Category VI
Surface Vessels of War and Special Naval Equipment
Paragraphs marked SME are Significant Military Equipment.
| Paragraph | Text |
|---|---|
| (a) | 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 (with or equivalent to those with U.S. designations WHEC, WMEC, WMSL, or WPB for the purpose of this subchapter), or foreign-origin vessels specially designed to provide functions equivalent to those of the vessels listed above; SME |
| (b) | Other vessels not controlled in paragraph (a) of this category, as follows: |
| (1) | High-speed air cushion vessels for transporting cargo and personnel, ship-to-shore and across a beach, with a payload over 25 tons; |
| (2) | Surface vessels integrated with nuclear propulsion plants or specially designed to support naval nuclear propulsion plants; |
| (3) | 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); or |
| (4) | Vessels incorporating any mission systems controlled under this subchapter. |
| (c) | Developmental vessels, and specially designed parts, components, accessories, and attachments therefor, funded by the Department of Defense via contract or other funding authorization. |
| (d) | [Reserved] |
| (e) | Naval nuclear propulsion plants and prototypes, and special facilities for construction, support, and maintenance therefor(see also § 120.5(c) of this subchapter for nuclear related controls). SME |
| (f) | Vessel and naval equipment, parts, components, accessories, attachments, associated equipment, and systems, as follows: |
| (1) | Hulls or superstructures, including support structures therefor, that: |
| (i) | Are specially designed for any vessels controlled in paragraph (a) of this category; |
| (ii) | Have armor, active protection systems, or developmental armor systems; or |
| (2) | Systems that manage, store, create, distribute, conserve, and transfer energy, and specially designed parts and components therefor, that have: |
| (i) | Storage exceeding 30MJ; |
| (ii) | A discharge rate less than 3 seconds; and |
| (3) | Shipborne auxiliary systems for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) compartmentalization, over-pressurization and filtration systems, and specially designed parts and components therefor; |
| (4) | 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; SME |
| (5) | Any machinery, device, component, or equipment, including production, testing and inspection equipment, and tooling, specially designed for plants or facilities controlled in paragraph (e) of this section (see also § 120.5(c) of this subchapter for nuclear related controls); SME |
| (6) | 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); |
| (7) | 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 therefor; |
| (8) | Minesweeping and mine hunting equipment (including mine countermeasures equipment deployed by aircraft), and specially designed parts and components therefor; or |
| (9) | Any part, component, accessory, attachment, equipment, or system that: SME |
| (i) | Is classified; |
| (ii) | Contains classified software directly related to defense articles in this subchapter or 600 series items subject to the EAR; or |
| (g) | Technical data (see § 120.33 of this subchapter) and defense services (see § 120.32 of this subchapter) directly related to the defense articles described in paragraphs (a) through (f) of this category and classified technical data directly related to items controlled in ECCNs 8A609, 8B609, 8C609, and 8D609 and defense services using the classified technical data. (MT for technical data and defense services related to articles designated as such.) |
| (h) | -(w) [Reserved] |
| (x) | Commodities, software, and technical data subject to the EAR used in or with defense articles. |
Source: eCFR, version
2026-08-01, retrieved
2026-08-20T04:08:36+00:00.