Restricted party screening for vendors, candidates, and third parties.

Restricted parties are spread across Commerce, Treasury, State, GSA, DoD, DHS, and Congress — each with its own format, cadence, and legal basis.

Public lists show only who is restricted today. When you need to prove what a list said on the day you screened, the record is already gone.

A bare name hit on a common name is not defensible on its own. Reviewers need corroboration, provenance, and a documented rationale.

OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List

OFAC Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List — administered under 31 CFR Ch. V; property blocked and U.S.-person dealings prohibited.

State/DDTC (AECA) Debarred Parties

State/DDTC Debarred Parties — Arms Export Control Act; 22 CFR 127.7. Persons barred from participating in the export of defense articles or services.

BIS Military End-User (MEU) List

BIS Military End-User (MEU) List — Export Administration Regulations, 15 CFR Part 744, Supplement No. 7. License required for exports to listed military end users.

BIS Denied Persons List (DPL)

BIS Denied Persons List — Export Administration Regulations; 15 CFR 764.3(a)(2). Export privileges denied by a BIS order.

State Nonproliferation Sanctions (ISN)

State Nonproliferation Sanctions — Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation; sanctions under the nonproliferation statutes (INKSNA; Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act; EO 12938).

Treasury Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (NS-CMIC) List

OFAC Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (NS-CMIC) List — Executive Order 13959 as amended by EO 14032; U.S.-person purchase or sale of covered securities prohibited. Reflects Treasury's CURRENT living list (distinct from the frozen EO 14032 Annex).

BIS Entity List

BIS Entity List — Export Administration Regulations, 15 CFR Part 744, Supplement No. 4. License required for exports and reexports to listed entities.

BIS Unverified List (UVL)

BIS Unverified List — Export Administration Regulations; 15 CFR 744.15. Parties whose bona fides BIS could not verify; heightened due-diligence, license exceptions suspended.

OFAC Sectoral Sanctions Identifications (SSI) List

OFAC Sectoral Sanctions Identifications List — Executive Order 13662 (Ukraine/Russia-related); transactions restricted by directive.

OFAC Non-SDN Palestinian Legislative Council (NS-PLC) List

OFAC Non-SDN Palestinian Legislative Council List — administered under 31 CFR Ch. V; transactions restricted.

OFAC Non-SDN Menu-Based Sanctions (NS-MBS) List

OFAC Non-SDN Menu-Based Sanctions List — menu-based sanctions imposed under the applicable sanctions authorities.

OFAC Correspondent Account/Payable-Through Account Sanctions (CAPTA) List

OFAC CAPTA List — foreign financial institutions for which opening or maintaining a U.S. correspondent or payable-through account is prohibited or conditioned.

Section 889 Covered Telecommunications Equipment

Section 889(f)(3) of the FY2019 NDAA (Pub. L. 115-232); implemented at 2 CFR 200.216 — covered telecom/video-surveillance equipment (Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, Dahua and their subsidiaries/affiliates).

Section 5949 Covered Semiconductor Products and Services

Section 5949 of the FY2023 NDAA (Pub. L. 117-263) — prohibition on federal procurement of covered semiconductor products/services from SMIC, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC), and their subsidiaries/affiliates.

FCC Covered List

FCC Covered List — Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 (Pub. L. 116-124); 47 CFR 1.50002. Communications equipment/services deemed an unacceptable national-security risk (Huawei, ZTE, Hytera, Hikvision, Dahua, Kaspersky, and CCP-controlled carriers).

DoD Section 1260H Chinese Military Companies (CMC List)

Section 1260H of the FY2021 NDAA (Pub. L. 116-283) — Chinese military companies operating in the United States.

UFLPA Entity List

Uniform Forced Labor Prevention Act (Pub. L. 117-78), Sec. 2(d)(2)(B) — FLETF consolidated entity list; goods presumed made with forced labor and barred under 19 U.S.C. 1307.

CBP Withhold Release Orders & Findings

19 U.S.C. 1307 — CBP Withhold Release Orders (WROs) & Findings; merchandise made wholly or in part with forced labor is barred from importation. Entity-level subjects (named companies/vessels) are screened; commodity-only/region-wide orders are excluded from name matching.

Executive Order 14032 Annex (Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies)

Executive Order 14032 of June 3, 2021 (86 FR 30145) — Annex, Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies. Treasury administers the population as the Non-SDN Chinese Military-Industrial Complex Companies (NS-CMIC) List; U.S.-person securities investment prohibited.

DoD Section 1286 List (Foreign Institutions of Concern)

Section 1286 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Pub. L. 115-232), as amended — DoD list of foreign institutions engaging in problematic activity (FY2024 update, Table 1). Institutions in the People's Republic of China, Russian Federation, and other countries whose collaboration DoD-funded researchers are cautioned against. The reaffirmed FY2023 foreign talent-recruitment programs (Table 2) are screened on the researcher/person side, not in entity screening.

DOJ Enforcement Actions (extracted defendants)

Named defendants (persons + entities) extracted from DOJ criminal/civil enforcement press releases (api.justice.gov). Each entry cites the press-release URL, date, district/component, charge summary, action type, and our archived snapshot of the release text.

SAM.gov Exclusions

System for Award Management Exclusions — suspension & debarment under 2 CFR 180 / FAR Subpart 9.4.

Enforcement-action coverage legacy tools miss

Beyond the standard restricted-party lists, Vigilarx extracts named defendants — persons and entities — from U.S. Department of Justice criminal and civil enforcement press releases. Each hit carries the action type, charge categories, and a link to the press release. No legacy restricted-party screening tool covers this.

Versioned snapshots = point-in-time defensibility

Every source is mirrored locally as a dated, content-hashed snapshot, and every screen pins to the snapshots it ran against. A clear result is a provable, point-in-time record — because CSL and SAM.gov expose only active entries, these snapshots are the historical record you can stand behind in an audit.

A defensibility record for every match

Each potential match expands to its full per-signal breakdown — exact, alias, token, Jaro–Winkler, and trigram scores — plus country/address corroboration, the exact source entry, the authority citation, and the snapshot version and date. Nothing is a black box.

Continuous monitoring, not one-and-done

Enroll parties in continuous monitoring so new snapshots are re-screened as the lists change. A party that clears today is re-checked automatically when a source is updated — with the same defensibility record on every pass.

Mirror

Federal restricted-party sources are captured locally as dated, content-hashed snapshots — never per-query external calls.

Screen

Screen a single party or a CSV batch against the latest snapshots. Matches are ranked by confidence band with a full score breakdown.

Adjudicate

Analysts clear (with a documented rationale), escalate, or confirm each match. False positives are suppressed with a recorded basis — all to an immutable audit trail.

Monitor

Enroll parties in continuous monitoring. As sources change, monitored parties are re-screened and new matches surface for review.