Federal Supply Groups and Classes: FS Groups 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, and 60
FS Group 52 - Measuring Tools
FSC 5210 Measuring Tools, Craftsmen's (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes calipers; levels; micrometers; plumb bobs; precision tapes; squares; angle gages; center gages; depth gages; draw gages; drill point gages; fillet and radius gages; glaziers' gages; height gages (vernier); planer gages; rivet selector gages; saw tooth set gages; screw pitch gages; surface gages; telescoping gages; thickness gages; tube bead gages; tube flare gages; twist drill gages; twist drill and rod gages; twist drill and tap gages; taper-wire-thickness gages; wire gages; tool setting planer and shaper gages; gage blocks.
FSC 5220 Inspection Gages and Precision Layout Tools (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes go and not-go gages, including plug, ring, snap, thread, and length gages; profile gages; fixture gages; special inspection gages.
FSC 5280 Sets, Kits, and Outfits of Measuring Tools (Manufacturing SKUs)
FS Group 53 - Hardware and Abrasives
FSC 5310 Nuts and Washers (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes locknuts; eye nuts; plain nuts; castellated nuts; wing nuts; plate nuts; push on nuts; concave and convex washers; flat washers; keyed washers; lock washers; shouldered washers; split washers.
Excludes bearing thrust washers (fsc 3120); shims (fsc 5365); ring spacers (fsc 5365); plate spacers (fsc 5365); lock rings (fsc 5365).
FSC 5315 Nails, Machine Keys, and Pins (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes dowel pins, split pins; spikes; tacks; nonoffice type staples; machine keys; brads; shouldered pins; cotter pins; nails.
Excludes shafts (fsc 3040); lock keys (fsc 5340).
FSC 5325 Fastening Devices (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes eyelets; grommets; aircraft cowling fasteners; textile fasteners; retaining rings; threaded inserts.
FSC 5330 Packing and Gasket Materials (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes general purpose oil grease, air, liquid, gas, and chemical seals; oakum; prefabricated gaskets and seals designed for a single specific application.
Excludes O-rings (fsc 5331); bulk material items, such as; rubber, cork, and asbestos sheets and strips (fsg 93); liquid gasket materials (rtv, permatex, etc.) (fsg 80); rfi and emi seals and gaskets (fsc 5999), and all seal retainers.
FSC 5331 O-Ring (Manufacturing SKUs)
Excludes packing and gasket material (fsc 5330).
FSC 5335 Metal Screening (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes insect screening; industrial metal cloth; industrial metal mesh.
Excludes fencing (fsc 5660).
FSC 5340 Hardware, Commercial (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes access covers; bumpers; casters; cabinet and door hardware; clevises; hinges; latches; straps and strapping; turnbuckles; webbed straps.
Excludes weapons system hardware (fsc 5342).
FSC 5341 Brackets (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes angle brackets; double angle brackets; mounting brackets.
Excludes corner braces (fsc 5340); "t" braces (fsc 5340); mending plates (fsc 5340).
FSC 5342 Hardware, Weapon System (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes adapters; anchor plates and straps; anodes; bellows; couplings; control rods; access doors; fairleads; mounts; tie rods; yokes.
Excludes commercial hardware (fsc 5340).
FSC 5345 Disks and Stones, Abrasive (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes abrasive belts and belting; hones; abrasive wheels, multiapplication.
Excludes dental abrasives; abrasive cones, and other abrasive attachments for equipment.
FSC 5350 Abrasive Materials (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes cloth; papers; powders; abrasive polishing compounds; metal finishing abrasives; industrial diamonds; diamond dust; rouge.
FSC 5355 Knobs and Pointers (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes knobs, including calibrated knobs; dials, scale.
FSC 5360 Coil, Flat, Leaf, and Wire Springs (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes compression springs; torsion springs; leaf spring assemblies; flat springs; extension springs.
FSC 5365 Bushings, Rings, Shims, and Spacers (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes externally threaded rings; keyed and serrated lock rings; dee rings; instrument retaining rings; shim sets and assortments; plate spacers; ring spacers; sleeve spacers; stepped spacers; spacer sets and assortments; sleeve bushings; machine threaded bushings; machine threaded plugs.
Excludes sleeve bearings (fsc 3120); pipe threaded plugs (fsc 4730); piston rings (fsc 2520, 2805, 2810, 2815, 2825, 2990, 3040, 4310, and 4820); retaining rings (fsc 5325); shim stock (fsc 9515).
FS Group 54 - Prefabricated Structures and Scaffolding
FSC 5410 Prefabricated and Portable Buildings
Includes prefabricated panels; inflatable shelters; metal screens and metal windows.
FSC 5411 Rigid Wall Shelters
Includes expandable and nonexpandable shelters.
