) Control List (UCL)
- Ancillary equipment specially designed for articles in this category
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- Ablative materials fabricated or semi-fabricated from advanced composites (e.g., silica, graphite, carbon, carbon/carbon, and boron filaments) specially designed for the articles in Category IV or XV
- Carbon/carbon billets and preforms that are reinforced with continuous unidirectional fibers, tows, tapes, or woven cloths in three or more dimensional planes
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- Spaced armor with Em greater than 1.4 and meeting NIJ Level III or better
- Transparent armor having Em greater than or equal to 1.3 or having Em less than 1.3 and meeting and exceeding NIJ Level III standards with areal density less than or equal to 40 pounds per square foot
- Transparent ceramic plate greater than 1⁄4 inch-thick and larger than 8 inches × 8 inches, excluding glass, for transparent armor
- Non-transparent ceramic plate or blanks, greater than 1⁄4 inches thick and larger than 8 inches × 8 inches for transparent armor. This includes spinel and aluminum oxynitride (ALON)
- Composite armor with Em greater than 1.4 and meeting or exceeding NIJ Level III
- Metal laminate armor with Em greater than 1.4 and meeting or exceeding NIJ Level III
- Developmental armor funded by the Department of Defense via contract or other funding authorization
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- Polymers loaded with carbonyl iron powder, ferrites, iron whiskers, fibers, flakes, or other magnetic additives having a surface resistivity of less than 5000 ohms/square and greater than 10 ohms/square with electrical isotropy of less than 5%
- Multi-layer camouflage systems specially designed to reduce detection of platforms or equipment in the infrared or ultraviolet frequency spectrums
- High temperature (greater than 300 °F operation) ceramic or magnetic radar absorbing material (RAM) specially designed for use on defense articles or military items subject to the EAR
- Broadband (greater than 30% bandwidth) lightweight (less than 2 lbs/sq ft) magnetic radar absorbing material (RAM) specially designed for use on defense articles or military items subject to the EAR
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- Fuel cells specially designed for platforms or soldier systems specified in this category
- Thermal engines specially designed for platforms or soldier systems specified in this category
- Thermal batteries (MT if designed or modified for rockets, SLVs, missiles, drones, or UAVs capable of achieving a range equal to or greater than 300 km
- Thermionic generators specially designed for platforms or soldier systems enumerated in this category
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- Software associated with the measurement or modification of system signatures for defense articles to reduce detectability or observability
- Software for design of low-observable platforms
- Software for design, analysis, prediction, or optimization of signature management solutions for defense articles
- Infrared signature measurement or prediction software for defense articles or radar cross section measurement or prediction software
- Signature management technical data, including codes and algorithms for defense articles to reduce detectability or observability
- Signature control design methodology for defense articles to reduce detectability or observability
- Technical data for use of micro-encapsulation or micro-spheres to reduce infrared, radar, or visual detection of platforms or equipment
- Multi-layer camouflage system technical data for reducing detection of platforms or equipment
- Multi-spectral surface treatment technical data for modifying infrared, visual or radio frequency signatures of platforms or equipment
- Technical data for modifying visual, electro-optical, radiofrequency, electric, magnetic, electromagnetic, or wake signatures (e.g., low probability of intercept (LPI) techniques, methods or applications) of defense platforms or equipment through shaping, active, or passive techniques
- Technical data for modifying acoustic signatures of defense platforms or equipment through shaping, active, or passive techniques
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- Tooling and equipment specially designed for production of low observable (LO) components
- Portable platform signature field repair validation equipment (e.g., portable optical interrogator that validates integrity of a repair to a signature reduction structure)
Category XIV—Toxicological Agents, Including Chemical Agents, Biological Agents, and Associated Equipment
