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Purpose. To establish Navy policy and responsibilities for managing and executing the protection of high-value units (HVU) during restricted-waters transit. Major changes in this instruction include restricting the definition of HVU to nuclear powered warships and delegating the decision to protect other (non-nuclear powered) ship types to fleet commanders (FLTCDR). This instruction is a complete revision and should be reviewed in its entirety.

Applicability. This instruction outlines the Navy's HVU transit protection operations policy and supplements guidance contained in references (a) through (f). Transit protection system operations for ballistic missile submarines fall outside the scope of this instruction and are discussed per references (g) through (i). Protection for unmanned, defueled nuclear powered ships and reactor compartment disposal packages shall be conducted per reference (j). Protection for moored training ships shall be conducted per reference (k).