Highly Controlled Items

Contact the Research Security and Export Control Office should a purchase request or intended shipment appear to fall into any of the following categories:

  • Military aircraft (including surveillance, aerial mapping)
  • Inertial navigation systems, inertial measurement units (IMUs), Altitude and Heading Reference Systems (AHRS)
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs/drones)
  • Ground effect machines
  • Electronic intelligence, surveillance, or monitoring systems (and systems to counteract these)
  • Infrared (IR) sensors, focal plane arrays
  • Imagine intensification / image intensifiers
  • Thermal Imaging cameras, night sighting
  • Expensive Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
  • Protective personnel equipment (including body armor, radar/infrared [IR]-resistant clothing)
  • Weapons: side-arms, shotguns, silencers, guns, flame throwers, ammunition
  • Missiles, rockets, launch vehicles
  • Advanced composite ablative materials
  • Bombs, mines: equipment for detecting/detonating
  • Explosives, propellants, incendiary agents, energetic materials
  • Amphibious vehicles
  • Military vehicles (including underwater sound equipment, radar, military computers)
  • Carbon/carbon billets and preforms with 3D reinforcement
  • Carbon/carbon and metal matrix composites
  • Chemical agents (nerve agents, vesicant agents, incapacitating agents) and their precursors; tear gases, defoliants; equipment to handle or protect against these
  • Spacecraft, including CubeSats and other satellites
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Military radiation detection/measurement
  • Directed energy weapons (laser, particle beam, radio)
  • Submersible vessels (manned or unmanned, tethered or untethered)
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