FSC 5419 Collective Modular Support System
FSC 5420 Bridges, Fixed and Floating
Includes special bridge erection equipment; bridge floats and pontoons; tramways; trestles.
Excludes pontoons and floating docks (fsc 1945).
FSC 5430 Storage Tanks
Includes assembled and unassembled tanks for storage only; enclosures for pressure and vacuum tanks; petroleum bulk storage tanks.
Excludes boiler tanks (fsc 4410); hot water tanks (fsc 4520).
FSC 5440 Scaffolding Equipment and Concrete Forms
Includes prefabricated concrete placing forms; builders' ladders and stepladders; suspension stages.
Excludes aircraft ladders (fsc 1730); fire fighting ladders (fsc 4210); maintenance ladders (fsc 4940); marine vessel ladders (fsc 2090); vehicle ladders (fsc 2540).
FSC 5445 Prefabricated Tower Structures
Includes power transmission towers; radar towers; searchlight towers; control towers; prefabricated tower components, such as anchor rails, tie rods, braces, steps, guy assemblies; specialized tower hardware.
FSC 5450 Miscellaneous Prefabricated Structures
Includes bleachers; grandstands.
FS Group 55 - Lumber, Millwork, Plywood, and Veneer
FSC 5510 Lumber and Related Basic Wood Materials
Includes dimensional lumber; wood flooring; mine timbers; poles; railroad ties; wood siding; molding; stakes.
Excludes millwork (fsc 5520); plywood and veneer (fsc 5530); prefabricated non-wood items (fsc 5670).
FSC 5520 Millwork
Includes door frames; doors; window frames; window sashes.
Excludes molding (fsc 5510); prefabricated non-wood items (fsc 5670).
FSC 5530 Plywood and Veneer
Includes plywood and veneered panels.
FS Group 56 - Construction and Building Materials
FSC 5610 Mineral Construction Materials, Bulk
Includes asphalt; cinders; gravel; lime; sand; rough dimension stone, including rubble; cement; ballast.
Excludes block, shaped; brick.
FSC 5620 Tile, Brick, and Block
Includes concrete building block; cinder block; slag brick; cut stone; cut and polished stone; ceramic floor and wall tile; architectural terra cotta; concrete slabs and grilles.
Excludes glass building block (fsc 9340)
FSC 5630 Pipe and Conduit, Nonmetallic
Includes concrete pipe and conduit; clay pipe and conduit for underground use; drain tile; nonmetallic pipe fittings for underground use.
Excludes nonmetallic pipe, conduit, and fittings for laboratory or electrical use; hose and tubing, flexible nonmetallic.
FSC 5640 Wallboard, Building Paper, and Thermal Insulation Materials
Includes paper building board; ceiling board; gypsum board; insulating board; plasterboard; soundproofing board; tar paper; wallpaper; mineral wool; glass wool batts; pipe covering.
Excludes electrical insulation materials.
FSC 5650 Roofing and Siding Materials
Includes roofing (all materials), including sheet metal; roofing felt; roll roofing; roofing tile; shingles.
Excludes tar paper; bulk sheet metal roofing and siding; wood siding.
FSC 5660 Fencing, Fences, Gates and Components
FSC 5670 Building Components, Prefabricated
Includes door frames; window frames; window sashes; eave troughs (gutters); gratings; grilles; shutters; fixed fire escapes; mounted partitions.
Excludes plumbing and associated components such as sinks; wallboard and items classified as furniture.
FSC 5675 Nonwood Construction Lumber and Related Materials
Includes nonwood dimensional lumber; flooring; special turning and carvings; nonwood veneer.
Excludes millwork and wood veneer (fscs 5520 and 5530); items specified as wooden (fsc 5510).
FSC 5680 Miscellaneous Construction Materials
Includes expanded metal lath; airplane landing mats; traction mats.
FS Group 58 - Communication, Detection, and Coherent Radiation Equipment
Note-excludes oscillator items which should be classified in fsc 5955 or 5963; fiber optic items which should be classified in group 60; electronic modules as defined under class 5963; and electrical cable, cord and wire assemblies, harnesses and sets, related to fsg 58 equipment (see fsc 5995). in group 58, more than in any other group, it frequently happens that the same name is listed as an index entry in each of several classes. in addition, that name may also appear as an entry in groups other than 58. each such entry refers to a distinctly different part or assembly, even though the different items have the same name. the listing of the same names in two or more classes indicates that, in one form, the part or assembly covered by the name is applicable to the equipment covered by one class, and in another form is applicable to the equipment covered by another class. for example, the item name coder, audio frequency is applicable to two distinctly different assemblies, one of which has an application in cryptologic equipment, covered by class 5810, and the other in radar equipment covered by class 5840. consequently the name coder, audio frequency is an entry under each of the two classes. when an item identification bears a name which is indexed under more than one class of group 58, or in group 58 and in some other group, the item will be classified in the same class as its next higher assembly in the manner described in the federal logistics information system (flis) procedures manual, dod 4100.39-M. also excluded from this group are data transmission and communications equipment such as terminals, sensors and other devices designed for use with a configuration of adpe.
