PSC 8470: ARMOR, PERSONAL — Federal Procurement Code

84 - CLOTHING, INDIVIDUAL EQUIPMENT, INSIGNA, AND JEWELRY L1: Clothing, Textiles & Subsistence S&E

Description

Armor, Personal

Includes

Clothing specially designed for use as personal armor.

Excludes

all specialized flight clothing and accessories which may contain ballistic resistant properties as a secondary function. Excludes special purpose clothing wherein the primary function is for purpose other than ballistic protection.

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

8114

Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance

81149

Other Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance

811490

Other Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance

42413

Industrial and Personal Service Paper Merchant Wholesalers

Related UNSPSC categories

25111805

Personal motorized watercraft

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 8470?

1 Use PSC 8470 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.