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- Nerve agents
- Amiton: O,O-Diethyl S-[2(diethylamino)ethyl] phosphorothiolate and corresponding alkylated or protonated salts (CAS 78-53-5)
- Vesicant agents
- Incapacitating agents
- Chemical warfare agents not enumerated above adapted for use in war to produce casualties in humans or animals, degrade equipment, or damage crops or the environment
- Genetically modified biological agents
- Biological agent or biologically derived substances controlled in ECCNs 1C351, 1C353, or 1C354
- Chemical agent binary precursors and key precursors
- Defoliants
- Parts, components, accessories, attachments, associated equipment, materials, and systems
- Antibodies, recombinant protective antigens, polynucleotides, biopolymers, or biocatalysts (including their expression vectors, viruses, plasmids, or cultures of specific cells modified to produce them)
- Vaccines exclusively funded by a Department of Defense contract
- Modeling or simulation tools for chemical or biological weapons design, development, or employment developed or produced under a Department of Defense contract or other funding authorization (e.g., the Department of Defense's HPAC, SCIPUFF, and the Joint Effects Model (JEM))
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles in this category
- Developmental countermeasures or sorbents funded by the Department of Defense via contract or other funding authorization
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- O-Alkyl (equal to or less than C10, including cycloalkyl) alkyl (Methyl, Ethyl, n-Propyl or Isopropyl) phosphonofluoridates, such as: Sarin (GB): O-Isopropyl methylphosphonofluoridate (CAS 107-44-8) (CWC Schedule 1A); and Soman (GD): O-Pinacolyl methylphosphonofluoridate (CAS 96-64-0) (CWC Schedule 1A)
- O-Alkyl (equal to or less than C10, including cycloalkyl) N,N-dialkyl (Methyl, Ethyl, n-Propyl or Isopropyl) phosphoramidocyanidates, such as: Tabun (GA): O-Ethyl N, N-dimethylphosphoramidocyanidate (CAS 77-81-6) (CWC Schedule 1A)
- O-Alkyl (H or equal to or less than C10, including cycloalkyl) S-2-dialkyl (Methyl, Ethyl, n-Propyl or Isopropyl) aminoethyl alkyl (Methyl, Ethyl, n-Propyl or Isopropyl) phosphonothiolates and corresponding alkylated and protonated salts, such as VX: O-Ethyl S-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methyl phosphonothiolate (CAS 50782-69-9) (CWC Schedule 1A)
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- Sulfur mustards, such as: 2-Chloroethylchloromethylsulfide (CAS 2625-76-5) (CWC Schedule 1A); Bis(2-chloroethyl)sulfide (HD) (CAS 505-60-2) (CWC Schedule 1A); Bis(2-chloroethylthio)methane (CAS 63839-13-6) (CWC Schedule 1A); 1,2-bis (2-chloroethylthio)ethane (CAS 3563-36-8) (CWC Schedule 1A); 1,3-bis (2-chloroethylthio)-n-propane (CAS 63905-10-2) (CWC Schedule 1A); 1,4-bis (2-chloroethylthio)-n-butane (CWC Schedule 1A); 1,5-bis (2-chloroethylthio)-n-pentane (CWC Schedule 1A); Bis (2-chloroethylthiomethyl)ether (CWC Schedule 1A); Bis (2-chloroethylthioethyl)ether (CAS 63918-89-8) (CWC Schedule 1A)
- Lewisites, such as: 2-chlorovinyldichloroarsine (CAS 541-25-3) (CWC Schedule 1A); Tris (2-chlorovinyl) arsine (CAS 40334-70-1) (CWC Schedule 1A); Bis (2-chlorovinyl) chloroarsine (CAS 40334-69-8) (CWC Schedule 1A)
- Nitrogen mustards, or their protonated salts
- Ethyldichloroarsine (ED) (CAS 598-14-1)
- Methyldichloroarsine (MD) (CAS 593-89-5)
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- 3-Quinuclindinyl benzilate (BZ) (CAS 6581-06-2) (CWC Schedule 2A)
- Diphenylchloroarsine (DA) (CAS 712-48-1)
- Diphenylcyanoarsine (DC) (CAS 23525-22-6)
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- Known to or are reasonably expected to result in an increase in persistence in a field environment (i.e., resistance to oxygen, UV damage, temperature extremes, arid conditions, or decontamination processes)
- Known to or are reasonably expected to result in an increase in the ability to defeat or overcome standard detection methods, personnel protection, natural or acquired host immunity, host immune response, or response to standard medical countermeasures
- Known to or are reasonably expected to result in an increase in dispersal characteristics (e.g., reduced susceptibility to shear forces, optimized electrostatic charges)
- Bacillus anthracis
- Botulinum neurotoxin producing species of Clostridium
- Burkholderia mallei
- Burkholderia pseudomallei
- Ebola virus
- Foot-and-mouth disease virus
- Francisella tularensis
- Marburg virus
- Variola major virus (Smallpox virus)
- Variola minor virus (Alastrim)
- Yersinia pestis
