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Appendix I
Appendix I
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The first three sections of the paper describe, respectively, how technical advisory committees, technical working groups, and technical task groups function. The final section discusses problems with the current technical advisory system and recommends changes in the system in order to increase the participation of industry experts in decision making on U.S.
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The TACs are also involved in the review of applications for U.S. export licenses and applications for approval by the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom)
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For instance, an industry representative from one of the TACs has been participating in CoCom negotiations in Paris. (This is such a new concept that travel reimbursement has not been authorized, and the industry representatives on a TAC must pay their own travel expenses.)
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A Defense Science Board task force chaired by Dr. Bucy proposed that the Department of Defense maintain a list of strategically critical elements, such as arrays of know-how; keystone manufacturing, inspection, and test equipment; keystone materials; goods accompanied by sophisticated know-how; and items of intrinsic military utility.
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Inclusion of industry representatives in the TWGs provides for an interchange between industrial experts and technical experts from the gov ernment. Currently, there are 12 TWGs; their organization parallels that of the 12 technical task groups (discussed below)
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Each TWG is responsible for ensuring that action is taken to prepare and forward to the appropriate technical task group technical proposals that implement its portion of the MCTL.2 TWG Membership and Application Process The chairperson for each TWG is appointed by the IDA director of critical technologies and has overall responsibility for the operation of that TWG and any subgroup or subcommittee formed to support it. This general responsibility entails many specific responsibilities, including staffing the TWG with knowledgeable and technically competent members from industry, academia, and the government.
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13. Track items of interest to ensure that CoCom decisions are subsequently reflected in changes to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, the Commodity Control List, and the list of nuclear equipment and materials
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This does not mean that the U.S. government should stop recruiting industry experts to participate in the TWGs, but it should be made clear that the key entity for industry input into the CoCom list review process is the TAC.
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Since there are at least two or three, and many times a half-dozen or more, major firms doing business in each of the major categories of the Commodity Control List (computers, telecommunications, electronic components, machine tools, and so on) , it would seem unfair and arbitrary to single out an expert from one firm to be the industry advisor to the U.S.
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The simplest solution to this problem would have been to communicate frankly with the members of the SEMITAC, to tell them that it was highly unlikely that their recommendations would be acted on. Instead, the SEMITAC met several times a year, took up the time and effort of some of the leading semiconductor engineers of some of the leading manufacturers in the country, such as Intel and Hewlett-Packard, yet failed to have any visible result in terms of either list revisions or foreign availability decontrols (with the notable exception of the famous silicon wafer saw decontrol in 19871.
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Almost as bad, the political clearance process slows still further an already long security clearance process. If the TAC chairpersons are to be upgraded and integrated into the Commerce Department/BXA policy process and have a voice in the State Department list review process, it makes sense to retain the political clearance process for those individuals.
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The changes that have been outlined above would be quite easy to implement. They are fully in keeping with the legislative intent of the Export Administration Act and the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 with regard to the consultation process for control list changes and CoCom list review proposals.
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