Defense Article

22 CFR 120.3

Any item or technical data designated in 22 CFR 121.1. The policy described in 120.3 is applicable to designations of additional items. This term includes technical data recorded or stored in any physical form, models, mockups or other items that reveal technical data directly relating to items designated in 22 CFR 121.1. It does not include basic marketing information on function or purpose or general system descriptions

Any article that is specifically designed, developed, configured, adapted, or modified for a military application, and

1. does not have predominant civil applicatio, and
2. does not have performance equivalent (defined by form, fit and function) to those of an article or service used for civil applications;
3. is specifically designed, developed, configured, adapted, or modified for a military application, and has significant military or intelligence applicability (examples are satellites, spacecraft and their subsystems, fully field-deployable systems for military use, and space-qualified for radiation hardened microcircuits); or
4. is on the US Munitions List (USML, the US State Department ITAR list).