- Rinderpest virus
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- Physically modified, formulated, or produced as 1-10 micron particle size
- Physically modified, formulated, or produced as particle-absorbed or combined with nano-particles
- Physically modified, formulated, or produced as having coatings/surfactants
- Physically modified, formulated, or produced as by microencapsulation
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- Alkyl (Methyl, Ethyl, n-Propyl or Isopropyl) phosphonyl difluorides, such as: DF: Methyl Phosphonyldifluoride (CAS 676-99-3) (CWC Schedule 1B); Methylphosphinyldifluoride (CAS 753-59-3) (CWC Schedule 2B)
- O-Alkyl (H or equal to or less than C10, including cycloalkyl) O-2-dialkyl (methyl, ethyl, n-Propyl or isopropyl) aminoethyl alkyl (methyl, ethyl, N-propyl or isopropyl) phosphonite and corresponding alkylated and protonated salts, such as QL: O-Ethyl-2-di-isopropylaminoethyl methylphosphonite (CAS 57856-11-8) (CWC Schedule 1B)
- Chlorosarin: O-Isopropyl methylphosphonochloridate (CAS 1445-76-7) (CWC Schedule 1B)
- Chlorosoman: O-Pinacolyl methylphosphonochloridate (CAS 7040-57-5) (CWC Schedule 1B)
- Methylphosphonyl dichloride (CAS 676-97-1) (CWC Schedule 2B); Methylphosphinyldichloride (CAS 676-83-5) (CWC Schedule 2B)
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- 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (CAS 93-76-5) mixed with 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (CAS 94-75-7) (Agent Orange (CAS 39277-47-9))
- Butyl 2-chloro-4-fluorophenoxyacetate (LNF)
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- Any equipment for the dissemination, dispersion, or testing of articles controlled in this category
- Any equipment, containing reagents, algorithms, coefficients, software, libraries, spectral databases, or alarm set point levels developed under a Department of Defense contract or other funding authorization, for the detection, identification, warning, or monitoring
- For individual protection or collective protection against the articles controlled in this category
- Chemical Agent Resistant Coatings that have been qualified to military specifications (MIL-PRF-32348, MIL-DTL-64159, MIL-C-46168, or MIL-DTL-53039)
- Any part, component, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that is classified, is manufactured using classified production data, or is being developed using classified information
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- When exclusively funded by a Department of Defense contract for detection of the biological agents of this category even if naturally occurring
- Joint Biological Agent Identification and Diagnostic System (JBAIDS) Freeze Dried reagents listed by JRPD-ASY-No and Description respectively
- Critical Reagent Polymerase (CRP) Chain Reactions (PCR) assay kits with Catalog-ID and Catalog-ID Product respectively
- Critical Reagent Program Antibodies with Catalog ID and Product respectively
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- Recombinant Botulinum ToxinA/B Vaccine
- Recombinant Plague Vaccine
- Trivalent Filovirus Vaccine
- Vaccines specially designed for the sole purpose of protecting against biological agents and biologically derived substances identified in this category
Category XV— Spacecraft and Related Articles
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- Spacecraft, including satellites and space vehicles, whether designated developmental, experimental, research, or scientific, or having a commercial, civil, or military end-use, that:
- Ground control systems or training simulators, specially designed for telemetry, tracking, and control (TT&C) of spacecraft in this category
- Spacecraft parts, components, accessories, attachments, equipment, or systems
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles in this category
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- Are specially designed to mitigate effects (e.g., scintillation) of or for detection of a nuclear detonation
- Autonomously detect and track moving ground, airborne, missile, or space objects other than celestial bodies, in real-time using imaging, infrared, radar, or laser systems
- Conduct signals intelligence (SIGINT) or measurement and signatures intelligence (MASINT)
- Are specially designed to be used in a constellation or formation that when operated together, in essence or effect, form a virtual satellite (e.g., functioning as if one satellite) with the characteristics o functions of other items in this category
- Are anti-satellite or anti-spacecraft (e.g., kinetic, RF, laser, charged particle)