FSC 5805 Telephone and Telegraph Equipment (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 5810 Communications Security Equipment and Components (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 5811 Other Cryptologic Equipment and Components (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 5815 Teletype and Facsimile Equipment (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes ticker tape and sigtot equipment.
FSC 5820 Radio and Television Communication Equipment, Except Airborne (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes telemetering equipment.
Excludes home type radio and television equipment.
FSC 5821 Radio and Television Communication Equipment, Airborne (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes telemetering equipment.
FSC 5825 Radio Navigation Equipment, Except Airborne (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes loran equipment; shoran equipment; direction finding equipment.
FSC 5826 Radio Navigation Equipment, Airborne (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes loran equipment; shoran equipment; direction finding equipment.
FSC 5830 Intercommunication and Public Address Systems, Except Airborne (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes wired audio systems; office type systems; shipboard systems; tank systems.
FSC 5831 Intercommunication and Public Address Systems, Airborne (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 5835 Sound Recording and Reproducing Equipment (Manufacturing SKUs)
Excludes phonographs, home type; dictating machines.
FSC 5836 Video Recording and Reproducing Equipment (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 5840 Radar Equipment, Except Airborne (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 5845 Underwater Sound Equipment (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes sonar equipment; underwater listening equipment; sonobuoys; sonobuoy launchers; fathometers; sofar equipment.
FSC 5850 Visible and Invisible Light Communication Equipment (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes heliographs.
FSC 5855 Night Vision Equipment, Emitted and Reflected Radiation (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes sighting and observation devices, target detectors and locators, remote viewing systems utilizing heat radiation emitted from object(s), associated radiation sources, image converters and image intensifiers, optical cells and other components designed for night vision equipment. holders and lens used with infrared equipment are also included in this fsc.
Excludes optical sighting and observation devices which incorporate both day and night viewing characteristics within an integral unit, nonnight vision type items designed for use with guided missiles, communications, or laboratory equipment, and optical elements, such as lens, prisms, windows.
FSC 5860 Stimulated Coherent Radiation Devices, Components, and Accessories (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 5865 Electronic Countermeasures, Counter-Countermeasures and Quick Reaction Capability Equipment (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 5895 Miscellaneous Communication Equipment (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes modems.
Excludes electronic countermeasures equipment.
FS Group 59 - Electrical and Electronic Equipment Components
Note-mounting hardware, included in classes of this group, includes such specially designed items as brackets, holders, retainers, etc. excluded from classes in this group are such hardware items as screws (class 5305), bolts (class 5306), studs (class 5307), washers (class 5310), rivets (class 5320), and other common items indexed to specific classes, other than in group 59. the fsc indexes and structure will govern the classification of items used on or with mounting hardware cited above.
FSC 5905 Resistor (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes varistors; resistive ballast tubes; rheostats; resistor networks; resistor mounting hardware; thermistors./
Excludes resistance wire./
FSC 5910 Capacitors (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes interference filter capacitors; capacitor mounting hardware.
Excludes semiconductor devices and associated hardware.
FSC 5920 Fuses, Arrestors, Absorbers, and Protectors (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes fuseholders; fuse boxes; fuse posts; fuse links; fuse blocks; current limiters; corona balls; electrostatic dischargers.
Excludes circuit breakers.
FSC 5925 Circuit Breakers (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes circuit breakers and cutouts.
Excludes relays.
FSC 5930 Switches (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes rotary, knife, toggle, push button, mercury, thermostatic, and differential pressure switches.
Excludes switchgear.
FSC 5935 Connectors, Electrical (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes plugs; jacks; receptacles, electronic component sockets and associated accessories
Excludes interconnectors, fiber optic
FSC 5940 Lugs, Terminals, and Terminal Strips (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes binding posts; battery clips; stud terminals; test clips.
Excludes caps, electrical; clips, electrical; and contacts, electrical.
FSC 5945 Relays and Solenoids (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes electromagnetic actuators.
Excludes contractors.
FSC 5950 Coils and Transformers (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes coils, except ignition and magneto; coil assemblies; reactors; transformers.
FSC 5955 Oscillators and Piezoelectric Crystals (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes crystal units, processed unmounted crystals, crystal controlled oscillators and noncrystal controlled oscillators
Excludes crystal controlled oscillators and noncrystal controlled oscillators which meet the definition of the term "electronic module" as defined for fsc 5963 and microcircuits
FSC 5960 Electron Tubes and Associated Hardware (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes rectifying tubes; photoelectric tubes; electron vibrator tubes.
