ECCN 7E004
NSMTATOther technology as follows .
What This ECCN Covers
ECCN 7E004 controls specified "other technology" for the development or production of navigation and avionics items — for example flight-control technology, GNSS anti-jam techniques, and inertial-system integration know-how defined in the entry. As a heavily itemized "E" entry, it governs intangible know-how, including "deemed exports" to foreign nationals, and is controlled for National Security, Missile Technology, and Anti-Terrorism reasons.
Who needs to check this?
Avionics and navigation R&D teams, flight-control and GNSS engineers, and firms sharing related development or production technology across borders.
Compliance tip
7E004 is itemized — only the specific technologies it lists are controlled, so map your know-how to the exact sub-paragraph. Missile Technology limits license exceptions, and emails, specs, training, and foreign-national access ("deemed exports") all require authorization analysis.
Items Covered
- a."Technology" for the "development" or "production" of any of the following:
- 2. Air data systems based on surface static data only, i.e., which dispense with conventional air data probes;
- 3. Three dimensional displays for "aircraft";
- 5. Electric actuators (i.e., electromechanical, electrohydrostatic and integrated actuator package) specially designed for 'primary flight control';
- 6. 'Flight control optical sensor array' specially designed for implementing "active flight control systems"; or
- 7. "DBRN" systems designed to navigate underwater, using sonar or gravity databases, that provide a positioning "accuracy" equal to or less (better) than 0.4 nautical miles;
- b."Development" "technology", as follows, for "active flight control systems" (including "fly-by-wire systems" or "fly-by-light systems"):
- 1. Photonic-based "technology" for sensing "aircraft" or flight control component state, transferring flight control data, or commanding actuator movement, "required" for "fly-by-light systems" "active flight control systems";
- 3. Real-time algorithms to analyze component sensor information to predict and preemptively mitigate impending degradation and failures of components within an "active flight control system";
- 4. Real-time algorithms to identify component failures and reconfigure force and moment controls to mitigate "active flight control system" degradations and failures;
- 5. Integration of digital flight control, navigation and propulsion control data, into a digital flight management system for "total control of flight";
- 7. "Technology" "required" for deriving the functional requirements for "fly-by-wire systems" having all of the following:
- 7.a. 'Inner-loop' airframe stability controls requiring loop closure rates of 40 Hz or greater; and
- 7.b. Having any of the following:
- 7.b.1. Corrects an aerodynamically unstable airframe, measured at any point in the design flight envelope, that would lose recoverable control if not corrected within 0.5 seconds;
- 7.b.2. Couples controls in two or more axes while compensating for 'abnormal changes in aircraft state';
- 7.b.3. Performs the functions specified in 7E004.b.5; or
- 7.b.4. Enables "aircraft" to have stable controlled flight, other than during take-off or landing, at greater than 18 degrees angle of attack, 15 degrees side slip, 15 degrees/second pitch or yaw rate, or 90 degrees/second roll rate;
- 8. "Technology" "required" for deriving the functional requirements of "fly-by-wire systems" to achieve all of the following:
- 8.a. No loss of control of the "aircraft" in the event of a consecutive sequence of any two individual faults within the "fly-by-wire system"; and
- 8.b. Probability of loss of control of the "aircraft" being less (better) than 1 × 10−9 failures per flight hour;
- c."Technology" for the "development" of helicopter systems, as follows:
- 1. Multi-axis fly-by-wire or fly-by-light controllers, which combine the functions of at least two of the following into one controlling element:
- 1.a. Collective controls;
- 1.b. Cyclic controls;
- 1.c. Yaw controls;
- 2. "Circulation-controlled anti-torque or circulation-controlled direction control systems";
- 3. Rotor blades incorporating 'variable geometry airfoils', for use in systems using individual blade control.
4 items reserved by BIS (not shown)
Control Reasons
Items controlled for national security reasons under multilateral export control regimes.
Items controlled under the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR).
Items controlled for anti-terrorism reasons. Most items on the CCL have AT controls.
Disclaimer
This information is for reference only. For official classifications, consult BIS or a qualified export control professional.