- Have space-to-ground weapons systems (e.g., kinetic or directed energy)
- Have any of the following electro-optical remote sensing capabilities or characteristics
- Have radar remote sensing capabilities or characteristics (e.g., active electronically scanned array (AESA), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), ultra-wideband SAR), except those having a center frequency equal to or greater than 1 GHz but less than or equal to 10 GHz and having a bandwidth less than 300 MHz
- Provide Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) signals
- Autonomously perform collision avoidance
- Are sub-orbital, incorporate propulsion systems described in this category or Category IV and are specially designed for atmospheric entry or re-entry
- Are specially designed to provide inspection or surveillance of another spacecraft, or service another spacecraft via grappling or docking
- Are classified, contain classified software or hardware, are manufactured using classified production data, or are being developed using classified information
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- Antenna systems specially designed for spacecraft
- Space-qualified optics (i.e., lens, mirror or membrane)
- Space-qualified focal plane arrays (FPA) having a peak response in the wavelength range exceeding 900nm and readout integrated circuit (ROIC), whether separate or integrated, specially designed
- Space-qualified mechanical (i.e., active) cryocooler or active cold finger systems, and associated control electronics specially designed
- Space-qualified active vibration suppression systems, including active isolation and active dampening systems, and associated control electronics specially designed
- Optical bench assemblies specially designed to enable spacecraft to meet or exceed the parameters described in this category
- Space-qualified kinetic or directed-energy systems (e.g., RF, laser, charged particle) specially designed for spacecraft in this category, and specially designed parts and components therefor (e.g., power conditioning and beam-handling/switching, propagation, tracking, and pointing equipment)
- Space-qualified cesium, rubidium, hydrogen maser, or quantum (e.g., based upon Al, Hg, Yb, Sr, Be Ions) atomic clocks, and specially designed parts and components
- Attitude determination and control systems, and specially designed parts and components therefor, that provide a spacecraft's geolocation accuracy, without using Ground Location Points
- Space-based systems, and specially designed parts and components
- Thrusters (e.g., spacecraft or rocket engines) using bi-propellants or mono-propellant that provide greater than 150 lbf (i.e., 667.23 N) vacuum thrust (MT for rocket motors or engines having a total impulse capacity equal to or greater than 8.41 × 10^5 newton seconds)
- Control moment gyroscope (CMG) specially designed for spacecraft
- Space-qualified monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC) that combine transmit and receive (T/R) functions on a single die
- Space-qualified oscillator for radar in paragraph (a) of this category with phase noise less than −120 dBc/Hz + (20 log10(RF) (in GHz)) measured at 2 KHz*RF (in GHz) from carrier
- Space-qualified star tracker or star sensor with angular accuracy less than or equal to 1 arcsec (1-Sigma) per star coordinate, and a tracking rate equal to or greater than 3.0 deg/sec, and specially designed parts and components
- Primary, secondary, or hosted payload that performs any of the functions described in this category
- Secondary or hosted payload, and specially designed parts and components therefor, developed with Department of Defense-funding
- Spacecraft heat shields or heat sinks specially designed for atmospheric entry or re-entry, and specially designed parts and components therefor (MT if usable in rockets, SLVs, missiles, drones, or UAVs capable of delivering a payload of at least 500 kg to a range of at least 300 km)
- Equipment modules, stages, or compartments that incorporate propulsion systems described in paragraph (e) of this category or Category IV(d)(1)-(6) of this section, and can be separated or jettisoned from another spacecraft
- Any part, component, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that is classified, contains classified software, or is being developed using classified information
Category XVI—Nuclear Weapons Related Articles
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- Modeling or simulation tools that model or simulate the environments generated by nuclear detonations or the effects of these environments on systems, subsystems, components, structures, or humans
