High-Stakes Aviation U.S.-Japan Technology Linkages in Transport Aircraft (1994) / Chapter Skim
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and a broad range of suppliers face depressed commercial markets, cuts in defense spending, and intense international competition. As markets, capital, and technological capabilities become increasingly global, international strategic alliances and other cross-border linkages have become a familiar feature of this industry.
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Japanese industry has attained world-class capabilities in manufacturing aircraft components such as fuselage panels, thick and complex composite structures, long shafts for aircraft engines, and primary actuation. Advanced technologies including processes utilizing five-axis machines driven by design data bases are combined with a meticulous approach to manufacturing practice to achieve high quality, low cost, and reduced cycle time.
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Japan's policy and business environment allows industry to gain maximum leverage from international alliances, resulting in a gradual upgrading of independent technological capabilities and a diffusion of these skills throughout the manufacturing network of primes and suppliers. The Japanese aircraft industry does not carry out full independent integration of commercial airframes, engines, or avionics, but it has achieved increasing independence and growing technological strength by promoting international linkages.
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While Japan does not have offset requirements or other formal market barriers, U.S. manufacturers selling to Japan feel informal pressure to source there in order to enhance access to Japanese airlines, and some have found it difficult to participate in the Japanese market without a joint venture with a Japanese .
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technological leadership, revitalizing U.S. manufacturing capabilities, encouraging mutually beneficial interaction with Japan, ensuring a level playing field for international competition, and developing a shared U.S.
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Encouraging Mutually Beneficial Interaction with Japan The environment surrounding U.S.-Japan linkages has evolved significantly, demanding a new approach to ensure that the benefits of cooperation are maximized and the risks are managed. As part of its activities to promote greater reciprocity in the transfer of aircraft technology between the United States and international partners including Japan a private sector effort should be launched to identify critical technologies, establish guidelines covering the transfer of commercial aerospace technology, and periodically assess international technology transfers.
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, composed of knowledgeable leaders from industry, academia, and elsewhere, reporting to the National Economic Council or an interagency group of senior officials. The committee believes that the stature of its membership coupled with its strategic reporting level would help ensure knowledgeable input from the private sector to government councils, as well as a higher likelihood of a coordinated approach for an industry where the United States needs to retain world leadership.
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