PSC 1190: SPECIALIZED TEST AND HANDLING EQUIPMENT, NUCLEAR ORDNANCE — Federal Procurement Code

11 - NUCLEAR ORDNANCE L1: Weapons & Ammunition

Description

Specialized Test and Handling Equipment, Nuclear Ordnance

Includes

Specially designed trucks and trailers for nuclear ordnance; Specially designed slings and hoists; Operational, test, and setting devices, and cradles; Conditioning Kits and Sets, Controlled Environment.

Excludes

Hand tools; Instruments for use on both nuclear ordnance and other equipment; Basic types of electrical and electronic test instruments, including those specially designed, such as ammeters, voltmeters, ohmmeters, multimeters, and similar instruments, as shown in the indexes in the FSC.

Suggested adjacent classifications

PSC codes describe what the government buys. These related classifications help connect procurement codes to industries, commodities, and trade workflows.

Related NAICS industries

33392

Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing

4842

Specialized Freight Trucking

48422

Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Local

484220

Specialized Freight (except Used Goods) Trucking, Local

Related UNSPSC categories

26141801

Hot cell remote handling equipment

20121913

Well logging downhole test equipment

23152203

Engine or component test stands

25191520

Environmental test chamber

Official data

Feature	Description
Official name	Product Service Codes (PSC)
Maintained by	U.S. federal acquisition community / GSA PSC Manual
Purpose	Classifies what the government buys: products and services
Primary use	Federal procurement reporting, contract categorization, spend analysis
Code type	Mixed/unspecified

When do you need PSC 1190?

1 Use PSC 1190 when identifying the product or service category on a U.S. federal contract.

2 Use it when filtering opportunities or spending data in SAM.gov, FPDS, or USASpending.

3 Use it when comparing a procurement category against related NAICS industries or UNSPSC commodities.

4 Use it when a contracting workflow needs the purchased item classification rather than the supplier industry code.