- Parts, components, accessories, attachments, associated equipment, and production, testing, and inspection equipment and tooling, specially designed for the articles in this category
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles described in this category
- Commodities, software, and technical data subject to the EAR used in or with defense articles
Category XVII—Classified Articles, Technical Data, and Defense Services Not Otherwise Enumerated
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- All articles, and technical data and defense services relating thereto, that are classified in the interests of national security and that are not otherwise enumerated on the USML
Category XVIII—Directed Energy Weapons
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- Directed energy weapons
- Use any non-acoustic technique such as lasers (including continuous wave or pulsed lasers), particle beams, particle accelerators that project a charged or neutral particle beam, high power radio-frequency (RF), or high pulsed power or high average power radio frequency beam transmitters
- Systems or equipment specially designed to detect, identify, or provide defense against articles specified in this category
- Components, parts, accessories, attachments, systems or associated equipment specially designed for any of the articles in this category
- Developmental directed energy weapons funded by the Department of Defense via contract or other funding authorization, and specially designed parts and components
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles enumerated in paragraphs this category;
- Commodities, software, and technology subject to the EAR used in or with defense articles controlled in this category.
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- Systems or equipment that, other than as a result of incidental, accidental, or collateral effect
- Degrade, destroy or cause mission-abort of a target
- Disturb, disable, or damage electronic circuitry, sensors or explosive devices remotely
- Deny area access
- Cause lethal effects
- Cause ocular disruption or blindness
Category XIX—Gas Turbine Engines and Associated Equipment
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- Turbofan and Turbojet engines (including those that are technology demonstrators, developmental engines, or variable cycle engines) capable of 15,000 lbf (66.7 kN) of thrust or greater
- Turboshaft and Turboprop engines (including those that are technology demonstrators or developmental engines)
- Gas turbine engines (including technology demonstrators, developmental engines, and variable cycle engines) specially designed for unmanned aerial vehicle systems controlled in this subchapter, cruise missiles, or target drones
- GE38, AGT1500, CTS800, MT7, T55, HPW3000, GE3000, T408, and T700 engines
- Digital engine control systems (e.g., Full Authority Digital Engine Controls (FADEC) and Digital Electronic Engine Controls (DEEC)) specially designed for gas turbine engines controlled in this category
- Parts, components, accessories, attachments, associated equipment, and systems
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles described in this category and classified technical data directly related to items controlled in ECCNs 9A619, 9B619, 9C619, and 9D619 and defense services using the classified technical data
- Commodities, software, and technology subject to the EAR used in or with defense articles controlled in this category
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- With or specially designed for thrust augmentation (afterburner)
- Thrust or exhaust nozzle vectoring
- Parts or components controlled in paragraph (f)(6) of this category
- Specially designed for sustained 30 second inverted flight or negative g maneuver
- Specially designed for high power extraction (greater than 50 percent of engine thrust at altitude) at altitudes greater than 50,000 feet
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- Capable of 2000 mechanical shp (1491 kW) or greater and specially designed with oil sump sealing when the engine is in the vertical position
- Capable of a specific power of 225 shp/(lbm/sec) or greater and specially designed for armament gas ingestion and non-civil transient maneuvers, where specific power is defined as maximum takeoff shaft horsepower (shp) divided by compressor inlet flow (lbm/sec)
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- Specially designed for the following U.S.-origin engines (and military variants thereof): F101, F107, F112, F118, F119, F120, F135, F136, F414, F415, and J402