Excludes transistors; tube sockets; X-ray tubes; semiconductor devices and associated hardware.
FSC 5961 Semiconductor Devices and Associated Hardware (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes semiconductor assemblies; semiconductor diodes; semiconductor rectifiers, semiconductor thyristors; transistors; unitized semiconductors; associated hardware except sockets.
Excludes microcircuits; optoelectronic devices and associated hardware.
FSC 5962 Microcircuits, Electronic (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes integrated circuit devices; integrated circuit modules, integrated electronic devices: hybrid, magnetic, molecular, opto-electronic, and thin film.
Excludes single circuit elements such as capacitors; resistors; diodes and transistors; printed circuit boards and circuit card assemblies; and filters and networks.
FSC 5963 Electronic Modules (Manufacturing SKUs)
Excludes microcircuits; electronic test equipment plug-in units.
FSC 5965 Headsets, Handsets, Microphones and Speakers (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 5970 Electrical Insulators and Insulating Materials (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes tube, knob, cleat, strain, and standoff insulators; feed thru insulators; bead insulators; varnish cambric tape; friction tape.
FSC 5975 Electrical Hardware and Supplies (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes conduit; raceways; face plates; condulets; outlet and junction boxes; pole line hardware, not elsewhere classifiable.
FSC 5977 Electrical Contact Brushes and Electrodes (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes brushes for electrical rotating equipment; carbon stock for brushes; brush arm and holders; lighting electrodes.
Excludes anodes; cathodes; welding electrodes.
FSC 5980 Optoelectronic Devices and Associated Hardware (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes optoelectronic devices and assemblies which display numeric, alpha-numeric, symbolic, or graphic information, emitters, and nondisplay optoelectronic devices, such as couplers, detectors, and switches which perform an active function in an electronic system%
Excludes electric lighting fixtures, lamps, and associated hardware%
FSC 5985 Antennas, Waveguides, and Related Equipment (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes aerials; masts; tower equipment; attenuators; couplers; transmission lines.
Excludes tower structures.
FSC 5990 Synchros and Resolvers (Manufacturing SKUs)
Excludes synchro systems; servo mechanisms.
FSC 5995 Cable, Cord, and Wire Assemblies: Communication Equipment (Manufacturing SKUs)
Excludes cable assemblies, fiber optic.
FSC 5996 Amplifiers (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes audio amplifiers, complementary amplifiers, amplifiers, operational amplifiers, power amplifiers, radio frequency amplifiers, signal amplifiers, video amplifiers, and magnetic amplifiers.
Excludes multi-functional items such as amplifier-detector, amplifier-mixer and microcircuit devices.
FSC 5998 Electrical and Electronic Assemblies, Boards, Cards, and Associated Hardware (Manufacturing SKUs)
Excludes circuit card and electronic component assemblies which can be identified to a more definitive approved item name.
FSC 5999 Miscellaneous Electrical and Electronic Components (Manufacturing SKUs)
Includes permanent magnets and magnetostriction elements; caps, clips, and contacts, electrical.
FS Group 60 - Fiber Optics Materials, Components, Assemblies, and Accessories
Note- fiber optics is a general term used to describe the function where optical energy (i.E., light/laser driven rays) is guided to another location through fiber(s). this group includes fiber optic items such as parts, materials and devices used for communications, data transmission, or illumination, excludes imaging devices under fsg 65 (medical); hand tools under fsg 51; and electrical, electronic and optical instruments under fsg 66 (instruments).
FSC 6004 Rotary Joints
FSC 6005 Couplers, Splitters, and Mixers
FSC 6006 Attenuators
FSC 6007 Filters
FSC 6008 Optical Multiplexers/Demultiplexers
FSC 6020 Fiber Optic Cable Assemblies and Harnesses (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 6026 Fiber Optic Receivers
FSC 6029 Optical Repeaters
FSC 6031 Integrated Optical Circuits
FSC 6032 Fiber Optic Light Sources and Photo Detectors (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 6033 Fiber Optic Photo Detectors
FSC 6034 Fiber Optic Modulators/Demodulators
FSC 6035 Fiber Optic Light Transfer and Image Transfer Devices (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 6040 Fiber Optic Sensors
FSC 6050 Fiber Optic Passive Devices
FSC 6060 Fiber Optic Interconnectors (Manufacturing SKUs)
Excludes electrical connectors
FSC 6070 Fiber Optic Accessories and Supplies (Manufacturing SKUs)
FSC 6099 Miscellaneous Fiber Optic Components (Manufacturing SKUs)