- Hot section components (i.e., combustion chambers and liners; high pressure turbine blades, vanes, disks and related cooled structure; cooled intermediate pressure turbine blades, vanes, disks and related cooled structures; cooled low pressure turbine blades, vanes, disks and related cooled structures; cooled shaft-driving power turbine blades, vanes, disks and related cooled structures; cooled augmenters; and cooled nozzles) specially designed for gas turbine engines controlled in this category
- Uncooled turbine blades, vanes, disks, and tip shrouds specially designed for gas turbine engines controlled in this category
- Combustor cowls, diffusers, domes, and shells specially designed for gas turbine engines controlled in this category
- Engine monitoring systems (i.e., prognostics, diagnostics, and health) specially designed for gas turbine engines and components controlled in this category
- Any part, component, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that is classified, contains classified software directly related to defense articles, or is being developed using classified information
- Investment casting cores, core dies, or wax pattern dies for parts or components enumerated in this category
- Pressure gain combustors specially designed for engines controlled in this category, and specially designed parts and components
- Three-stream fan systems, specially designed for gas turbine engines controlled in this Category, that allow the movement of airflow between the streams to control fan pressure ratio or bypass ratio (by means other than use of fan corrected speed or the primary nozzle area to change the fan pressure ratio or bypass ratio), and specially designed parts, components, accessories, and attachments
- High pressure compressors, specially designed for gas turbine engines controlled in this Category, with core-driven bypass streams that have a pressure ratio greater than one, occurring across any section of the bypass duct, and specially designed parts, components, accessories, and attachment
- Intermediate compressors of a three-spool compression system, specially designed for gas turbine engines controlled in this Category, with an intermediate spool-driven bypass stream that has a pressure ratio greater than one, occurring across any section of the bypass duct, and specially designed parts, components, accessories, and attachments
- Any of the following equipment if specially designed for a defense article described in paragraph (f)(1): Jigs, locating fixtures, templates, gauges, molds, dies, caul plates, or bellmouths
Category XX—Submersible Vessels and Related Articles
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- Submarines specially designed for military use;
- Mine countermeasure vehicles
- Anti-submarine warfare vehicles
- Armed or are specially designed to be used as a platform to deliver munitions or otherwise destroy or incapacitate targets (e.g., firing torpedoes, launching rockets, firing missiles, deploying mines, deploying countermeasures) or deploy military payloads
- Swimmer delivery vehicles specially designed for the deployment, recovery, or support of swimmers or divers from submarines
- Submersible and semi-submersible vessels integrated with nuclear propulsion systems
- Submersible and semi-submersible vessels equipped with any mission systems
- Developmental vessels funded by the Department of Defense via contract or other funding authorization
- Naval nuclear propulsion plants and prototypes, and special facilities for construction, support, and maintenance
- Electric motors specially designed for submarines
- Parts, components, accessories, attachments, and associated equipment, including production, testing, and inspection equipment and tooling, specially designed for any of the articles in this category
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles described in this category
- Commodities, software, and technical data subject to the EAR used in or with defense articles
Category XXI—Articles, Technical Data, and Defense Services Not Otherwise Enumerated
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- Any article not enumerated on the USML may be included in this category until such time as the appropriate USML category is amended.
- Technical data and defense services directly related to the defense articles covered in this category
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The decision on whether any article may be included in this category, and the designation of the defense article as not Significant Military Equipment, shall be made by the Director, Office of Defense Trade Controls Policy
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